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5 New Add-ons to Get More Done in JIRA – Second Quarter 2017

July 27, 2017
#News#Jira
11 min

We at StiltSoft review the latest add-ons for Atlassian products every quarter of the year to provide you with the most useful extensions on the Marketplace.

Last week we published the blog post about Top 5 new add-ons for Confluence. This time we have checked about 100 JIRA add-ons that had their first release during April-June 2017 and we are ready to share the most interesting ones with you.

If for some reason you have missed our previous review, check the list of JIRA add-ons featured in the first quarter of this year.

Today we present you with the five new add-ons for JIRA Server that can improve your work:

Let’s take a closer look at each of these solutions.

Cleaner for JIRA

This add-on gives you a great chance to optimize your JIRA system. It scans the system, detects the unused elements that might affect your JIRA performance, and provides you with a range of possible improvements. So how does it work?

Once you initiate the system diagnostics with Cleaner for JIRA, the scanner builds a model of your JIRA and outputs the list of the found issues to address.

You can navigate through the tabs to view the details of scanning. This add-on provides you with the list of potential problems and possible solutions in each module of your issue tracking system.

Moreover, Cleaner for JIRA optimizes your license usage and saves money because it easily detects inactive users. So you can quickly disable those who haven’t logged in within the last 3 months.

Additionally, you can instantly identify the unused items in projects, issue types, issue type schemes, workflows, and screens. Cleaner for JIRA also checks whether custom fields have been appropriately scoped using contexts with the help of the deep-dive functionality.

This tool lets you speed up the indexing time and easily browse through various configuration items.

Pricing: The price of the add-on starts from $10 for 10 users and ends at $2400 for 10000+ users.

Spectrum Timesheets

Spectrum Timesheets is a time tracking tool that uses JIRA native worklog features. Note that the Timesheet builds the view based only on the issues where you have entered worklogs.

You can easily configure a timesheet depending on your needs. This add-on allows you to track your activity outside of working hours.

You can access the timesheet from the personal profile menu and filter the timesheet by projects, project categories, issues, and issue types. You can choose any timespan you need.

One of the advantages of this add-on is that it allows you to add your worklog right from your timesheet view and manage non-working hours and days by pressing the plus sign for a specific day in the table.

You can also find the plus sign near the OFF days section to track time on activities spent during non-working days.

Besides the personal timesheet you can also get an all-in-one view for the selected users or projects to keep track on what your colleagues are working on.

Pricing: The pricing for the annual license starts from $10 for 10 users and ends at $6000 for 10000+ users.

Compact Cards for JIRA

This add-on for JIRA might be essential for the teams who deal with an endless backlog because it reduces the size of backlog items and sprint cards. This tool allows more items and cards to be displayed on the screen.

This add-on can be useful for the teams who have lots of work to display on the boards in JIRA. It is a nice solution if you want to track your activity on the project during daily meetings with your colleagues.

Pricing: The add-on price starts at $10 for 10 users and and ends at $1000 for 10000+ users.

Projects Organizer for JIRA

This add-on works like a browser for your projects. So you can easily organize the existing projects and categorize them.

Projects Organizer lets you group projects and keep them in the pre-defined hierarchy. The good thing is that you can add any number of groups with any nesting level.

This add-on helps you filter the existing projects by group, lead, issue type scheme, and permission scheme. You can perform bulk operations with your projects: change their groups, categories, screen schemes, and other configuration parameters.

This add-on is a handy tool to keep your project configurations in perfect order. You can browse the existing projects by groups and by leads.

Pricing: The price of Project Organizer for JIRA Server is: $10 for 10 users, $15 for 25 users, $30 for 50 users and so on. For this price you’ll get a really wide range of capabilities for effective management of your projects settings.

Reminder for JIRA

Reminder for JIRA is an add-on to notify you of everything you might forget about. Feel free to create reminders for the tasks and issues that are important to you and your team.

You can create quick reminders choosing today, tomorrow and so on with no need to choose the required date in your calendar.

As a JIRA administrator you can overview the list of all existing reminders and easily remove any of them.

Pricing: Reminder for JIRA from Teamlead is free to use.

These were our top 5 add-ons of the second quarter of 2017. All add-ons from this blog post will help you to keep your information in JIRA in order and will definitely make your work more efficient. So go ahead and try them for free.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post.

