Atlassian Community Round-up: January 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 (and there was A LOT)! 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!

• It’s that time of year again! The registration for Team ‘23 is now open. It will once again be happing in Las Vegas and yes I’m already registered and attending in person. If you are planning to attend in person feel free to say hello!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Official-Atlassian-Events/Team-23-registration-is-now-open/ba-p/2239486

• If you work in an amazing team, be sure to let everyone know! There is still time to submit a nomination with the winners being announced at Team '23.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/The-2023-Team-Awards-are-open-for-your-nominations/ba-p/2230568

• Unfortunately, this contest has already ended. Why am I mentioning it? Because the prize is absolutely amazing and this is a perfect example of why you need to regularly watch what’s going on in the Community. When the winner is announced, be sure to congratulate them.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/Devs-Unleashed-Social-Giveaway/ba-p/2234407

• Do you know how Opsgenie works? Are you interested? Or are you like me and looking to learn an easier way to explain it to others? You should read this article! It’s not to long and very informative.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Opsgenie-articles/On-Call-Scheduling-and-Rotation-A-Kid-Friendly-Explanation-of/ba-p/2243749

• Are you new to Confluence Administration? Or are you always looking for tips to be the best admin you can be? (I know I always am)! You need to check out these great tips from @Ollie Guan. There are plenty of things I learned myself.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Tips-for-Confluence-Administrators-Part-1/ba-p/2238613

• You know all about setting Jira resolutions right? But are you aware of some amazing best practices around setting resolutions?  @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ has put together some amazing advice that will help make your reporting better.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/New-to-Jira-articles/Best-Practices-for-Setting-Resolution-field/ba-p/2229574

• I loved this series when it first came out and @Walter Buggenhout is back with another episode and if you missed the the earlier episode, be sure to go back and check them out as well.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/Raising-a-Teenager-picking-up-where-we-left-off/ba-p/2233741

• Do you want to know all the secret answers for passing the ACP-120 exam? Well, you won’t be given the answers, but @Gal Fatal has some excellent advice around how you should prepare to have the best chances to pass the exam.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/How-I-passed-ACP-120-Jira-Admin-for-cloud-certification-exam/ba-p/2245882

• Community leaders volunteer their personal time to help people learn more about the Atlassian products by either helping to answer questions in the online community or organizing fantastic events with great speakers. Would you like to get to know some of these people a little bit better? The first in an ongoing series is @Sajit Nair _Trundl_!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Welcome-Center-articles/Community-Leader-Sajit-Nair-shares-his-passion-for-building/ba-p/2227670

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, is ISO certification important to your company? Check out this article with the latest update to Atlassian’s ISO certification status for a number of their Cloud products.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trust-Security-articles/FY23-ISO-IEC-27001-Certifications-Update/ba-p/2230508

• Related to that, Atlassian has also announced a number of Cloud products that are now HIPAA compliant.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trust-Security-articles/FY23-HIPAA-Compliance/ba-p/2230717

• Have you checked out Jira Product Discovery? It’s still in beta as a part of Atlassian’s Point A program (which means it’s free to try) and a number of new features have been released recently. If you haven’t been watching it already, it’s really worth a look.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/Product-update-what-s-shipped-recently-and-coming-soon/ba-p/2241906

• For all you JWM (Jira Work Management) fans out there, Atlassian has provided a sneak peak at a number of new additions that you can expect to see hitting your boards in the near future.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Articles/New-Year-of-Jira-Work-Management-updates-Board-grouping/ba-p/2235534

• Do you have GitHub connected to Jira? Well, hang on tight, Atlassian has announced a new “Github for Jira“ in the Atlassian Marketplace. What about the existing connector? Check out the full article for details, but it sounds like that won’t continue to be around forever. My personal recommendation would be to start looking now before you are forced to move.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Github-for-Jira-the-complete-solution-to-integrate-your-Github/ba-p/2238401

• Roadmaps for Jira Software Cloud was made available to Company Managed projects back in 2018. However, you would have needed to go into your project settings and turn on this feature. As of now, this setting is on by default. Have you intentionally decided not to use roadmaps? Check out the link in the article to turn them off.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Roadmaps-quot-On-quot-By-Default-on-Company-Managed-Projects/ba-p/2245493

• Are you a fan of Team Managed projects? Well, now they aren’t exclusive to Jira Software. You can now create Team managed Service Management projects.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Enable-team-managed-Jira-Service-Management-projects-on-your/ba-p/2242609

• Finally, the Confluence Cloud team has put together a great summary of all the new features that have been launched in the past couple of months. Be sure to check it to make sure you haven’t missed! (Also there are a couple of amazing educational resources with some amazing people sharing how Confluence has helped them.)
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/What-s-New-in-Confluence-Cloud-Dec-22-amp-Jan-23-Edition/ba-p/2243967

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Welcome-Center-discussions/I-would-greatly-appreciate-it-if-you-could-tell-me-which/td-p/2229505

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-discussions/npm-ci-breaks-pipeline/td-p/2240742

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Welcome-Center-discussions/Welcome-Wednesday-Have-You-Registered-for-Team-23-Yet/td-p/2243268

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/How-to-Bulk-change-assignee-from-Assignee-A-to-Assignee-B-in-a/td-p/2241347

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-discussions/Revolutionizing-Jira-Administration-The-Impact-of-ChatGPT/td-p/2242365

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/On-PDF-export-how-to-change-the-color-of-bullets-within-a-table/qaq-p/2231418

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Can-I-use-VSCode-Bitbucket-extension-without-installing-git/qaq-p/2228233

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/Can-I-define-new-attributes-for-Insight-from-Discovery-custom/qaq-p/2228904

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Invalid-Source-Path/qaq-p/2229721

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Create-a-custom-field-and-deploy-it-on-multiple-workspace/qaq-p/2230055

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Deleting-or-reducing-logged-time/qaq-p/2230271

Automation Corner:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/JSM-Jira-Automation-How-To-Synchronize-Customer-and-Dev-Team/ba-p/2233250

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Delete-all-worklogs-from-an-issue-using-Jira-Automation-with/ba-p/2233207

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Articles/How-to-automatically-populate-service-related-information-stored/ba-p/2240423

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Set-up-email-alerts-for-your-JSM-queues/ba-p/2241807

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/JSM-Jira-Automation-How-To-Synchronize-Statuses-between-Linked/ba-p/2247012

I really hope you all enjoyed making your way through this collection as much as I enjoyed compiling it. As always, this is just a sample of some of the amazing content that people are posting every day, so be sure to go and explore the rest of the community for yourself! I hope you all have an amazing February and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Esther Ovie]

Thanks for this @Jimmy Seddon and do have an amazing February 

[John Funk]

Wow, that's a lot!!

[Andy Gladstone]

I love starting my month hearing your voice going over the greatest hits in the community. Thanks for this value add article and video!

[Tommy Augustine]

Nice!

[Amanda Barber]

I always love these roundups and end up with a whooooole slew of tabs open to go through. :-D 

[Marcos Milanesio]

Genius @Jimmy Seddon !!! Thanks a lot!!! 

[Dan Breyen]

Thanks