New cloud apps roundup - June 2021

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Since our last roundup in April, Atlassian's Marketplace Partners have added over 100 new cloud apps to the Atlassian Marketplace to help your teams work more efficiently. Let’s take a quick look at a few highlights:

New Jira apps

Image Editor for Jira 

Upload images and use crop, rotate, flip, draw, shapes, filters, icons and other useful editor features to enhance communication in Jira. Get your internal team and clients to mark up bugs and UI issues as though they were drawing with a marker on your screen. Highlight images, keep user stories short and straightforward, expand written text with sketches, create detailed bug reports, and more.

Power Custom Fields for Jira 

Create custom fields in Jira with Power Custom Fields for Jira. Use extensive configurability with versatile settings, view information on all Issue Calculated custom fields in an issue glance panel, and use calculated fields to customize searches and organize your backlog. Enhance reporting and create a clear plan of action based on data driven insights.

Team Resource, Time Tracking, Timesheet & Cost Management for Jira

A comprehensive solution for functional leaders to manage resources and team schedules. Managers can view, plan and report on things like time tracking, timesheets, vacation and leave, holidays, billing rate and cost, and more.

Epic Clone for Jira

Set up entire structures (Epic - Issue - Sub-Tasks) and clone them for reuse in one step. With Epic Clone, you can duplicate Parent Issues (e.g. Epic), Child Issues, Linked Issues and Sub-Tasks, and even modify fields and choose which issues to clone.

ToDo Checklist with Forge for Jira 

ToDo Checklist for Jira helps you to break up large stories, manage definitions of “ready”, monitor definition of “done” stages, list your acceptance criteria and more. With ToDo Checklist for Jira, you can create easy and simple checklists with explanations and user mentions, plus capture detailed usage histories to follow progress of projects.

Who is Online for Jira 

Enjoy increased visibility and make working on collaborative tasks easier with Who is Online for Jira. This app allows you to see who is online and looking at the same page or ticket in a given moment. The app is compatible with Jira Service Management queues, Jira Software Scrum and Kanban boards, and Jira Core issue view.

Create Multiple Subtasks for Jira 

Streamline the sub-tasks creation process. Create multiple subtasks, name tasks and populate fields with custom data in one go. See results and detailed reporting, and save frequently used subtasks as templates for more efficient project management.

Quick Agile Planning Poker (Free in Beta) 

Quick Agile Planning Poker is an agile planning and estimation tool. Quickly estimate user stories while having fun with team in Jira Agile Planning Poker session. With this app, you can gather your team and to review your product backlog, pick stories to estimate, work together on estimation through a fun game of planning poker, and then list and create a new sprint from your estimated list of stories.

Issue Reminders for Jira 

Issue Reminders allows you to create multiple reminders for issues. Send reminders to individual users, groups and reporter, assignee, watchers and voters. Reminders can be periodic and they can be private to users. Plus, admins can control who can create and view reminders at the app level.

Considering Cloud? Check out the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant with enhanced app assessment features to help you identify the apps you need in cloud. App Assessment is the best way to understand what apps you’re currently using, what’s available in the marketplace, and how to make decisions on which apps to bring to cloud. Read more about how Cloud Migration Assistants are evolving to provide new ways to help you migrate your apps.

New Confluence apps

Smart Courses for Confluence - LMS 

This cloud version of a popular server app allows you to build captivating courses within Confluence so you don’t need to use a standalone learning management solution. With Smart Courses, you can create (or co-create) and share courses, create quizzes with predefined or open answers, include attachments or embed code or video, complete courses at your own pace, track learners' progress, and more, all within Confluence.

Excel-like Tables for Confluence (Free in Beta) 

Use Excel-like Tables in a Confluence page to import your Excel files into a table to share with team members. Most of the Excel features are available with this app, including tables, formulas, charts, and shapes. You can import/export an Excel file into Confluence, and the data is stored in the Confluence instance, so it’s secure. Plus, this app is currently out in beta, so it’s free!

Format Painter for Confluence 

It’s easy to copy and paste formatting in Confluence with the Format Painter tool. This app allows you to copy all formatting from one text section and apply it to another. Format copying and pasting works for color scheme, font type, size and color, decoration styles, and alignment.