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    Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Third Quarter 2016

    November 3, 2016
    #Jira
    0 min

    The three quarters of 2016 have passed. What does it mean?

    It means that it’s high time to publish the next article in our quarterly series of “Top 5 New Add-ons for JIRA” posts.

    Continue reading “Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Third Quarter 2016”

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      Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Second Quarter 2016

      July 22, 2016
      #Jira
      1 min

      This year we’ve already published our traditional top 5 selection of add-ons for JIRA of the first quarter of 2016.

      Continue reading “Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Second Quarter 2016”

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        Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Fourth Quarter 2015

        February 9, 2016
        #Jira
        2 min

        Last week we published the post about Top 5 new add-ons for Confluence. Today’s article features five of the best new plugins for Atlassian JIRA appeared on Atlassian Marketplace during the 4th quarter of 2015. In our blog, you can also find posts that highlighted top 5 add-ons for JIRA for the first, second and third quarters of 2015.

        Top 5 new add-ons for JIRA that had their first release during October – December 2015:

        Continue reading “Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Fourth Quarter 2015”

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          Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Third Quarter 2015

          November 26, 2015
          #Jira
          12 min

          Today’s article is a part of the series of quarterly posts ‘Top New Add-ons for Atlassian Products’ and covers some of the best add-ons appeared on Atlassian Marketplace during the 3rd quarter of 2015. If you are new to our blog, check out earlier posts that featured top 5 add-ons for JIRA for the first and second quarters of 2015.

          Interested in finding out about new add-ons for Confluence as well? Read Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian Confluence – Third Quarter 2015.

          So let’s take a look at the top new add-ons for JIRA that had their first release during July – September 2015.

          Top 5 new add-ons for JIRA:

          Keep reading and you’ll get a general idea about these add-ons to see if some of them are the tools you have been waiting for.

          1. Refined Todo for JIRA

          With Refined Todo for JIRA you can create and manage personal to-do lists right in JIRA and connect them to JIRA issues. No integrations are required.

          This add-on allows you to easily make your own lists of things that are to be done, so that you wouldn’t forget small, but important tasks and wouldn’t need to keep everything in mind.

          After installing the add-on, users can see a new link, My Todos, in the JIRA header. My Todos page is unique for each user and includes their personal tasks not visible to the rest of the team.

          Below is the view of the My Todos page:

          On this page you can create new tasks on the fly by using the Todo creation field or by adding todos inline – as you click on the area between two todos, a Todo creation field appears in that place.

          While adding a new to-do, you can tag it, set up a reminder and a deadline, mark whether it is something you are going to do in the near future or some time later.

          All your tasks are arranged in two sections: Now and Later. So future tasks don’t mix up with the to-dos that you should focus on in the mean time.

          Click a task to see its detailed view on the sidebar, where you can add description and connect to a JIRA issue.

          You can sort to-dos and filter them by tag and JIRA issue.

          There are notifications about tasks that have their deadline on that day and alarms based on a reminder you have set for a task. When a task is done, you just mark a checkbox and it becomes completed.

          On a JIRA issue page, you can see all to-dos connected to it and add new to-dos as well.

          Your To-do lists don’t get overloaded with completed tasks thanks to the Archiving old todos configuration.

          Pricing: Refined Todo for JIRA is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 400$ for 25 users; 750$ for 50 users 1500$ for 100 users. Try it

          2. JExcel

          JExcel makes work in JIRA similar to working in Excel. This add-on can help you land your non-IT people into JIRA, as they will avoid JIRA complexity. It basically turns JIRA into Excel-like tool that is quite intuitive for users familiar with Excel. JIRA power users can also find this plugin helpful if they are looking for a tool for in-place issue editing and creation.

          The idea is that you create a workbook on the JExcel page in JIRA by selecting JIRA projects or filters and have the corresponding issues displayed in a table that reminds an Excel table.

          It is not only the UI that users will find similar to what they are used to in Excel, but major operations, such as issue creation and editing, column filtering and sorting are also performed in a familiar way.

