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4 New Jira Apps to Power up Jira Issues – Second Quarter 2019

August 29, 2019
#Jira
7 min

Whether you are a recent convert to Atlassian Jira or a power user, the Atlassian Marketplace list of Jira apps can be intimidating. Our quarterly selection of apps can be a great support for anyone looking to jump-start their collection.

You can try out the brand new apps released in the second quarter of 2019 we liked most:

Let’s see how these four add-ons can help you work more efficiently.

Create Confluence Custom Fields in Jira

You can use the Confluence Custom Fields app instead of just linking Confluence pages to Jira issues. With the help of this app you can use Confluence pages as data sources when you create new Jira issues. You just need to create some reference data in Confluence and after that go back to Jira and create and configure custom fields.

After that you can swiftly create new Jira issues and choose the required fields. This app also allows users to filter Confluence pages right in custom fields according to their requirements. Moreover, you can search for issues Confluence custom fields in JQL queries.

Check out this app to create a new custom field type Confluence Page Field.

Pricing: The Confluence Custom Fields app is free to use.

Plan Jira tasks wisely

Timeline for Jira helps you keep your team on the same page and effortlessly plan you tasks. Moreover, it can help you identify and prevent potential delays visualizing the overall progress of your project. This solution also allows you to see how many tasks each team member needs to fulfill. This way team leads can better understand if any of their team members is overloaded with work.

With the help of this app you can quickly create and manage informative timelines and use drag and drop to work with your issues faster. Timeline for Jira helps teams visualize work distribution and allocation.

Pricing: Timeline for Jira Server is free to use.

Prioritize Jira issues

If you want your team to focus on real company priorities, you can use Issue Score for Jira. This app helps you understand what to build next, boosts you team productivity and keeps things organized. Now you can rate and prioritize features to deliver more value to your customers with each release.

This add-on provides you with an easy to configure custom field to help product managers make better decisions.

You can easily prioritize features based on your key business metrics.

Pricing: The pricing for Issue Score for Jira Server starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $3,000 for 10,000+ users.

Keep project contacts at hand

If you’re missing a capability to store project contacts right in Jira, you need to check out the Project Contacts app. This neat solution adds related contacts to Jira issues. Now you can easily import and export your project contacts.

This app helps you view contact information from multiple Jira issues right in project admin settings.

Pricing: The pricing for Project Contacts for Jira Server starts from $160 for 25 users and ends at $3,040 for 10,000+ users.

If you are looking for some new interesting solutions for Jira, you can make your life easier with the above mentioned Jira apps. All you need to do is give a look and pick the one that suits your needs.

Check out our previous blog post and see our selection of Jira apps released in the first quarter of 2019. Share your picks of the most interesting apps for Jira in the comments below.

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    New Bitbucket Apps to Bolster Productivity – First Quarter 2019

    June 4, 2019
    #Bitbucket
    5 min

    Today we want to show you our pick of the most useful Bitbucket apps released in the first quarter of this year. We’ve chosen the most interesting ones that can help you bolster your team productivity and ease your work in Bitbucket.

    Let’s discuss each of these apps in more details.

    Add Groups to Pull Request

    Bitbucket allows you to add only individual users to pull request reviewers to notify them. Adding multiple users to this field can be a rather tedious and error-prone process. It also makes things complicated in case you have a team of people that performs code review and all the time you need to add all the members of this group to every pull request (especially if you have more than 20 RPs per day).

    The developers of Add Groups to Pull Request created the app that allows you to add a group of users or even multiple groups to a pull request. It can be very useful in situations when you don’t know every single individual of the team that will review your pull request. You can just add the required group of users. Moreover, you can also avoid the situation when all pull requests are assigned only to one person.

    The feature this simple tool suggests seems obvious and very useful to facilitate the code review process. Some more features are coming in the next release, stay tuned and we will update the blog post accordingly.

    Pricing: The price of Add Groups to Pull Request starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $500 for 2,000 users.

    Bitbucket PlantUML Viewer

    If you deal with PlantUML diagrams in project markdown files and want to use these diagrams in Bitbucket, Bitbucket PlantUML Viewer can be a great solution. This app allows you to view these files right in your source files in Bitbucket and this add-on is free to use.

