🍂🎃 Apptoberfest discussion: apps for admins👩‍💻

[Maggie Norby Adams]

Hi Community! Welcome to the first weekly Apptoberfest discussion of 2022! This week’s topic is: 👩‍💻 Apps for Admins 👨‍💻

Atlassian’s Marketplace is full of apps that enable Jira and Confluence Admins to work more efficiently and help their teams do more.

What we want to know is, what are your favorite apps for Jira or Confluence administration? How do these apps help you scale your efforts, tailor your team’s experience, or save time?

Let us know!

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[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Ohh! WOnderful topic!

With no order of preference, although I do have a natural tendency to work with certain apps, I would choose:

• JMWE
• Scriptrunner
• JSU
• JWT
• Automation for Jira 
• Elements copy+sync
• Project configurator for Jira
• Smart Project Config and Documentation
• User Switcher for Jira
• Home Directory, Database & Log Browser for Jira

The first six apps are being used for getting the job done. Whatever the customer needs, these apps can provide (in terms of workflows, calculations etc).

Smart Project Config and Documentation can give you an overview of all workflows, and not only, used within a project. Super handy in terms of documenting things and save time.

Project configurator for Jira is super handy if you want to move single (and many) projects from one server/DC instance to another. You can keep the export as backup as well :)

The rest of the apps are useful for troubleshooting different issues (server/DC only unfortunately). It's great time saver to be able to switch a user and see/experience what the other user experience. This is useful for testing as well.

All of the above apps save from a Jira admin a whole lotta time and if combined in the right way, can reduce maintenance to a minimum.

[Andy Gladstone]

Hmm. I don't know if all of these really fit into the ease of administration category, but, I can argue that any good app adds to the overall experience for all users and enhances the platform. Anything that creates more engagement is an admins dream. 

With that being said, these are the apps we have used or demoed in our instance and would recommend to all admins to test and install in their instances.

• Confluence

  • Sketch
  • Scroll WP Publisher
  • Page View Analytics for Confluence Cloud
  • Mermaid Charts & Diagrams for Confluence

  • Scroll Viewport for Confluence

  • External Share for Confluence

• Jira

  • GitHub for Jira
  • Automated Log Work for Jira
  • Easy Agile TeamRhythm

[Hana Kučerová]

I've accomplished several migrations to cloud before my maternity leave started and I really loved to use Integrity Check for Jira. There's always a lot of cleaning and deleting before the migrations and I like the feeling that I didn't broke anything and users still have their filters and boards etc. functional.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Hana Kučerová this app seems very handy! I'm currently working on a rather small migration, and I think it will be great to try it! Thanx for sharing this :)

[Maria Timova _Appfire_]

Thank you for the lovely shout out @Hana Kučerová , we appreciate the support! There are new things on the roadmap, so keep an eye out!

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ ,please do try, and if you have questions or feedback, we'll be more than happy to hear them. Integrity Check for Jira works equally great with small and large instances, regardless of complexity. So you can fully trust the app to help you scan the entire system or selected projects for errors and give you quick fixes along the way. 

[Vish Reddy _Revyz_]

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_, @Hana Kučerová @Andy Gladstone,

We are a new app in the Atlassian marketplace - We make it seamless to backup and restore your data in your Jira Site - We would love your feedback and appreciate your support.

Thank you

[John Funk]

Thanks for kicking this off, @Maggie Norby Adams !!

My favorites are:

• JMWE
• Deep Clone
• Automation for Jira
• External Data for Jira Fields
• Revyz Backup and Restore