Atlassian Community Round-up: February 2024
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!
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First up, it only felt right to give a fond farewell to the product that for many of us is where our career started. Join me and wishing a farewell to the Atlassian Server products, we will remember them fondly.
Farewell to Atlassian Server: Support for Server products ends Feb 15 -
Next, we have some community news. Starting with a valentine’s day challenge that has ended, but for those that participated thank you for your efforts toward Atlassian “Ocean Clean Up” and “Tree Planting“ campaigns.
Spread the love as a Community Cupid on Valentine's Day 💖 -
Continuing with community news, you may have noticed that the Confluence & Confluence Cloud product collections have been merged together. Now it should be easier for you to figure out where your burning questions about Confluence should be posted.
Confluence Cloud is merging with Confluence -
Last up in community news, there is a new badge you can earn for sharing great (Atlassian related) content on LinkedIn and tagging the Atlassian page. Be sure to check the article for details.
🦋 New: Earn a badge for social media posts! -
Next up, in case you missed, Team ‘24 registration is now Live! With the number of people talking about it, this should be hard to miss, but the early bird pricing doesn’t last forever so if you are planning to attend, please register early to ensure you get the best discount.
Team '24 registration is now open! -
If you have never been to an Atlassian Community event where @Mark Cruth is the speaker, I would encourage you to take and make it to one (even if virtual). Mark has done an amazing recap of their most recent event in Sydney. This is absolutely worth the time reading.
How a Ways of Working Community Event hits different (and bigger!) -
@Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ is back with another thought provoking question about async collaboration and meetings. Ok check it out, and be sure to add your own thoughts in the comments.
Teamwork Tuesday #4: Do you work async? -
Next, @Amanda Barber has an amazing beginner’s guide to setting up a Jira project! This truly is the “Ultimate“ guide and I love the theme and graphics that go with it. I would also argue that this is a great read for seasoned veterans as a refresher/reminder of some things you may have forgotten over the years.
Level Up Your Workflow: The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Project in Jira -
Finally, @Hind Kadiri From Jaanga has provided us with a wonderful piece with tips for creating a culture of kindness in the workflow. I would encourage everyone to try at least one of these in the month of March.
7 Steps to Create a Culture of Kindness in the Workplace
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!
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First up, work suggestions for Jira Software is now in Early Access. This is a neat new feature that will give you suggestions on priority items that need your attention.
Developers! Waste less time with new work suggestions in Jira Software [Early access] -
Next, you can now tag Compass components to Jira Software issues with the improved integration. The Free version of Compass allows for an unlimited number of basic users who can create individual components and read the entire catalog. If you haven’t started using Compass, there’s no better time to start!
Use Compass components in Jira Software to understand the impact of your team's work -
Next, for anyone using Atlassian Assist (formerly Halp) there are some changes that have been rolled out yesterday as a part of getting ready for the Halp end of life coming in June 2024.
Creating a more cohesive Assist experience in Teams -
At the beginning of the month, Google launch some new email protection requirements. As a result all incident stakeholders must now be verified users in order to send incident emails to them. Be sure to read the article for details.
Updates to sending Incident Stakeholder Comms and reporting emails in Opsgenie -
Do you like readable hyperlinks? Good News! Jira Product discovery will now my all Atlassian Product hyperlinks you add to a URL field display in a readable format do you can easily see what has been linked at a glance.
Improvements to Atlassian links -
It wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t share some updates about the Data Center products. Be sure to check out this collection that includes a number of updates to both Bitbucket & Bamboo DC.
Discover new features available in Bitbucket and Bamboo Data Center -
Over on the Cloud side of things. If you have been waiting for user management in the Atlassian Admin as well as through Atlassian Access for Bitbucket Cloud users. The wait is over! Be sure to check out the full article for details.
Unified user management is generally available for new Bitbucket Cloud workspaces! -
Next up, Forge now has official support for Bitbucket Cloud! For all of you that like to use forge to extend the capabilities of your Atlassian products, Bitbucket Cloud is the newest product you can start to play with.
Forge for Bitbucket Cloud: Laying the foundation for infinite extensibility -
Finally, and I believe I saved the best for last this month, Confluence tables are finally getting drag and drop functionality. If like me, you have been follow this feature request for ages, the wait is over! You can look forward to this rolling out to your cloud instance in the near future.
Confluence tables get drag-and-drop!
Trending discussions you should join:
Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!
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Friday Fun : The road to Atlassian .... How did you get there ....
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Atlassian update regarding Cloudflare November 2023 incident
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Security Bulletin Updates for February 2024 - Seeking your feedback!
Questions left out in the cold:
Why not lend a hand to another fellow Community Member and try answering some of these questions!
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Where I can get multiple use-cases for JIRA Software so that I can configure the same in my account
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Restore a single repository form backup-server-client backup
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Can I have a view that looks for items WITHOUT a specific tag?
Automation Corner:
Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!
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📣 Create a Sprint in Jira directly from Confluence Automation 🤯
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Navigating Test Execution Workflows: A Beginner's Guide to Jira Automation Rules
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Mikes Trello Tips - When date is set to a weekend, move to Working Day 🗓️⏩⏩🗓️
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!
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