    If you want to easily view your files in various formats right in Bitbucket, you can also try File Viewer for Bitbucket Server. This app can be very useful when you need to work with CSV and TSV files as tables in Bitbucket because it provides you with a detailed view with header and sorting capability.

    You can also use this solution to view STL files as 3D models right in Bitbucket spinning them and zooming them in and out. Moreover, you can view PDF files and toggle between the pages of your PDF document on the fly. And if you deal with GeoJSON files, you can interact with maps right on Bitbucket pages.

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

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      5 New Jira Apps to Automate Your Work – First Quarter 2019

      May 30, 2019
      #Jira
      10 min

      It is always great to find more clever ways to get things done with the help of new Jira apps. Our team takes a careful look at all new apps released every quarter on the Atlassian Marketplace to share the crème de la crème with you (smile).

      Here are some of the most interesting Jira apps launched between January 1st and March 31st this year:

      Let’s check them out to learn more about their capabilities.

      Zoom Integration for Jira Service Desk

      Zoom is one of the leading cloud-based video communication platforms for online conferencing, chats, and webinars. Last year Atlassian announced their partnership with Zoom. This will help Atlassian users to unleash their potential having the right set of integrated tools that perfectly work together.

      Zoom Integration for Jira Service Desk helps deliver the best customer service to Zoom and Atlassian users all over the world.

      Now a Zoom meeting with your colleagues and partners is just a click away in Jira. They can easily join discussions via desktop, mobile, or conference room from a simple link.

      You can create and schedule meetings related to specific issue directly in Jira. This app helps you to save the summary of the meeting adding a corresponding comment when you complete the meeting. If you recorded the meeting, all users can find its transcript and recording in Jira issue.

      Having a video meeting with your team and customers can help you resolve issues more efficiently and quickly. Try this free app to enjoy the power of team collaboration in Jira.

      Pricing: The Zoom Integration for Jira Service Desk app for Jira Cloud is free to use.

      Epic Time Tracking for Jira

      Epic Time Tracking for Jira is an efficient tool that helps you get a detailed overview of your rolled-up hours at a glance for an epic across multiple issues.

      Jira issues get an additional panel that allows you to track time estimated, time remaining, and time logged to the epic. You can view the issues and their estimates clicking any of these tabs.

      You can also easily access a summary of the child issues on the epic. This table contains all the required information to get a quick overview.

      This tool helps you keep an eye on the work logged on your epics getting the total hours logged and initial estimated of all the issues assigned to the epic.

      Pricing: The price of Epic Time Tracking for Jira Server starts from $17 for 25 users and ends at $800 for 10,000+ users.

      Action Undo For Jira

      Action Undo For Jira is a simple tool that can be very helpful for every Jira user. It allows you to cancel any action done to a Jira issue. You can either click the Undo button in the More menu or you just use the Z+Z shortcut combination. This action refreshes the page and the last action in the issue history will be reverted.

      Moreover, you can undo actions of other users if you have permissions to edit the relevant fields and issues. This app allows you to undo actions several times in a row skipping the undo actions and the action you’ve already cancelled.

      Pricing: The price of the Action Undo For Jira app for Jira Server starts from $75 for 25 users and ends at $3,000 for 10,000+ users.

      Multiple Checklists for Jira

      Teams of all sizes use checklists to track their tasks and work smarter. Multiple Checklists for Jira is an app that helps you break large tasks into smaller pieces to get them done faster. You can create as many checklists as you need in one Jira issue. This app allows you to use checklist templates you can assign to projects and issue types. Moreover, you can automatically add checklists to newly created issues.

      Of course, you can quickly add, rename, delete or reorganize any item in your checklist.

      This flexible tool helps you effectively measure progress on your projects providing you with a snapshot of key tasks and milestones per issue.

      Pricing: The Multiple Checklists for Jira app pricing for Jira Cloud starts at $8/mo for 20 users and ends at $1,035/mo for 5,000 users. The price of this app for Jira Server starts from $160 for 25 users and ends at $3,040 for 10,000+ users.

      Testify for Jira – Simple Test Server

      Testify for Jira – Simple Test Server is an app that helps you simplify the process of testing of your production environment. It allows you to easily configure your testing Jira instance with environment variables.

