Atlassian Cloud changes Jun 13 to Jun 20, 2022

These changes have recently been rolled out to Atlassian Cloud sites.

Changes labeled ROLLING OUT are being gradually rolled out and may not be on your site just yet.

Atlassian Cloud

Your cloud-hosted products are supported by the Atlassian Cloud platform. This section usually includes changes related to multiple Atlassian Cloud products, site administration, and user management.

Create a Mobile App Management (MAM) policy

NEW THIS WEEK

Admins can now configure security controls for users' iOS and Android devices – like clipboard restrictions, data protection, and device security – by creating a Mobile App Management (MAM) policy.

To create a policy for the Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud mobile apps:

1. From your organization administration, select Security.
2. Select Mobile policy > Create mobile policy.

This is available as part of an Atlassian Access subscription.

Control your workflow more easily by connecting one or more identity providers

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We’re giving you the ability to manage a variety of business and information security requirements. You’ll now have the flexibility to connect more than one identity provider to your Atlassian organization. We also simplified the workflow for managing user authentication and provisioning. You can now do it from one place.

You now have two types of directories for managing users in your organization: a local directory and an identity provider directory. The key changes are:

  • We moved user login and sync to the new Identity providers screen
  • You have two authentication policies by default: one for your local directory and one for your identity provider
  • We automatically associate your domain’s user accounts with a linked directory.

Learn more about identity providers

To see your identity provider directory, go to admin.atlassian.com > Security > Identity providers.

Jira platform

Changes in this section usually apply to all Jira products. We'll tell you in the change description if something is only for a specific Jira product.

Create Confluence pages with Jira automation

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

You can now create Confluence pages using Jira automation, unlocking a lot of cool new possibilities for your automation rules. For example, when a sprint ends, you could automatically have a page created for your retro notes. Learn more about using Jira automation with Confluence

To give this a try:

  1. Navigate to your Jira project and select Project settings > Automation.
  2. Select Create rule.
  3. Choose a trigger for your rule, and then select the Create Confluence page action.

You'll also need to set up a connection between Confluence and your Jira project. Learn more about connections in automation.

Company-managed projects: Easily find issues after you've created them

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

Have you ever created an issue on a board in a company-managed project, and wondered where it went? "Why can't I see it on the board"? you may have asked. Well, that scenario is history, my friend. Now, when you create an issue on a board, a flag will appear and notify you if the issue isn't visible on the board, and explain why. (For example, perhaps it was assigned to a different sprint, or your board has active filters which exclude it.) The flag will also include a link to view the issue, and a link to add it to your current sprint (if applicable).

Dashboards: Restore dashboards from the trash

NEW THIS WEEK

We heard there are times you want a dashboard back after you delete it, so we’re adding the option to trash a dashboard instead of deleting it right away. Trashed dashboards can be restored until they’re permanently deleted after 60 days. Learn more about managing shared dashboards.

Delete knowledge base drafts

NEW THIS WEEK

Manage your unpublished articles and remove clutter by deleting drafts you no longer need from your knowledge base.

Limiting the number of child issues displayed on the issue view

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

To plan for a future performance improvement, we’re limiting the number of child issues displayed on an issue to 100. You can still have more than 100 child issues on an issue, but you’ll have to view them in search.

Filter issues in JQL by hierarchy level

NEW THIS WEEK

Add a filter to your JQL query to only show issues of a certain hierarchy level. This field uses numbers that correlate to hierarchy levels. Currently, this field doesn’t support custom hierarchy levels made in Advanced Roadmaps.

Learn more about this new JQL field in the Jira Software Cloud documentation.

Allow domain-based signups for internal customers

NEW THIS WEEK

Previously when an internal customer, such as an employee at your company, raised a request for the first time, a portal-only account was generated if an Atlassian account hasn't previously been provisioned for them.

To avoid multiple account conflicts*,* we've introduced the capability to create Atlassian accounts for your internal customers via portal signup, based on their email domain. Once enabled, Atlassian accounts will be created for customers with an email domain on your site's approved domains. Learn more about what's coming to customer access settings

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - Export a static screenshot (.png) of your plan

NEW THIS WEEK

When you're presenting your roadmap to stakeholders and colleagues alike, you can now quote the beloved Nickelback and say "Look at this photograph..."

That's right, you can now export a screenshot of your plan in Advanced Roadmaps using the Export to a image (.png) function. To use it, set your timeline to show the issues that you want to include in your screenshot, then use Share as > image (.png).

