Atlassian Community Round-up: July 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, the latest kudos update includes new level up rewards and three new badges that are up for grabs for you to earn. Be sure to check them out and claim them as soon as you can.
  Kudos release notes | July 1st, 2024

• Next, speaking of badges there is a new badge you can earn for liking the lift off page as well as one for getting involved in the new ACA - Confluence Essentials certification. Also, there is new updates on Team '24 Europe and a new free Atlassian Intelligence university course.
  Community Launchpad + Lift Off badge 🚀

• Speaking of Confluence, there’s also a bite-sized learning for Confluence Automations. If you have been wanting to learn more about the automations available in Confluence, be sure to check this out!
  Bite-sized Learning: How end users can use Automation for Confluence with smart buttons!

• Next up, there is a new group in the Online Community specifically for Bitbucket Pipelines. If you have been looking for a place to ask all of your Pipeline related build and deployment questions, now you have a dedicated place to do so.
  Introducing The New Bitbucket Pipelines Community Space

• Next, in case you missed it, July is a month all about Jira! This article has a collection of all the activities you may have missed out on including Jira Admin Appreciation Day (July 15th).
  Happy Jira July ’24

• Did you miss the first episode of “Are you smarter than a Jira Admin?“ This article includes a list of all the questions asked so that you can test yourself. Be sure you sign up for the next episode so you can join the action live.
  Recap - Are you smarter than a Jira Admin? | June 2024

• Next, have you wanted to learn more about tracking assets, in Trello? Brittany Joiner has written (and included a video) about her amazing way to use a Trello board for tracking the inventory of items in her camper. You should really check it out!
  Track inventory and items inside Trello

• Next, as a parent myself I can understand the fear of how others will accept your personal needs in a professional environment. However, this is a wonderful article by Hana Kučerová about her return back to work and the acceptance of her colleagues and customers alike!
  How my work life changed after my daughter was born

• Finally, Teodora V is back with another insightful take on how to get your tools to communicate with one another. If you are struggling, hopefully this article will help you bring things back in alignment.
  Are Your Tools Communicating Well?

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 for JSM fans, have you started using the virtual agent? Well, now it’s available to be used on the portal as well. You can now take advantage of the great virtual agent features without the need to setup a link with one of the chat apps (e.g. Slack)
  Now available: Jira Service management virtual agent on portal

• Next, for anyone that is currently using JSM Assets, please not that as of September 30th, 2024 you will no longer be able to use Status IDs in AQL. This was an undocumented capability and as of September of this year, this feature will be removed. Going forward you will need to update any filters and scripts to use the status name instead.
  AQL in Assets for Jira Service Management cloud will no support matching ID's on Status attributes

• Speaking of notifications of changes, the Bitbucket Cloud team will very soon (if not already started as of the time this post goes out) start deleting empty workspaces. This will not affect your ability to log-in and access your Bitbucket profile and non-empty workspaces will not be impacted.
  Deletion of empty Bitbucket Cloud workspaces

• Next, for my friends on Cloud Enterprise, new data is available to consume in Atlassian Analytics for Confluence. The highlight points center around attachments, whiteboards, databases and space permissions. If you are using Analytics, you might want to take a closer look at the new things you can leverage.
  New Confluence data in Atlassian Analytics

• Speaking of Whiteboards, there are a number of new changes for you to check out! Including, transparency for images, full screen mode and new stickers! Plus, a look at some features that are coming soon!
  What's New in Confluence Whiteboards: June Edition

• If you haven’t heard, Confluence Databases are now GA! Do you want to know if this feature is right for you? Go read through this article which does a great job of explaining how to use Databases including what’s new as of GA vs what was available during the Beta.
  Just in, Confluence databases have landed 🚀

• I think most people know my feelings around Team managed projects, so this is a very welcomed surprise! Sprint Retrospectives, which has only been available in team managed projects, is now available for Company Managed projects! Be sure to check out this great new addition!
  Sprint Retrospectives now available in Company Managed Projects

• Next, for those of you using Plans (formerly Advanced Roadmaps) there is a new beta features for you to start playing with. The Program board is not available to help you with short to mid term planning. Note that this new functionality does have a few limitations and configuration prerequisites. But, it’s worth checking it out!
  Introducing the Program board in Plans!

• Finally, are you interested in learning more about building your own Rovo agents? The EAP for the Forge Developer experience is coming soon. Be sure to sign up today! I wonder if this might be a Codegeist theme in the near future…
  The Rovo Agents Forge Developer experience EAP is coming soon

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• Miscellaneous Monday - Welcome to Summer!

• Let's discuss trees! 🌳🌳🌳

• Scrum Sprint Team Capacity Planner - spreadsheet

• Friday Fun: Show & Tell your Workation/Travel Fails and Wins 😅🏝️🏞️

• Standard or Free Plan? How are you managing your 3 active boards limit?

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• Time in Status field returns null on some issues

• Adding Hierarchal levels to JPD/ Cross Team Projects/ Adding Sprints/Chrome Extension Addition
  Can I assign approvers to a releases?

• Copy and download attachments in batch

• View all projects group by teams

• Is it possible to create a URL in a page template where the last part comes from a variable?

• Basic Users can't see metrics

Automation Corner:

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

• 📢 New Improvements for Jira and Confluence Automation

• Did someone say "Embeddable Manual Triggers"?!?! 🤯

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Rolling-out-now-for-automation-time-delay-action-new-connectors/ba-p/2745704

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/End-Users-Can-Now-Easily-Leverage-Automation-for-Confluence-with/ba-p/2747531

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Better-Pickers-%EF%B8%8F/ba-p/2760279

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Compass-articles/New-automation-trigger-Scorecard-status-changed/ba-p/2751087

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Send-a-Slack-message-with-an-mention-using-Web-Request/ba-p/2752942

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!

[John Funk]

Dang - I wish there was more stuff happening in the Atlassian ecosphere. This looks pretty sparse.   :-)

Thanks as always, @Jimmy Seddon !!

[Andy Gladstone]

July was a really rough month both work-wise and health-wise. I needed this to start my August off right!

[Denis Boisvert]

Vacation month they say! 

[Patrícia Fortunato Montenegro]

That is a fantastic summary; I truly enjoyed it. Thank you, @Jimmy Seddon! You rock, as always!

[Amanda Barber]

So many goodies!

[Summer Hogan]

Just got a chance to watch this, but fantastic as always @Jimmy Seddon!

[Susan Waldrip]

Tons of info in your round-ups, and I really enjoy listening to the video while looking thru the links you post. Thanks as always for taking the time to do this!

[Vronik]

Thank you very much for the summary ;o)

[Tuncay Senturk]

Thank you, as usual!