      You can install this add-on both in production and test environments enabling it once you need it. You activate a bunch of features when you set the environment variable TESTIFY_ACTIVE=true:

      • The color of the Jira menu bar turns red
      • The app disables mail function

      You can also set other environment variable to facilitate you tests:

      • Use TESTIFY_LICENSE=<license> to overwrite the Jira application license
      • Use TESTIFY_BASEURL=<url> to change the base URL to match the new staging instance

      This app saves your time and effort helping you easily distinguish staging from production.

      Pricing: The price of Testify for Jira – Simple Test Server for Jira Server starts from $120 for 25 users and ends at $6,000 for 10,000+ users.

      If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post below. Tell us more about your favorite Jira apps.

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        5 New Confluence Apps to Work Smarter – First Quarter 2019

        May 14, 2019
        #Confluence
        11 min

        We’re back with an all-new list of five Confluence apps released in the first quarter of this year. We’ve chosen the tools that can help you make your life easier, and help you get the most out of your Confluence instance. We hope that you will add these solutions to your list of add-ons you want to try.

        You can also check our previous blog post featuring useful apps for Confluence released in the fourth quarter of 2018.

        These newest apps can enhance your Confluence experience:

        So without further ado, let’s see each tool in details.

        Purge Page Versions

        Once you modify any page, Confluence creates a new version of it. These way you can keep track of all the content changes. Moreover, you can compare different page versions and restore the one if you need. However, sometimes the page version history can go beyond than you expected.

        Purge Page Versions is an app that helps you to purge the old page versions. You can do it either automatically or on-demand basis. Just click the Purge Versions tab to open the page history.

        Now you can easily choose the versions you need to purge.

        This app also allows you to add the Page Version Summary gadget to your Confluence pages. This way you can keep track of all versions of your pages per space and easily navigate between them.

        This simple app helps you keep Confluence database compact and quickly purge the page versions you do not need.

        Pricing: The Purge Page Versions app for Confluence Server is free to use.

        Visual Macro for Confluence

        The Visual Macro for Confluence app allows you to share important information with your colleagues. You can decide where and when to show content blocks on Confluence pages. Just choose the required conditions in the menu of Visual Macro.

        You can select the view type and device type. This means that if you check the Word and PDF boxes, the content block will be visible only when users export this Confluence page to Word or PDF.

        You can also select users and user groups that will see the required information.

        You can even set the date to display the content block.

        This app can be helpful when you want your users to see some important information on specific dates in specific circumstances.

        The developer doesn’t recommend to use this app to secure any sensitive information.

        Pricing: The pricing for Visual Macro for Confluence Server starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $999 for the unlimited number of users.

        Kipwise – Search Confluence on Slack

        In one of our previous blog posts, we’ve highlighted the Confluence Cloud for Slack (Official) app. It is a free integration that helps you keep an eye on your Confluence work right from Slack.

        This time we want to show you a solid software that is sold separately from Confluence and helps you search Confluence content in Slack. Kipwise – Search Confluence on Slack allows users to find the required Confluence information directly on Slack using simple slash command.

        With the help of this tool your team saves time because they can access the information they are looking for without searching around different places with no need to use various tools.

        Pricing: The Kipwise – Search Confluence Cloud on Slack app is free to use.

        Linchpin Intranet Suite

        Linchpin Intranet Suite empowers Confluence making team collaboration even more effective. After installation of this app you receive a number of plugins you can enable and tailor them to the individual needs of your colleagues: new, events, blogs, and more. This means that Linchpin Intranet Suite will show you the information based on your profile settings (language, news feed, department, location, etc.). You can easily personalize the look and feel of Confluence with the help of this app. This add-on allows you to integrate your menu with the Confluence header. You can also choose your menu style.

        You can add important events and share them with your colleagues. With the help of this app you can create your own blog to exchange ideas, ask questions and just chat with your team mates.

        This useful app provides you with a collaboration hub right in Confluence. Now you can build an interactive knowledge base together with your team.

        Pricing: The pricing for the Linchpin Intranet Suite app for Confluence Server starts from $2,500 for 25 users and ends at $52,000 for the unlimited number of users.

        Permission Helper

        The daily life of a Confluence administrator can be complex. Especially when they need to quickly understand why a user or a group of users can or can’t access a certain page or space. Permission Helper can be a nice solution of this challenge. It helps Confluence administrators to have an overview of user and group permissions.

        You can access the settings either in the space tools menu or in the setting menu of the Confluence header.