Learn more about exporting your timeline as an image

Advanced Roadmaps is included with all Jira Software Cloud Premium and Enterprise subscriptions.

New request type configuration experience

ROLLING OUT

Configure your request forms with ease, using a fresh drag and drop experience!

Learn how to configure your request types.

QR code enabled in Insight for Jira Service Management

ROLLING OUT

To help you manage physical assets, we've added the ability to print QR codes to Insight in Jira Service Management Cloud. Printed QR codes can be applied to physical assets and then scanned to quickly find information about that object in Insight.

You can print QR codes for multiple objects by selecting Bulk actions > Print QR codes.

Learn more about printing QR codes in Insight for Jira Service Management Cloud.

Issue view: Expands in fields and comments

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You can now use expands in fields and comments on the issue view. Your team can use expands to show and hide long or secondary information that doesn't need to always be displayed. To try it out, start editing a text field or comment and select + > Expand in the editor toolbar.

New Import Jira Server and Import Jira Cloud screens replaces the Restore system screen

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The Restore system option, also commonly referred to as Site Import enabled you to import:

  • Jira server backup files to migrate from Jira server to cloud
  • Jira cloud backup files to reset the cloud site among other reasons

Recently, we announced that Site Import won’t be available for some users looking to import server backups to migrate from server to cloud. To make sure that users who want to import cloud backups aren’t impacted, we’ve now split Site Import into two screens.

  • To import server backups, go to Settings > System > Import Jira Server
  • To import cloud backups, go to Settings > System > Import Jira Cloud

Push notifications can now be time-sensitive on iOS

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Collaboration just got faster in the Jira Cloud app for iOS. Direct mentions and ‘assigned to you’ push notifications can now be treated as time-sensitive, which means you’ll receive them even if your notifications are snoozed. Disable time-sensitive notifications via system settings.

New keyboard shortcuts have arrived

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We've built new keyboard shortcuts for the issue view! Open an issue, then select 'd' (to update the issue's status), 'q' (to log work), 's' (to share the issue), or the left/right/up/down arrow keys (to scroll around the open issue).

View the whole list of shortcuts any time via Jira's help icon, or by selecting 'shift' + '/'.

Issue view: Maximum number of displayed child issues increased to 500

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We heard feedback that some of you needed to display more than 100 child issues on an issue. That's why we're increasing the maximum number of child issues you can see from an issue to 500. You can still have more than 500 child issues, but you'll have to view them in search.

Jira Software

Updated navigation for project settings in Jira Software and Jira Work Management

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve reordered items in your project’s left-side navigation to prioritize settings that impact the entire project. Project-level settings have been moved closer to the top, so they’re easier to find. Board and issue-level settings now sit below them. This change is being rolled out to:

  • Jira Software, both company and team-managed projects
  • Jira Work Management, team-managed projects only

From your project's left-side panel, select Project settings to view the updated navigation.

Issue view: New way to create linked issues

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

On top of creating linked issues using the quick-add button, you can now also add to your existing list of linked issues while viewing them. This means that if you have a long list of linked issues, you no longer need to scroll up and down to add and view them. To try it out, go on an issue's Linked issues section, and select + Create linked issue.

Jira Roadmap - View your releases on your timeline

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

Plan your team's work against releases from your roadmap view. Releases associated with your board now show at the top of your timeline.

Learn more about how releases show on your project roadmap in Jira Software.

Company-managed projects: Limit sprint selection to relevant sprints

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

When assigning an issue to a sprint, you can now limit the sprint selection in the sprint dropdown menu on the issue create screen and issue detail screen, so it will only display sprints from the selected project (rather than all sprints from your entire Jira site). Open the sprint dropdown menu in an issue's sprint field, and select Only show sprints in this project.

Move data between sites with cloud-to-cloud migration

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We're introducing cloud-to-cloud migration to make it easier for you to move users and projects from one cloud site to another. Cloud-to-cloud migration can help you combine data between two or more cloud sites, split a cloud site into multiple cloud sites, duplicate a cloud site, or move specific projects from one cloud site to another.

Org and site admins can access this feature by logging in to the cloud site you want to move your users and projects from, then going to Settings > System > Migrate cloud site.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

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Creating projects in Jira is now simpler with our new template library. Browse templates across the Jira products you own, with additional information to assist you in finding the template that best fits the way your team works.

