🍂🍻 Apptoberfest discussion: Apps for ALL teams

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Hi Community! It’s time for the third and final discussion for Apptoberfest '24: Apps for ALL teams 🎉

Over the last two weeks, we have discussed apps for Marketing and Business teams, respectively. But what about all the other types of teams out there using apps with Atlassian tools? IT, Support, Engineering, etc. There are several team types that fall into this bucket.

What we want to know is, what are your favorite apps that can be used across ALL teams? Are there any Marketplace Apps that stand out as being particularly helpful for several team types? What makes them so great?

Let us know in the comments!

Not sure what Apptoberfest is? Learn about this month-long event here. ⬅️ As a reminder if you’re going for the “Bountiful Bavarian” badge, joining these weekly discussions is how to do it. Here are the other 2 discussions you’ll want to take part in before the end of October!

• Apps for Marketing Teams

• Apps for Business Teams

[Alberto Estévez]

🍻🎃 Crmble for Jira: More Than Just Business – It’s an Apptoberfest Treat! 🎃🍻

You might think that Crmble for Jira, being a CRM solution, is all about the serious world of business. But hold onto your steins, folks! We firmly believe that the way we handle email integration with Jira issues can be a game-changer for all kinds of teams and use cases. That’s why we’re bringing our proposal to the apps group for teams of every flavor – just in time for Apptoberfest! And hey, with Halloween around the corner, there’s more than one trick (and treat!) up our sleeve. 🎃👻

https://youtube.com/shorts/UQ7Erzb2nlI?si=wSYuRc-LSGaLnV2q

So, what’s on tap with Crmble for Jira? 🍺 We’re serving up the ability to filter email conversations with specific contacts. Just link a contact to a Jira card with their email address, and voilà! You’ll automatically see all past and future emails with that person neatly organized in the email tab. No more spooky email hunts – everything’s in one place, ready for you to pick up the conversation right where you left off.

But wait, there’s more! As a value-add, we also offer customizable message templates that you can tweak with variables. Handy, right?

We believe many Jira issues come with a trail of emails, and this is a great way to keep everything connected in one central hub. Google and Microsoft accounts supported!

From a business or marketing perspective, whenever you add a contact to a Jira card, it’s recorded as a deal. You can assign value to these deals, mark them as won or lost, and through Crmble for Jira’s dashboard, track deals by project and even check out statistics on your wins.

And that’s just a small appetizer of Crmble for Jira’s tastiest features! 🍂👻

Now, let’s raise a glass and celebrate Apptoberfest the Crmble way! 🍻

[YY Brother]

Hi @Whitney Nicholes 

I've recently developed two Apps of Gamification category, which are for all teams.

• Collaboration Champion for Jira App, applicable to Jira, JPD & JSM products: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1235193/collaboration-champion-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview
• Collaboration Champion for Confluence App: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1235555/collaboration-champion-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

Value Proposition

Enhance team engagement and productivity through gamified collaboration, transforming teamwork into a rewarding experience.

Clicking on a team or member name in the leaderboards takes you directly to their profile on Atlassian Home or Atlas. As we know, the team directory is a crucial part of Atlassian’s System of Work. From there, you can view a member’s recent activities related to Jira issues, Confluence content, as well as their Goals, Projects, and team structure. These features are lightweight yet offer innovative, future-ready solutions. It’s a great way to keep your teams engaged and collaborating seamlessly.

If you’re curious, give it a try and see how it can enhance your team’s collaboration.

Thanks,

YY Bro

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Whitney Nicholes keeping Confluence pages update to date is a team effort not matter what the space is used for. At least key data like if change the name of something to avoid mass confusion.

A suite of tools to bulk edit across a space is why we built Space Content Manager.

PS can enable/disable features, even by user or group

[Stu Lees ️ REVYZ]

Woop woop! 🍻 the team at REVYZ have been waiting for this week!! 🍻  our apptoberfest demo is inbound! 

[Brant Schroeder]

@Whitney Nicholes choosing just one is hard.  I love Tempo apps since everyone can use them.  My favorite is scriptrunner.  

[Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_]

Here are some standout apps that work wonders across all teams:

🚀 Mantra: Transform your Confluence into a social intranet for your entire organization! With personalized dashboards, event management, and seamless integration with Confluence, it's perfect for building strong team connections—whether you're collaborating across departments or keeping remote workers in the loop.

🎨 Aura: Design beautiful, engaging pages in Confluence with buttons, panels, dividers, and more! Whether you're working in Marketing or Support, Aura helps you create visually stunning content that every team member will appreciate, no matter their role.

💡 Karma: The ultimate page builder for Confluence! With 200+ templates and an intuitive drag-and-drop editor, Karma makes it easy for ALL teams to create engaging pages in no time. Perfect for onboarding, documentation, or even project management. The best thing? It's completely FREE.