Recent Edits Overview for Confluence (Free) 

This app adds a small label to the top of every Confluence page on your site where you can check to see if there were any edits made since you last visited the page. Find out how long ago you visited a page and how many edits were made (and by whom) in the intervening time. Plus, easily navigate to a Confluence interface that gives an overview of recent changes.

Countdown Timer for Confluence (Free) 

This cloud version of a popular free server app allows you to add a countdown timer to your Confluence pages. It’s a simple, useful free app that displays a countdown based on any given date.

Mermaid for Confluence

Mermaid is a Javascript-based diagramming and charting tool that renders markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. With this app, you can create graphs, Gantt charts, and many other diagrams from plain text using the Mermaid JavaScript library.

Translations for Confluence 

Translations for Confluence is a popular server app that’s now available for Confluence Cloud. This app allows you to create and edit page content in multiple languages easily. Just use a language macro in the desired language and add your translation to it. Include as many languages as you want on a single page. In view mode, users will see the page content in their preferred language only.

Viable Issues for Confluence 

Create Jira issues directly from Confluence page with a “Create Jira Issue” button for Confluence. Team members can create and manage defined issue types from pages to bring clearer structure into your collaboration workflow.

Considering Cloud? Check out the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant with enhanced app assessment features to help you identify the apps you need in cloud. App Assessment is the best way to understand what apps you’re currently using, what’s available in the marketplace, and how to make decisions on which apps to bring to cloud. Read more about how Cloud Migration Assistants are evolving to provide new ways to help you migrate your apps.

Looking for more cloud apps? Well, there are lots of new apps to check out. Head to the Atlassian Marketplace to browse more of the cloud apps that have recently been added.

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[mararn1618 _secretbakery_io_]

Hey @Maggie Norby Adams, was really looking forward to this, since my app Duplicate AI came out. Unfortunately not included in neither May, nor June roundup. :/

Are there additional criteria to be listed, I'm not aware of? Could it be listed in the July roundup?

‒ Cheers, Markus

[Maggie Norby Adams]

Hi @mararn1618 _secretbakery_io_ - 

In general, we take into consideration all new cloud apps and try to highlight those that we think would be of interest to customers and the community. We do pay attention to things like participation in cloud security and badging programs and number of positive reviews, but really beyond having an app that is newly released since the last roundup, there is no additional specific criteria to getting selected. Unfortunately I'm not able to showcase every new app as there are too many each period. 

The next roundup will be focused on a specific security and reliability topic, but I highly recommend raising visibility for Duplicate AI by engaging with the Atlassian Community in other ways, like answering community questions about organizing Jira and managing duplicates, or even posting your own article about your solution, like this one or this one. Feel free to message me directly if you have specific questions or want to discuss other ways to boost visibility for your app.  

[Hua Soon SIM _Akeles_]

Thank you @Maggie Norby Adams for featuring Countdown Timer for Confluence Cloud. 

We released 5 free Forge apps for Cloud last month. Glad that at least 1 of them made into your list 😁

[mararn1618 _secretbakery_io_]

Hey Maggie, thanks for shedding some light on this. I must admit that I didn't realize only a few selected apps are highlighted and not all new apps make it into the roundup 😅. Thanks also for the pointers regarding other measures to gain visibility 👍

[Andreas Springer {Actonic}]

@Maggie Norby Adams: Thanks for including our app Who is Online!

If the next roundup is focused on security, you might want to have a look at GDPR (DSGVO) and Security for Jira and Confluence, which got an exciting new Confluence Cloud feature recently: Admins can set up rules to automatically react to newly created sensitive information that should not become public, and deal with it by restricting access for example. We still have to update the marketplace listing for that. If you have any questions, feel free to get back to me. Thanks! :)

[Łukasz Modzelewski _Lumo_]

+1 Forge app to the list, our Absence Tracker

It was one of the apps created by our team for the Codegeist 2020. The idea behind it is based on our Server/DC app (Vacation Manager): it use 1 dedicated project to track absences and on the issue view screen (in all projects) it allows to checks if any of the involved in ticket users is out/not available or planning a leave.

If you are developer interested in Forge, we talked about challenges in latest Atlassian event Developer Day 2021, in session: LEAPing into Marketplace (available after registration, on-demand)