          Additional capabilities:

          • Copy&Paste from MS Excel/Notepad
          • Exporting or printing workbook content
          • Changing issue status
          • Calculating Average/Count/Sum of the selected cells
          • Column renaming, reordering and resizing
          • Working with thousands of issues without reload a page (paging, filtering, sorting)
          • Column freeze
          • Tab coloring

          Pricing: JExcel is available for Server instances and is free. Try it

          3. SQL for JIRA – JQL to SQL conversion

          SQL for JIRA – JQL to SQL conversion wraps the JIRA Java API with standard SQL in read-only mode allowing JIRA users to execute SQL inquiries and build powerful JDBC/SQL standard reports. The plugin doesn’t require the direct access to the legacy database, as this plugin creates its own relational database engine in memory and all SQL queries are resolved against the JIRA Java API via JDBC over the HTTP protocol. The in-memory database is JIRA user’s context aware and data is being returned based on the permissions of a logged in JIRA user.

          The SQL queries can be executed in several ways:

          • Using the built-in SQL web console, which allows to perform SQL from the JIRA web application
          • Via any industry-standard reporting tool supporting JDBC (BIRT, Pentaho, JasperReports, your own corporate applications or JIRA plugins, etc.) using a native JDBC Driver that is provided to access JIRA data remotely
          • By embedding SQL queries in JQL queries for issue filtration to overcome JQL limitations, use aggregation functions (SUM, COUNT, AVG, etc.) and access JIRA data unavailable from JQL

          Kinto Soft also provides two free add-ons that extend the functionality of SQL for JIRA:

          • SQL for JIRA Reports & Gadgets – allows to create reports visually from Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) and embed them in JIRA Dashboards with tables, charts, runtime parameters, scripting, events, etc.
          • SQL for JIRA Custom Fields – allows to embed SQL for JIRA query results in issue custom fields (text and tables) available on the Issue Detail View

          Pricing: SQL for JIRA – JQL to SQL conversion is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 300$ for 25 users; 550$ for 50 users; 1000$ for 100 users. Try it

          4. Image Annotator for JIRA

          Sometimes it’s faster and easier to share your feedback by showing than by describing with words. In such cases Image Annotator for JIRA comes in handy as it allows to annotate graphics files attached to JIRA issues, such as screenshots, pictures and mock-ups right in JIRA.

          To annotate an image attachment, a user is supposed to have the permission to delete that attachment based on project and issue permissions.

          How it works:

          • navigate to an issue of your choice
          • in JIRA issue view, locate an image attachment you would like to annotate, hover it and click the Edit icon
          • in Annotator popup, draw something (lines, arrows, rectangles and freehand) or add text using available tools, actions and options
          • save annotations to the original file or a new one and it’s done

          JPEG and PNG file formats are supported (BMP files can be annotated in Mozilla Firefox).

          Pricing: Image Annotator for JIRA is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 60$ for 25 users; 110$ for 50 users; 200$ for 100 users. Try it

          5. Teams for JIRA Service Desk

          With Teams for JIRA Service Desk you can create teams and associate users and groups with them so that customers could participate in service requests of their team mates.

          After installation, you should do the initial set up:

          • select a technical user that will be used in API requests
          • create teams and associate users and groups with them
          • add Team custom field to the Create and View screens for your Service Desk agent and to the customer request form in JIRA Service Desk
          • enable ‘Customers can add participants to their requests’ in your Service Desk project settings

          Once done, users that belong to a certain team can browse service requests created by other members of their team on the portal and join requests by clicking the corresponding button.

          If a user is associated with several teams, when creating a request they can choose which team it should be shared with.

          There is also an option to allow customers to create private requests that will not be available to the team.

          Pricing: Teams for JIRA Service Desk is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 300$ for 25 users; 550$ for 50 users 1000$ for 100 users. Try it

          If you get any questions, feel free to ask them in comments below or email me at kkolina@stiltsoft.com.

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            Top 5 New Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA – Second Quarter 2015

            July 15, 2015
            #Jira
            9 min

            One of our April posts highlighted top 5 new add-ons for Atlassian JIRA of the 1st quarter of 2015 as a part of the series of quarterly posts ‘Top New Add-ons for Atlassian Products’. Last week the first post of the 2nd quarter was published with add-ons for Confluence. Today let’s overview top new add-ons for JIRA that had their first release during April-June 2015.

            Top 5 new add-ons for JIRA:

            This post will cover the problems the add-ons can solve, possible benefits for you and pricing.