Additionally, we’ve renamed our project types (next-gen and classic) to make them clearer and more descriptive:

  • Next-gen projects are now named team-managed projects. The functionality itself remains the same and continue to be ideal for independent teams who want to control their own working processes and practices in a self-contained space.
  • Classic projects are now named company-managed projects. Setup and maintained by Jira admins, company-managed projects remain the best choice for teams who want to work with other teams across many projects in a standard way, such as sharing a workflow.

Team-managed projects: Set up new statuses without leaving the workflow editor

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If you add a new status in the workflow editor, you can now assign it to a board column straight away. You can choose to keep your new status hidden, or drag and drop it to a column so it’s visible on your board and backlog.

Learn how to manage statuses in your workflow

Team-managed projects: Subtasks now included when searching with JQL sprint clause

We’ve fixed a bug where search results using the JQL sprint clause didn’t include subtasks. Now, any subtasks that belong to the queried sprint are included in the search results.

Create commits from the Jira issue development panel

If you've connected a source code management tool to your Jira Software Cloud project, you can now create commits via the Jira issue view. The development panel will show a link to create a commit by either copying the issue key or copying a git commit command including the issue key. Once you add a commit message and push your changes, your commit will be linked to the Jira issue - giving everyone on the team greater visibility over how work is tracking.

Learn more about referencing issues in your development work.

Create pull requests from the Jira issue development panel

If you've connected a source code management tool to your Jira Software Cloud project, you can now create pull requests via the development panel on the Jira issue view.

Whenever an issue has a branch linked to it, the development panel will show a link to create a pull request. If multiple branches are linked to the issue, you can select which branch you want to use when you create the pull request. Once you submit your pull request, it will be linked to the Jira issue - giving everyone on the team greater visibility over how work is tracking.

Learn more about referencing issues in your development work.

Team-managed projects: View development information on the board

If you've connected a source code management tool to your Jira project and your team is using issue keys in pull requests, commit messages, and branch names, you'll see development information on your Jira board. Icons are displayed on issue cards to indicate when there is a pull request, commit, or branch linked to an issue. You can now hover over an icon to view more details about a pull request, commit, or branch, and click through to view the development activity in your connected tool.

Learn more about referencing issues in your development work.

Company-managed projects: View development information on the board

If you've connected a source code management tool to your Jira project and your team is using issue keys in pull requests, commit messages, and branch names, you'll now see development information on your Jira board. Icons are displayed on issue cards to indicate when there is a pull request, commit, or branch linked to an issue. Hover over an icon to view more details about a pull request, commit, or branch, and click through to view the development activity in your connected tool.

Learn more about referencing issues in your development work.

Jira Roadmaps - Increase issue limit from 3k to 5k issues

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Bask in the glory of longer, more detailed project plans. Your project roadmap can now show 5,000 issues instead of the paltry 3,000 issues it could before.

much planning. very issues. wow.

Company-managed projects: View deployment information on the board

If you've connected a CI/CD tool to your company-managed project and your team is using issue keys in pull requests, commit messages, and branch names, you'll now see deployment information on your Jira board. Icons are displayed on issue cards to indicate when there is a deployment linked to an issue. Hover over the icon to view more details about the deployment, including the environment name and the time of deployment.

Learn more about integrating deployments with Jira.

Bitbucket Cloud diffstat details are no longer shown in Jira Software projects

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If you've integrated Bitbucket Cloud with your Jira Software project, diffstat details will no longer be available in the Commits tab in the Development dialog. Your commits will still be displayed, but the associated file information won’t be shown in Jira. You’ll need to select the commit ID or follow the "View" link in the File column to see the commit file details in Bitbucket.

Jira Service Management

Jira Service Desk is now Jira Service Management! We’re in the process of rolling out some exciting new features for all users. Learn more about these new features.

View the number of stakeholders from the issue view

NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve slightly updated how you view and add stakeholders to your incidents. Now you can view the number of stakeholders directly from the incident's issue view. Select Stakeholders to view and add more people. Learn how to add and manage stakeholders.

Introducing a new way to identify risks for change requests

NEW THIS WEEK

You can now scan for potential risks before approving changes using the new risk insights panel on the issue view of your change requests.

After you run a scan, you’ll see:

  • a risk summary
  • recent and scheduled changes to the service
  • recent and ongoing incidents on the affected service

Make sure you've added a planned start date, planned end date, and at least one affected service to the change request before scanning. Learn more about risk insights in change management.

Exclude specific users from approving issues

NEW THIS WEEK

When setting up approvals, you can now exclude users in the Reporter or Assignee fields from being able to approve issues.

