Atlassian Community Round-up: April 2024

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, we have some Community updates. At the beginning of the month, we have some new updates to the “Ask a Question“ experience with a streamlined product selection and a new informational banner.
  Community release notes for April 1st, 2024

• Next, at the halfway mark, there is a new events menu item so you can find out what’s happening virtually or near you easier. Also, the Jira Core Server and Team Managed Projects collections have been consolidated into the Jira Software collection.
  Community release notes for April 15th, 2024

• Do you love collecting Kudos badges? Of course you do! There’s a new one to add to your profile. All you have to do is like this article to earn the launchpad badge! There’s also some other great announcements you should check out while you are there.
  Community Launchpad & Lift Off Kudos Badge 🚀

• Have you heard of the Atlassian Creators Program? Maybe you have seen some of their posts on LinkedIn or other social media platforms? Applications to join the Creators program have opened up again. If you are interested, be sure to get your application in today!
  Atlassian Creator Program Applications Reopening Today, April 2, 2024!

• Speaking of the Atlassian Creators, A number of them have created short videos with tutorials on using Atlassian Intelligence. This hot topic is likely to be big at Team '24, have you had a chance to use it yet? Check out these videos to see how you might take advantage of it!
  16 Videos to Learn How to Use 'Atlassian Intelligence'

• Team ‘24 is live and happening right now!  @Darryl Lee has once again put together a fantastic grid view of every session and when it’s happening. The best part, it’s posted this publicly for everyone to take advantage of. If you want an easier way to look at what’s happening and when, be sure to check this out!
  Team 24 Agenda is Live - Here's a grid-view

• A little self promotion, I have been posting tips for surviving Team '24 in every Welcome Wednesday of April. I highly recommend you check them out for tips on making the most out of your Team '24 experience!
  Welcome Wednesday: Atlassian Team Survival Series: Arid Environments

• Won’t be able to make it to Team ‘24 in person? I’m sorry I would be able to see you here, but make sure you have registered for the digital experience. There are a number of sessions that will be provided virtually including the keynotes which you won’t want to miss. The best part, it’s completely free!
  What happens in Vegas…is coming to your screen!

• Do you know how to link Jira Product Discovery with the rest of your delivery cycle process? If you missed the live webinar, you should checkout this recording. Additionally, the article highlights a number of the great questions asked with the answers provided.
  🎥 "How to connect discovery and delivery in Jira" webinar - recording + top FAQ

• @Summer Hogan has a wonderful advice piece on adapting to change. I think this is advice that beginners and veterans alike can benefit from so be sure to give it a read.
  Adapting to Change in an Agile Environment

• Finally, we have a great set of tips from @Josh Costella that will help you with your Agile implementation. Be sure to check them out!
  5 Essential Strategies for Implementing Agile with Jira in Your Team

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• First, you now how the option to bulk change Confluence page owners. Did someone leave the company recently? Well now you can search for all of their pages and quickly and easily change them to the new page owner.
  New bulk action! Change your page owners in bulk

• Mission Control, which is your Confluence Admin panel, now has some new insights that you can use to help take your users usage and activity on your Confluence pages. You can now see what the most popular searches are and the click through %. More importantly, this is just the beginning of more analytics to be delivered in the future. Be sure to check it out.
  New mission control insights! See what your users are searching for across your site

• Confluence Whiteboards have dark mode! Do I need to say anything more? I love dark mode and Confluence Whiteboards has been a fantastic whiteboarding tool in the bits I have been using it. Go check it out!
  🌓 Introducing dark mode for Confluence whiteboards

• I wrote an article a while back and Atlassian Intelligence was something I called out as a feature I would love to see in the Confluence Mobile app. Well, someone at Atlassian either saw that and listened, or was thinking the same thing as I was. I already love the Confluence Mobile app and the ability to publish content on the go, Atlassian Intelligence will now allow you to be more efficient as well!
  Confluence Mobile now has Atlassian Intelligence (AI) capabilities

• We have heard a lot about migrating to the cloud during the lead up to end of life for the server products. Now, Atlassian is working on making it easier for you to transfer data from one Cloud site to another. If this is something you are interested in, be sure to read the details of what is available now in this article.
  Bridging the Clouds: Unleashing the Power of Atlassian's Cloud to Cloud Migration Tools

• Who’s checked out Jira Product Discovery? There’s now an early access for an enhanced Timeline view available. Now might be the time to check it out. The free plan allows you to have up to three creators, go check it out!
  📣 Early access program for enhanced timeline views

• There’s a new way for you to look at issues in your Jira Software projects. For those of you who prefer to different perspective to view and work on your issues, you might want to check this out. Easy filtering, grouping issues and the ability to expend and collapse all issues. Be sure to read the article for details.
  A new way to view your issues in Jira Software projects

• Have you had a chance to start using Compass yet? A new feature was just added to the GitHub app that will allow you to automatically create Compass components as you add repositories to your GitHub Organization. Be sure to read the article for details.
  Keep your component catalog in sync with GitHub automatically

• A number of changes are coming to pull request and merge checks, this article is a link to Atlassian’s blog post with more details. I recommend Bitbucket users check this out.
  Upcoming changes to pull requests and merge check configuration

• I’ve saved the one I’m most excited about for last. For all of you out there (like me) who have been waiting for Jira Cloud to finally get a feature Data Center has had for what feels like ages. Priority Schemes are rolling out to all Cloud sites! If you don’t have them yet, please be patient a little longer, they are on their way!
  Announcing Priority Schemes in Jira

Trending discussions you should join:

Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!

• Where should a FEATURE be created? Jira vs. Jira Align....

• Miscellaneous Monday - It's April Fool's Day!

• Link your personal space home page to Jira ticket doesn´t work properly

• Add 2 teams in responder against P1 alerts

• Does adding a team member require a license in Opsgenie?

Questions left out in the cold:

Why not lend a hand to another fellow Community Member and try answering some of these questions!

• Advanced Roadmap filters not applying to child issues

• How to Create Customer Request with Form using REST API?

• JIRA.JQL() Function in Excel

• How can I disable derived metrics?

• How do I constrain a CQL search on parent page ID when the parent has thousands of children?

• Can I change the number of users I pay for monthly?

• Atlas team's "Team Activity" list is empty

• Pull Request API or APP for Metrics

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• The Developer's Edge | Using GitHub Advanced Security in Jira

• New Automation Trigger for Compass in Jira and Confluence Cloud

• 📣 Verified Pages - Now Available in Confluence! ✅

• Jira Automation: Updating a Confluence page with information from Jira issues

• 🪄Confluence Automation New AI Actions!!! 😲

• Sharing JSM tickets via the Confluence Knowledge base

• A helpful guide to automate comment copying across JSM, JSW, and JWM projects

• Simple but yet little changeling automations Rules

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Amanda Barber]

Great roundup as always, @Jimmy Seddon 

[Andy Gladstone]

I have literally watched your Monthly Round Ups in Trains, Planes (this moment!) and Automobiles. I've also probably listened to the audio while on a bike. I may need to put on my inline skates for the May Recap!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

When you are deep into Team '24 and still excel. Great job putting this together @Jimmy Seddon!  

[Summer Hogan]

Great roundup @Jimmy Seddon and thanks for the shoutout! 

[Alex G]

Thank you for the roundup @Jimmy Seddon!