Atlassian Community Round-up: September 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, if you missed the most recent episode of “Are you smarter than a Confluence Admin“, you really missed out this time as it was hosted by @Fun Man Andy & @Andy Gladstone. If you are interested in reviewing the questions and answers, be sure to check out this article.
  Recap - Are you smarter than a Confluence Admin? | September 2024

• Next, Team '24 Europe is less than a week away. Do you need help building your agenda? This article will give you all the tips and tricks you need!
  Enhancing Your Team24 Europe Experience with Agenda Builder

• It’s October, which means that is time for another Apptoberfest! Be sure to check out the App Central collection throughout the month to learn more about a number of ways you can extend your Atlassian products to make them better.
  🍻🍂 Apptoberfest '24🍻🍂 is back again this October. Get ready!

• Do you like badges? Would you like to earn another one? Be sure to check out the latest Atlassian Intelligence training sessions.
  📣 Attend a FREE Atlassian Intelligence Training Session this Month for an Exclusive Badge!

• This webinar is happening tomorrow. If you are a fan of Confluence, you should consider trying to make room in your calendar to attend this.
  Register now: The Economic Impact of Confluence for org-wide productivity

• Next, @Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_ shares some tips about using Confluence Whiteboards at scale. Be sure to also check out the recording of the live learning event held on this topic as well.
  Confluence Whiteboards- My Secret to Agile at Scale

• Deleting issues in Jira, should you do it? Let’s ask @Rachel Wright what she thinks. This is a fantastic article with some extremely insightful information.
  Why should deleting issues in Jira be restricted?

• Finally, @Janice from the Community team has shared a wonderful and thought provoking piece about reflecting on the advice you have received in your career. Before sure to check it out to learn from others and to share your own thoughts.
  Reflect and Inspire: Your career journey

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, two articles with some love for my Data Center friends. Both of these articles have announced that the new LTS versions of Bitbucket and Jira/JSM will be available in Q4 of 2024. Additionally, they highlight the items that you can expect to be coming in those releases. I would encourage you to check them both out so you can start planning your upgrades soon.
  The next Bitbucket Data Center Long Term Support Release is coming soon!
  Announcing the Next Long Term Support Release for Jira Software and Jira Service Management

• Next, if you (like my company) struggle with the velocity reports timing out at times, I have great news for you. Atlassian is making some enhancements to make the process that generated this report asynchronous which should prevent those time out errors from happening.
  Upcoming Improvements to Jira Velocity Report: Enhancing Reliability

• Do you wish you had the ability to provide a quick response in a Jira ticket? Well now you can! Jira now has smart replies which are a few common replies that you can add with a single click.
  Jira now offers smart replies in issues

• Atlassian Goals are a great way to define your success criteria. However, up until now it has been difficult to determine your progress towards those goals. Atlassian is making that easier by allowing you to define metrics for goals which will help you track your progress against goals. Want to learn more? Check out the article!
  📈 Metrics are now available on Atlassian Goals!

• For everyone that is taking advantage of JSM Assets, please note that at the end of this month (as of October 31st, 2024) Object types will be limited to 2 unique constraints. Atlassian is making this change to provide a more scalable and performant solution. If you are currently using more than 2 unique constraints on your object types, please read the full article for details and plan on making changes before the end of the month.
  Assets for Jira Service Management cloud will have a limit of 2 unique constraints per object type

• Do you have pages in Confluence who’s only purpose is to hold a collection of other pages? Well now yo have another option, Atlassian has launched Folders into beta! This is a new Confluence object type that can be used to organize your pages in a page tree. If you are interested in learning more, please read all the details in the article.
  🗂️ Announcing Folders in Confluence! 🗂️

• Speaking of updates to Confluence, there are also some new enhancements to Databases. There are now two methods for creating pages from a database. Fixed, where new pages will always be the child of a select parent item. Or Dynamic, which will use the context of where you are currently editing. You also have more choice between using page templates and database entries. If I have piqued your interest, you should check out the article for all the details.
  📄 New page creation updates within Databases!

• Finally, Guard Premium has new enhancements to alerts to make it easier for you to make sense of the data more easily so that you can take action faster. This includes the ability to see actual search terms, powerful filters and the ability to connect searches to page view activity.
  Get the context you need to investigate suspicious searches with our enhanced alert

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• Play of the Month: What’s your favorite Atlassian Play? Join the discussion to get a badge!

• Recap - Are you smarter than a Jira Admin? | August 2024

• Every Last Friday of the Month, what happens?

• Sharing is caring!!! 😀

• Data Center Love Month: Confluence Highlights Demo

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• Approvals of Multiple Teams with Multiple Users

• Automatic Closure of Opsgenie Incident When JIRA Ticket is Closed

• Is there anyway to track compass usage?

• How do you filter Confluence Database Search Results?

• Calendar Sync - Due Date

• See the Jira Issue Status on Bitbucket Branches Page

Automation Corner:

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

• 📣 Free Atlassian Event: Join us at Developer Day in Toronto on 9/26!

• Delete all work log entries from your issues (Jira Cloud) with Python

• Confluence Automation + Folders = Content Organization at Scale ❤️

• How to detect duplicate screens in Jira - part 2

• The Developer’s Edge | Improve DevEx with Compass Templates

• Mastering Light & Dark Themes in Forge Apps

• How to Compass Templates

• Updating dependent task's dates when predecessor task date changes

• Worst Jira Admin Contest: Four Smart Value Errors in One Automation Rule

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]

Thanks, @Jimmy Seddon - great roundup as always!

[Stephen_Lugton]

Thanks for the round up @Jimmy Seddon 

[Tuncay Senturk]

Many thanks for the roundup @Jimmy Seddon 

[Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_]

@Jimmy Seddon you're the best! Thank you for including me in the round up,

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

There are many great news here, but FOLDERS IN CONFLUENCE 😍 I've already been using and absolutely loving this new feature! 

[Susan Waldrip]

Great list, @Jimmy Seddon. Appreciate your time to do this!

[Fun Man Andy]

Thanks for the Shout Out @Jimmy Seddon !!

That session with @Andy Gladstone was just tooooo much fun. EPIC!!!!