These apps help boost communication, collaboration, and creativity across your organization—no matter the team. 

[Stephen_Lugton]

Thanks for all the suggestions, now to find some time to look at all the apps you've suggested

[Susan Waldrip]

Regardless of the customers you support, everyone should have a robust, dependable, and secure backup, restore, and disaster recovery capability. I did a lot of research for this, and landed on Revyz's Data Manager for Jira add-on. (Note: I have no affiliation with Revyz, I'm just a really impressed customer!) Easy to use, based on solid security protocols and SOC2 compliant, backs up and restores both configurations and issues according to your choices, stores backups off-site, and provides tons of information and features that I use to troubleshoot problems and review our site's health. One important feature that's sometimes overlooked in researching apps is customer support; I have to say Revyz is outstanding in this department! Every time I've had a question or suggestion, their support team has replied within a few hours (time/day differences considered) and worked with me until the question is answered. They're also really receptive to suggestions for their add-ons, and have implemented a couple of mine and followed up to let me know. Pretty cool!

The scheduled backups and Cleanup tool have saved me significant time -- I've been able to review what is available to delete, choose what I want, and then delete multiple schemes, screens, etc. at once rather then deleting them one by one in JSM (and it won't let me delete anything that's in use, with I REALLY appreciate!).

I also use the Site Insights feature to review the status of config elements of the site, and I can click on any of the elements to review and download the metadata for each:

There's a free trial for it, the price is affordable (which helped us be able to get it), and with all the apps/add-ons I looked at for disaster recovery (and there are some really good ones out there), this was the best bang for our buck!

[Frankie C_]

Tempo and Structure - both play nicely in our stack, while extending/enabling further insights into our work and allocations. Highly recommend both!

[Kalin U]

@Susan Waldrip , thanks for your review of Revyz Data Manager. It looks like a really well-thought solution, even though it's more for Jira admins.

I would also recommend eazyBI for reporting on data. It's an awesome tool for every team.

[Susan Waldrip]

We've found the Smart Jira Configuration app to be really handy. It produces a report of an entire project's configuration in multiple formats (HTML, Word, Excel, Confluence, PDF, and JSON). It's a lot of info, but I've used it to review the details of config elements that are giving me trouble and it's helped me better understand how Jira/JSM manage and connect various config elements. It's also a good reference when I'm restoring something that I haven't worked with in a while. And Eisonesoft's support has been excellent.

There's only one screen for the app, which adds all the config items. I just remove the CIs I don't want to include in the config report and specify the project.

When I click the Generate doc button, I get a table of contents with links to the report sections, and within many of the sections are links to the actual config screens in Jira/JSM.

[Sena Demir _ALMBASE_]

🍂🍻Multi Level & Tree Fields🎃 for all teams!

Multi Level & Tree Field allows you to manage select lists in multi-level and tree formats. There is no limit to the levels! Manage your service catalog within Jira!

🍻Compatible with JSM Portal!

JSM Portal: 

Request Demo🍂

Bests! ✨

[정혜인]

One standout app that every team can benefit from is the 📌Flexible Space Navigation for Confluence📌. This app provides several advantages that enhance team collaboration and efficiency, making it particularly valuable across various contexts:

Easy Hierarchical Navigation: Teams can navigate through complex structures with ease thanks to its hierarchical tree structure. This feature allows users to intuitively browse through pages and links, making it simple to identify and access the needed information quickly, all in an optimal layout.

Personalized User Experience: The app allows users to customize navigation menus to meet individual or team requirements. Teams can build their unique navigation environments with default and personalized settings, ensuring an optimal user experience that aligns with the various roles and work styles within the team.

Efficient Menu Management: With simplified menu configuration and convenient settings, managing space becomes more efficient. The app enhances visual clarity and maximizes management efficiency with built-in icons and user-customizable settings. This reduces the time spent on managing spaces, allowing teams to focus on their priorities.

Enhanced Work Efficiency: Utilizing easy-to-use navigation bars and menu lists, the app significantly boosts work efficiency. Real-time dropdown menus and shortcuts allow team members to quickly locate necessary information without disrupting their workflow, ensuring a smoother and more productive working experience.

Overall, "Flexible Space Navigation for Confluence" fosters a more organized and efficient working environment, making it a powerful tool for teams seeking streamlined navigation and management capabilities in their collaborative workspaces.

Check out the app screen in the demo video! 👉 https://youtu.be/59Uaj8Q7Zs8?si=BXUxx3tQVduL_b36

👇Cheer for our app !!👇

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/App-Central-articles/Apptoberfest-2024-Find-your-way-in-Confluence-with-Flexible/ba-p/2845605#M10078

[Pawel Ciereszynski _Eyzee_]

@Brant Schroeder why do you love Tempo? What does Tempo offer that similar solutions don’t?

