A change in teams visibility

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hi Community friends,

In the next few months, we will be making changes that may affect the visibility of teams for a very small number of users. It's important to note that most teams will not be affected. Also with this change, we are making teams no longer accessible on open sites.

A small number of users may lose access to certain teams. To resolve these issues, we recommend the following:

• If you no longer can find your team, try re-creating it.

• If re-creating your team is not an option, leave a comment on this post and we will help resolve your issue.

Cheers,

Atlassian Teams

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hey @Fahad Abbasi ,

Thank you for the awesome question. It is not possible today. But later this year we will add Team custom field to Jira, so you will be able to assign issues to Teams very soon.

[Josh Barron]

Will this change improve visibility of teams to the point where i can go to Jira and apply a JQL that includes a clause like this?

assignee in membersOf("Team Name")

 I can't figure out how to use the People Directory in one of the places that I need it the most ... Jira!

Please help.

[Ian Whitecavage]

Is there any functionality to completely restrict who can create a team, as an site-admin in a very closed system we want to be able to limit who can create a team.

[Fahad Abbasi]

HI team, is it possible to assign a sprint or an issue to a team in Jira?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Hi @Yerbol Nisanbayev 

Thank you for informing the community here. I'm sorry for saying that, but isn't this kind of messing with people's data and possibly their daily workflow, no? If they have mentions on comments what happens then? The individual mentions will stay as is, and the team will not be hyperlinked anymore?

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hi @Gerald Bihr ,

That's a great question. Yes, today all teams are open. We are currently working on expanding the flexibility of teams. Later this year we plan to add invite-only teams and more controls for team membership. 

[Gerald Bihr]

Open teams only?

Is there a way to create "by-invite" only teams? Currently, anybody can join any existing team. In large organizations, team owners need to have some control as to who joins a team

How are you planning to support this?

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ thank you for following up. For most people this will not change anything, mentions and comments will work as before. For a very small minority, we will need to update their team parameters to fix things. 

[Konstantin Markov]

@Yerbol Nisanbayev I want to resurface the above question from Ian, is there a way we can restrict Team creation to only certain Groups that have proper permissions?

Allowing unfettered access to this functionality can potentially result in an increased number of redundant Teams, which could, in turn, lead to data integrity issues within our Jira environment.

Thanks.

[Renat Sabitov]

Hi @ilia kassianenko 

This is a very good question, thanks for asking!

The project to bring Atlassian Team field in Jira will also remove confusion between Advanced Roadmap teams and Atlassian Teams. Essentially, Atlassian teams will replace Advance roadmap "shared" teams and will be available across other products in the organisation. For example, you will be able to mention a team created in Advanced Roadmaps on a Confluence page.

This functionality is already working on a small subset of Jira Premium customers, and will be available later this year to everyone.

[Serene Zhuang]

Hi @Kritika,

This is an issue we are aware of. We are in the middle of fixing it.

In the meantime, if you append "/work" to the URLon your user profile page, I believe you would be able to see your recent activities. 

We will let you know when the fix is released.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers,

Serene

[Pablo Marín Asensio]

Is there anywhere we can track this feature? Like a public roadmap?

[Renat Sabitov]

Hi @Aaron Geister,

Thank you for your question!

At the moment about 75% of all customers have new team visibility changes in effect. While we want every customer to be in the end state as fast as possible, we balance that with monitoring to make sure the change doesn't cause problems.

As was said previously, Team field in Jira and Teams unification with Advanced Roadmaps is coming later this year. It is a complex change that we are keen to deliver as soon and as smooth as possible.

You can read more about upcoming changes here https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-articles/Teams-in-Advanced-Roadmaps-What-s-changing-and-what-you-need-to/ba-p/2259096

[KARABO MASANA MOTHAPO]

Thank you for the hard work.

[Liliana Varga]

Hi @Yerbol Nisanbayev , following on from the above conversation, will it be possible to assign a ticket to a Team in JIRA Service Management in the future? If so, is there a timeline for this? Thanks!

[pat.kelly]

How can I make our team private, without anyone being able to add to the team?

[Rhys Christian]

Hey, 

Just FYI on the topic of assigning Teams and for any readers on JSW Premium.

For Jira Software Premium customers it is currently possible to achieve this functionality using the Advanced Roadmaps Shared Teams - which is currently a separate Team concept from the one mentioned here.

However, in the coming months we'll be unifying team concepts and migrating Advanced Roadmaps Shared Teams into Atlassian Team.

You can read more about these changes here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-articles/Teams-in-Advanced-Roadmaps-What-s-changing-and-what-you-need-to/ba-p/2259096

[Rhys Christian]

Hey @ilia kassianenko

You can read-up on the changes that are coming to Advanced Roadmaps teams as part of this Teams unification work here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-articles/Teams-in-Advanced-Roadmaps-What-s-changing-and-what-you-need-to/ba-p/2259096

As Renat mentioned this is currently only affecting a small number of customers participating our Early rollout. As we get closer to when this unification launches more broadly, there'll be additional notice provided in-product for Advanced Roadmaps users.

[Renat Sabitov]

Hi @Wojciech Wardaszko [HeroCoders] ,

We're currently working on an initial version of public REST Team API which will be available later this year.

If it helps you at the moment we have an API in Beta state that you can experiment with. https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/teams/teams-graphql-api/using-team-query/

[Fahad Abbasi]

Thank you for replying @Yerbol Nisanbayev .  Looking forward to that day.  Cheers.

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hey @Josh Barron ,

this change will not add any JQL functionality related to teams. On another note, we are now shipping an improvement to people directory which will allow you to see whether people are a member of a certain team which may help you do what you are trying to do but not through JQL. This change should reach you in the coming week.

[Phil M]

Will it be possible to convert a public team to an invite only team and vice versa?  We have some teams we would want to lock down and would like to not have to re-create teams to do that.  

[Yerbol Nisanbayev]

Hi @Sarah Lambrechtsen 

I am afraid not yet.

[Maor Levinas]

Hi @Yerbol Nisanbayev ,

I have the same experience, Teams created via the 'people' menu are not listed.

I understand there is work in progress to fix that but what is the ETA?

Kind regards,
Maor

[Sarah Lambrechtsen]

Is there an estimated launch data for this invite only feature?