        This app allows you to quickly understand the reason some user can’t access a certain page.

        Use this solution to easily troubleshoot the problems your users encounter when they deal with page and space permissions.

        Pricing: The pricing for the Permission Helper app for Confluence Server starts from $15 for 25 users and ends at $1,200 for the unlimited number of users.

        This is our selection of the most interesting Confluence apps released between January 1st and March 31st this year. We hope that each of these apps can help you get more done in less time.

        If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post below. Tell us more about your favorite Confluence apps.

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          3 New Bitbucket Apps to Take Care of Your PRs – Fourth Quarter 2018

          January 31, 2019
          #How To#Bitbucket
          7 min

          It can be a bit hard to keep up with all of the great new apps that appear on the Atlassian Marketplace every quarter. Luckily, we are doing the work for you and share our picks of the most interesting solutions for Atlassian products in our blog. This time we’ve chosen the most interesting apps for Bitbucket users released between October 1 and December 31.

          Check out our top 3 apps for Bitbucket Server:

          Here are the best Bitbucket apps released in the first, second and third quarters of 2018 you may have missed.

          You can also try Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket for free, this app helps you analyze the average time taken to resolve pull requests and build even more useful reports to visualize your team’s work. Learn more about how this solution can make your life easier.

          Pull Request Labels

          Pull Request Labels is an app that helps you assign labels to your pull requests to better organize your work on projects. For a big project with lots of contributors and pull requests, the capability to label PRs seems invaluable. This way all members of your team can get quick insights into a pull request seeing its state and purpose.

          After you created a label, you can use it for any pull request within the repository it is tied to signifying its priority or any other information you find useful. You can easily manage and edit labels staying on the pull request page by clicking the Edit button.

          So when you open a pull request and want your colleague to review it, you can now mark it with the Review Required label letting others know that your PR is ready for review. Just find the required label in the drop-down menu.

          You can check all labels related to the PR in the pull request table.

          This app is currently in alpha stage and its developer is planning to add more features in the nearest future.

          Pricing: Pull Request Labels is free to use.

          Prevent merge when needs work

          When you work with multiple reviewers on your pull requests, you may want to prevent merge in case one of your colleagues marks the pull request as ‘Needs Work. Prevent merge when needs work is an app that makes your merge operations easier.

          Now you can disable the Merge button when one of reviewers sets the Needs Work status on a pull request preventing the automerge.

          When one of your teammates commits new changes after approval, all approvals will be deleted.

          Pricing: Prevent merge when needs work is free to use.

          Pull request’s dependencies

          Pull request’s dependencies is a useful app if you are working on several separate projects in different Bitbucket repositories and need to make changes in one project that will later require an update to another project. Now you can create and add dependencies to all open pull requests choosing the type of dependency (blocking or non blocking).

          This app prevents you from merging PRs with open pull requests in dependencies. You can see the detailed list of related dependencies with their statuses.

          You can add several dependent pull requests from any project and repository. If you activate the Is blocker for merge option during this process, you can close the current pull request only when the linked one is closed.

          This app also allows you to remove any irrelevant dependencies.

          Pricing: The price of Pull request’s dependencies starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $2,000 for 2,000 users.

          If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this blog post. Stay tuned and subscribe for email notifications about new posts in our blog – enter your email in the ‘Newsletter’ section on the sidebar.

           

           

           

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            5 New Jira Apps to Simplify Processes – Fourth Quarter 2018

            January 24, 2019
            #How To#Jira
            12 min

            A lot of Jira apps are released in the span of every quarter. We’ve been digging through the Atlassian Marketplace to find the best ones released between October 1 and December 31. So we’ve prepared a new batch of fresh app recommendations, each of which helps you increase your productivity and free up your time.

            Enjoy our list of the most useful Jira apps of the fourth quarter, including:

            You can also check out our previous selections of the most interesting Jira apps in the first, the second and the third quarters of 2018.

            Power Admin

            Managing your work effectively as an admin is not an easy task. Especially when you feel overwhelmed with your current tool configuration, or if you only start your Atlassian experience. In these cases making smart decisions with lots of custom fields, workflows and screens can be challenging.

            Power Admin is a must-have app for Jira administrators because it helps teams of all sizes easily optimize and manage complex Jira configurations. Now you can search the required configuration element by its ID or name to make sure it is configured properly.

