Atlassian Community Round-up: August 2023

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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, are some changes to the Community. New as of August, anyone who earns the “Rising Star“ badge next to their name will automatically have article writing privileges. And, if you have ever created a “draft article“, and can never find it again, there is a new options menu that will allow you to access them.
  Community release notes for August 1, 2023

• Next, App Central is a new group and home for partners to use instead of the Apps & Integrations collection. Be sure to go and join that group to stay up to date with everything going on there!
  Getting the most out of Atlassian Community (for Partners)

• With Beacon having been announced, it’s no surprise that we also see that Atlassian has joined the Open Cybersecurity Schema framework. Be sure to read through the article to understand what this means and how it will help you.
  Atlassian is now part of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework!

• Have you checked out Forge yet? Need some inspiration?  Dave from Atlassian’s Ecosystem platform team shares the details about how he built an app to keep Jira hierarchy in sync. It’s a great read and very informative!
  How I built a Forge app to keep Jira issue hierarchy in sync

• Speaking of great posts by Atlassians, @John McKiernan has put together a great article (including two videos) about how Atlassian internally is using Jira Product Discovery. Are you still trying to figure our how your teams should use Jira Product Discovery? You might want to take a look at this.
  How one team in Atlassian uses Jira Product Discovery

• Trello’s #1 fan @Brittany Joiner has written a book about the product she loves so much. This article details everything that she covers in the book. If you are looking to learn Trello from an expert, you might want to check this out!
  Just did a 311 page brain dump of all I know about Trello 🧠

• Speaking of knowledgeable people teaching you about Atlassian products.  @Rodney Nissen - ReleaseTEAM aka “The Jira Guy” has put together a wonderful article about Confluence Whiteboards!
  What is Confluence Whiteboards?

• Finally, I mentioned Confluence so you know that I have another great article from @Teodora V _Fun Inc_. Continuing her series on Creating a killer confluence space for your teams. You will want to check out this latest installment (also, I believe this isn’t the only chapter that has been posted this month, so you might want to check that out too).
  🙄 🤩 From Meh to Wow: Team Collaboration Without Borders

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 up, when I was looking to add this, I thought it was exclusive to JWM. But, to my surprise there are a number of updates spanning multiple products. From Confluence, to Trello, Atlas and more! Be sure to check it all out!
  Work Management August Product Recap

• Next, JSM’s latest updates all feature around Assets. If you are on Cloud Premium or looking at Assets you should check out all the new enhancements.
  What's New in Jira Service Management - August 2023

• Moving up to the Organization level, it is now possible for Org Admins to change and/or manage “Teams“. If you haven’t heard, Atlas is the new home for Teams across all products and giving your Org Admins some level of control over their membership is a “must have“ improvement.
  🙌 Organization admins can now change or manage any team

• And, while we are talking about managing users and groups in your Atlassian Cloud Organization. Very soon you will also be able to do this for all of your Bitbucket Users and Groups. YAY!
  Unified User Management is coming soon to Bitbucket Cloud

• I know one of the biggest challenges in adoption of Assets at my company (and maybe your company as well) has been the lack of ability to surface Assets in Confluence pages. The old Mindville app had a Confluence Macro and the lack of this for JSM Assets has been very noticeable. However, fear not! Atlassian has an Early Access program you can sign up for to try out their new solution for this. Personally I can wait. Details on how to sign up are in the article.
  🛬 Early access: surface Assets in Confluence Cloud!

• Finally for this month, You can now view your Atlas goals in Jira Software. In an effort to bring the information in both of these products together there is now a goals tab where you can see the goals your Epics are linked to. I think this is going to go a long way to making this products work very well together.
  You can now view your goals in Jira Software!

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• Data Center Digest Q3 2023

• Atlassian Compass (Beta) a source of truth to unite them all! DevOps alert, this is cool!

• Is there a way to capture the daily backlog in Jira?

• 📣 Do you need Jira Fields with better UI? Having ideas how to improve Jira custom fields UI?

• ACP-120 Jira Administration for Cloud Certification

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• Status of Jira deployment

• Lookup Issues Automation Based on Asset Custom Field

• Hide JIRA table / header if no issues returned?

• Why does Trello keep changing my due dates immediately after setting due date in the past

• API to get branch details

Automation Corner:

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

• Creating Jira issues directly from Confluence? There's a template for that! 🎉

• How to get a count of activity details and employee customer interactions in JSM

• Plug into Jira: Improve your developer experience with automations

• Navigating Atlassian’s REST API: Insights for Stability and Efficiency

• How can you benefit with Jira Post Functions and Automation 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!

[Brittany Joiner]

Great roundup as always!! And thanks for the shoutout!

[Andy Gladstone]

So much that I needed to catch up on after missing so much of August on projects and vacation. And happy that the lair is back!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

Thank you for the shout-out @Jimmy Seddon! 🥰

[Halina Cudakiewicz_Deviniti_]

I'm new here and this was very helpful, thanks!

[Prerna Sony]

Helpful write-up. 

[Aamir Saleem]

Great roundup as always!! And thanks for the shoutout

[Sam Thing]

This is great way to stay up to date,  thanks @Jimmy Seddon

[Dominika Kuraś-Moskwa _Deviniti_]

o wow, thanks a lot! It's very helpful! 

[Summer Hogan]

Great roundup @Jimmy Seddon! You just proved to me that I missed a lot in August due to being out of the office and being tremendously busy at my day job! 

[Kara Soft]

Thank you for this

[LynnG]

Great info. We are excited about adopting Asset in place of hundreds of custom fields. 

[Ryan]

Being able to manage Teams is great, been waiting for this!