How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
Five killer hidden features in JIRA and Confluence
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3. 5 Killer Hidden Features
For JIRA and Confluence admins
Christina Bang
Atlassian
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4. 6 Killer Hidden Features
For JIRA and Confluence admins
Christina Bang
Atlassian
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5. Who am I
• and why should you listen to me?
• 3 years at Atlassian
• ‘Sales Engineer’ means ‘answers technical questions’
• Never say ‘no’ without a ‘but...’
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6. Agenda
• Code stuff for both
• Confluence eye candy examples
• JIRA editing trick
• Takeaways
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13. A note: JavaScript & Speakeasy
• Those JavaScript examples
• Applied at admin level
• Global for all users on the instance
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14. A note: JavaScript & Speakeasy
• Those JavaScript examples • Speakeasy Extensions
• Applied at admin level • Can be JS, CSS, HTML
• Global for all users on the instance • Client-side
• Enabled per user, by the user
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15. JavaScript & Speakeasy
• Yesterday: Cory von Wallenstein’s talk ‘Product
Management 2.0’
Uses JavaScript for some of his Confluence tricks
• This morning: Don Brown’s talk on Speakeasy
All talks will be video on summit.atlassian.com
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17. Tip 2: HTML in banner
• JIRA & Confluence both have ‘announcement banner’
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18. Tip 2: HTML in banner
• JIRA & Confluence both have ‘announcement banner’
• Anything slick you want users to see
• Great for time-sensitive announcements
• Atlassian uses this on our own docs for planned downtime
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32. Tip 3: Eyes on the good stuff
• Content on Dashboard
• Site Welcome Message
• Dynamic, important content
• Using labels! ‘must-read’ label, ‘dashboard’ label, etc
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51. Tip 6: Simple edit dialog
• Opens in a dialog
• Returns you to original step
• Useful when you edit a subset of fields often
• No page refresh
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52. Tip 6: Simple edit dialog
If you want to learn more
Ken Olofsen, Plan & Track: Instant Updates talk (next!)
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53. “ Create a custom workflow transition for things that
you edit all the time.
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#summit11
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54. In sum
• Use JavaScript and HTML
• Lots of ways to get Confluence eyes on the good stuff
• Use loop transitions for common, small edits
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55. In sum
• What are ones you know? Let’s share!
• Decompression chamber
• Twitter: #JIRATips, #ConfluenceTips
• Comment on resources page: atlss.in/admintips
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