            You will get the full information about the usage of the element you’ve chosen. You can learn more about its usage in Projects and Issues and easily navigate to them. This solution also helps you to quickly locate elements that your team uses rarely.

            Moreover, this add-on allows you to understand dependencies between various configuration elements in Jira and analyze their usage and change impact.

            Pricing: The Power Admin app (Server and Data Center) is free to use.

            Field Templates for Jira

            Most likely many of you faced a problem when you need to create an issue by template stored, for example, on a Confluence page, or your team has well-defined working process and strict instructions and every comment must follow the precise standards. Or perhaps you just want to help users provide necessary information in created issues.

            Field Templates for Jira is a simple and useful app that allows you to save your time on routine operations. This plugin has 2 modules: Field Templates (Issue Fields tab) and Comment Templates (Comment tab).

            The Field Templates section lets project administrators create templates for issue text fields. This distinctive feature helps you create predefined values not only for custom text fields but also for system fields like Description or Summary. This way you can balance the lack of native Jira feature to set default values for system fields.

            The Comment Templates (Comment tab) section allows to predefine templates for comments in a project. This is an ideal solution to help you standardize your team’s answers, minimize time needed to write a typical comment or simply get rid of uninformative answers like “Done”.

            As bonus you can set up template visibility based on:

            • Issue type
            • User project role

            So making some templates visible only in Bugs by QA team while others can see their own, is not a problem at all. It can be a great flexibility option in a multi team project.

            Pricing: The price of Field Templates for Jira Server starts from $50 for 25 users and ends at $1,100 for 10,000+ users.

            SoftComply Risk Manager Plus

            Risk management is one of the most important QA activities in development of safety-critical devices and software. Let’s face it. Even the most carefully planned project can encounter unexpected problems. So it seems a good idea to use risk planning to identify potential problems that could cause trouble for your project

            SoftComply Risk Manager Plus is a smart app that allows you to manage, report and track safety-critical product risks identifying potential problems and analyzing how likely they are to occur. This customizable risk management solution for Hazard Analysis supports FME(C)A with or without Detectability parameter.

            The intuitive interface of this app allows you to easily filter, edit, remove or add risks. Moreover, you also can import risks from another system instead of entering them manually.

            Now you can easily visualize your risks to mitigate them quicker. The table has two columns that describe the mitigation actions. You can take your risk management to the next level with automated links between risks, risk controls and test cases.

            Use this handy app to take action to prevent the risks you can avoid and minimize the ones that you can’t.

            Pricing: The price of SoftComply Risk Manager Plus for Jira Server starts from $1,500 for 25 users and ends at $45,000 for 10,000+ users.

            Anonymized Project View for Jira

            Anonymized Project View for Jira is an app that anonymizes user communication between customers and contractors that work in the same Jira project. This solution can be a lifesaver for the teams that work in Germany or have German customers because it conforms to the Fremdarbeitskräfte (FAK) standard for having non-personal direct communication between project teams from different companies.

            The best thing is that this app anonymizes names of other company users in all project views on the fly, without database changes. However, the anonymization does not affect system administrators because they can still see original names of all users.

            Contractors and customers can enjoy Jira functionality, including FAK-compliant communication.

            This app facilitates collaboration between internal and external project teams anonymizing their name and keeping all parties in the loop.

            Pricing: The price of Anonymized Project View for Jira Server starts from $650 for 25 users and ends at $13,200 for 10,000+ users.

            Global Issue Notifications for Jira

            Global Issue Notifications for Jira helps you add your own custom project notifications for Jira Core, Software and Servicedesk based on your own JQL queries. Now you can keep track of your issues by the given JQL rules. You can also configure the redirect location for individual project notifications. You can configure where the JQL rules redirect your users and define the recipients of notification.

            You can always quickly check your notifications in Jira and navigate directly to the configured pages in one click.

            This add-on allows you to keep track of Jira issues that you are actively interacting with or need to follow up on. You can also get notifications about new, unassigned and expired issues.

            Pricing: Global Issue Notifications for Jira is a paid-via-vendor app.

            If this list of Jira apps wasn’t enough, you can find more on the Atlassian Marketplace. Don’t forget to subscribe for email notifications about new blog posts in this series! You can try any of these apps for free and make your own choice.

            If we missed any great new Jira apps, tell us about them in the comments!

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