            1. Kanoah Tests

            For those who would like to extend JIRA functions of issue tracking and project management to test case management, Kanoah Tests is another tool to put on the list of plugins and integrations that add capabilities needed to manage test cases in JIRA. It doesn’t require external integration.

            With this plugin it’s possible to:

            • create and run test cases, test cases can be added one-by-one or in bulk
            • organize test cases into folders and sub-folders
            • create test plans and fill them with selected test cases
            • add test runs for test plans, execute them and track that execution
            • view charts and reports (with statuses of the test plan execution; time spent executing a test plan; status and time breakdown per tester, component, label; estimated vs actual execution time; test results)
            • integrate JIRA issues and test cases (creating issues or linking to existing issues while creating and running test cases; assigning test cases to an issue, running test cases linked to an issue while viewing an issue)
            • attach files while creating or executing test cases
            • configure environments, iterations, test case statuses and labels

            Pricing: Kanoah Tests is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 1400$ for 50 users (700$ for 25 users; 2800$ for 100 users).

            Try it

            2. Mapit for JIRA

            With Mapit for JIRA you can geotag your JIRA issues and view them on a map in the Mapit dashboard gadget. Geographical location of an issue can be the place where an issue is originated from or where the work on it should be done.

            Some more features and details:

            • choose what issues to display on the map by selecting favorite filters
            • create new issues from the map
            • view issue information in a pop-up box that opens upon a click on a pin
            • pins representing issues are colored based on status
            • address search
            • add latitude and longitude in issue custom fields to geotag them

            Pricing: Mapit for JIRA is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 400$ for 50 users (200$ for 25 users; 600$ for 100 users).

            Try it

            If geotagging issues is something you’ve been waiting for, you might want to check out another new add-on for JIRA Server, Maprosoft Issue Location Reporting. It’s free and allows you to specify issue location using map, address or device location.

            3. Connect and Synchronize JIRA Instances

            Connect and Synchronize JIRA Instances is for those who’d like to set communication between two JIRA instances, archive old JIRA issues in another JIRA instance, integrate JIRA instances of different departments within one company, broadcast to multiple JIRA instances or isolate issues and secure data that is sensitive.

            With this add-on it’s possible to:

            • choose what projects and issue types to have synchronization enabled for
            • map local and remote fields
            • select event-based triggers that start synchronization
            • decide whether comments and attachments should be synchronized

            Several communication models are supported:

            • one-way (outgoing): issues are replicated from an active instance to a passive one
            • two-way (dual): issues of two active instances are kept head-to-head
            • internal: one active JIRA instance communicates with itself
            • broadcast: issues are tracked in one-to-many relationship
            • push & pull between two JIRA instances (one active, another passive) behind a firewall

            Pricing: Connect and Synchronize JIRA Instances is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 1000$ for 50 users (500$ for 25 users; 1500$ for 100 users).

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            4. Secure Login via 2-Factor Authentication

            Secure Login via 2-Factor Authentication is based on RFC 6238 and provides a second level of authentication to a JIRA account log-in to make your account more secure.

            With this add-on, besides username and password a user will need to enter a PIN code each time he or she logs into JIRA. This PIN code is generated by an authenticator app on a mobile device connected to your JIRA account and is valid for half a minute. Communicating to a third-party system is not required and different authenticator apps are supported.

            Pricing: Secure Login via 2-Factor Authentication is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 750$ for 50 users (500$ for 25 users; 1000$ for 100 users).

            Try it

            5. KCF PRO

            With KCF PRO it’s possible to create custom fields with dynamic select lists. It’s very useful in large projects and helps deal with the performance of loading huge data sets from various sources. There are two types of data source, SQL and SIL.

            Custom field type options:

            • Select lists (simple or with auto-complete, single or multiple)
            • Radio buttons
            • Checkboxes

            Multiple renderers are available and they look like standard JIRA lists: issue, component, project version, project, group, user. Moreover, in combination with JJUPIN, KCF PRO allows you to set dependent fields. If a custom field has dependencies, it will be populated with values based on what a user has selected in a defined field in the current or previous screens.

            Pricing: KCF PRO is available for Server instances. Its commercial license costs 100$ for 50 users (50$ for 25 users; 175$ for 100 users).

            Try it

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