[Stuart White]

We at arvato systems love the Backbone Issue Sync app from K15: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215199/backbone-issue-sync-for-jira?tab=overview 

We have many diverse teams working in different JIRA projects and Backbone helps these teams stay synchronised by exchanging tickets easily and seamlessly. This allows team in Operations and Development or even HR and Onboarding processes easily exchange tasks and interact whether they are working in different Projects, different Cloud Sites or even in data center systems. It's really useable by all teams across all teams. 

[Boris Berenberg - Modus Create]

I am a bit biased but I think our app with no name (it's all keywords, feel free to message me to hear the story), and our Apptoberfest submission at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/App-Central-discussions/Apptoberfest-24-Lets-punish-our-VP-for-adding-too-many-features/td-p/2830276 is really fun. 

If you click in, you will get to watch how I try and talk through even a subset of the features while holding 5lb beer steins outstretched in each hand. 

[Jack Brickey]

my go-tos - scriptrunner, draw.io, checklist for Jira pro, JMWE, JEMH

[Dániel Ballabás - EverIT]

@Whitney Nicholes Nominating our app, Timetracker's Apptoberfest demo video in this category. 

EverIT Present A Timetracker Story: Floriography Reports

Lady Iris' journey to womanhood is closely monitored by two influential figures in her life: her kind-hearted nanny and her strict father. While her father demands detailed Timesheet reports from the nanny about how every minute of Iris' upbringing is spent, things get even more complicated as Boys begin to appear in Iris' life. The father's need for accountability grows stronger, leading to more challenges and interesting dynamics between all involved.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IgYAP2gZGwA?si=jPkAoysJY2JuP7Cf

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

Amazing week! The app for ALL teams that I'd like to mention is GitProtect backup and Disaster Recovery software for Jira. Here is a link to our post and demo: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/App-Central-articles/Title-Apptoberfest-Demo-Why-you-need-lion-on-the-guard-of-your/ba-p/2832653

[Nacho Moreno Ortega]

Hi @Whitney Nicholes ,

I would like to make a mention in this thread to our application Jira Workflow Toolbox, I think it is a very complete application for all teams! Both for Cloud and Data Center!

With JWT, amongst many other things, you will be able to:

⚡️ Level up your workflows to dismiss repetitive and manual work without code or scripts

• Create issues and sub-tasks and update fields on transitions.
• Transition issues and add comments to keep your team posted.
• Send emails with fully customized content.
• Use conditional logic supporting Jira expressions in cloud version.

🏆 Be a workflow champ

• Access all issue data with field codes, even data not directly accessible via the UI.
• Preview configurations in real-time.
• Monitor workflow executions and changes in the audit log.
• Restrict the availability of transitions, require fields and validate data with the Jira Expression condition/validator in cloud and the Logical condition in Data Center. 

And last but not least, we have a support team that offers quick assistance for any questions or configuration through the Support Portal and a complete documentation to visualize most use cases.

Thank you for reading! 

Best regards,

Nacho

[Sarah Schmitt-Bär _Seibert Group_]

Let me highlight Templating.app 💜 We've invested a lot of energy and time into creating this app, always with the vision of making it a solution for anyone using Jira.

Here's my pitch:

Creating new projects or tasks in Jira can often feel like being stuck in a never-ending loop of configuration or work. With Templating.app, you can break free! By offering templates for virtually every part of Jira, our app turns chaos into order and eliminates bottlenecks. Want to set up an onboarding process? Launch a new project? Roll out a marketing campaign? No problem. Templating.app does the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to.

 

See what we mean? Templating.app is for everyone - for you, your team, your whole company. Let’s help spread the word! 🌍 Vote for Templating.app and see why it’s a game-changer.

[Flora Rubio_TecnoFor]

🍺🍂🎉Apptoberfest '24 🍺🍂🎉: Bring some color into your world! 🌈

Colors, by Sngular 

Sgnular´ first-ever participation in Atlassian Apptoberfest, if you like our Video please vote HERE !

And a big Thank you to @Whitney Nicholes for organizing it! 🎉

[Marc - Devoteam]

The apps that I like to use are:

• draw.io
• checklist for Jira pro
• JMWE
• Optimizer for Jira
• Custom Charts for Jira (Confluence)

[Max - Swift Checklist Dev]

🎃 Swift Checklist for Jira Cloud 🎃

Checklist App is fully developed with Forge, ensuring that your data stays securely within the Atlassian Platform.

Though simple in design, it offers powerful functionality, including:

• Multiline checklist items with Markdown support
• Auto-generated checklist templates
• Workflow validators to ensure checklist completion
• JQL search functionality for querying Jira issues using checklist data
• Spreadsheet editor for bulk item management
• Notifications for checklist item changes
• History tracking
• Customizable permissions

We’d be really happy if you tried our app. Thank you👻

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Does Jira/Confluence Automation count as an 'app'? 🙃

When it comes to Marketplace, Tempo apps are something all teams use on a regular basis.