Learn how to add an approval step to a workflow.

Out-of-the-box knowledge base now available in your service project

NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve brought Confluence’s rich editing experience to Jira Service Management to help you level up your knowledge base management. Your team can now create and edit knowledge base articles without leaving your service project.

Learn how to set up your native knowledge base in Jira Service Management.

Once you’ve set up your knowledge base, select the Create article button and start creating content directly in the editor that opens up within your service project. Your agents can also create new knowledge base articles from the issue view.

Get to your objects quicker with Insight in Jira Service Management

NEW THIS WEEK

No more scrabbling around trying to track down that hard-to-find object - our new overview page for Insight gives you a bunch of new ways to access your favorite, recently visited objects and object schemas.

Even better, there’s a cross-schema search bar front and center to save you time! Learn more about searching for Insight objects.

New approvals configuration experience

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve updated the way you configure your approval steps in Jira Service Management to make the process easier.

Learn how to add an approval step to a workflow.

Allow customers to download attachments directly from email notifications

NEW THIS WEEK

Project admins can choose how customers access attachments from email notifications for security purposes: whether customers need portal authentications to download attachments from emails. Learn more about login-less attachments

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

ROLLING OUT

Creating projects in Jira is now simpler with our new template library. Browse templates across the Jira products you own, with additional information to assist you in finding the template that best fits the way your team works.

Additionally, we’ve renamed our project types (next-gen and classic) to make them clearer and more descriptive:

  • Next-gen projects are now named team-managed projects. The functionality itself remains the same and continue to be ideal for independent teams who want to control their own working processes and practices in a self-contained space.
  • Classic projects are now named company-managed projects. Setup and maintained by Jira admins, company-managed projects remain the best choice for teams who want to work with other teams across many projects in a standard way, such as sharing a workflow.

Improved view of knowledge base articles in the portal

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Your customers can now view your knowledge base articles in the portal on a wider canvas. The increased width will not just improve the readability of your articles, but will also help images and tables in them to render better.

Suggested knowledge base articles on the portal will now show snippets

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The suggested knowledge base articles that your customers see on the portal will now include the most relevant snippets from the articles, determined by AI, to help find the information they need, faster.

Automatically display a default object in an Insight field

In Jira Service Management, we've added the ability to automatically display a default object when an Insight field appears in a customer portal. You can toggle this feature on or off in the Edit Insight objects field configuration screen. Learn more about the Insight object field.

To configure default object display:

  1. Select Settings > Issues > Custom fields > (your Insight object custom field)
  2. Select Options (...) > Contexts and default value > Edit Insight objects field configuration
  3. Toggle the feature on or off by selecting Display a default object when this field appears in a customer portal

Simplified object schema configuration and streamlined importing

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Configuring an object schema is now streamlined and simplified. When configuring an object schema, you can create new reference types and statuses by selecting Create a reference or Create a status.

We’ve also simplified how imports are created. To create a new import, select Create import, select your import type, and then select Create. Object types and attributes will be automatically created for you.

On the other hand, if you’d like to create object types and attributes manually, you can turn off Automatically create object types and attributes and map your object types and attributes yourself.

Finally, Process Results has been moved into the Imports tab, where you can see the history of your completed imports by selecting View history.

Learn more about importing objects into Jira Service Management.

Comprehensive customer management with newly improved customer access settings

We're making improvements in customer management an extremely important aspect of Jira Service Management. The site-level customer access page has been updated to allow access for customers from specific domains. In addition, site admins can enable the settings so that no new accounts can be created if your help center only allows access for existing customers. Learn more about configuring customer access settings

To configure the customer access settings:

  1. From the top right of your screen, select Settings > Products.
  2. Under Jira Service Management, select Customer access.

Forms: Get the information you need, when you need it

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Forms use conditional logic to dynamically show or hide fields, and can include headings, tables, and rich formatting. Use forms in your portal to gather information when a request is raised, or 
add forms to existing issues to gather new information as it’s needed.

We're rolling out forms slowly, so keep an eye out under Project settings (or Service project settings in team-managed projects) for Forms in the navigation on the left.

Learn more about forms in Jira Service Management.

Introducing reusable SLA calendars in Jira Service Management

In Jira Service Management, SLA calendars are used to ensure your goals are tracked based on the times and days your agents respond to requests. You can now save time by copying an SLA calendar from your current service project or one from another service project on your site. Learn more about setting up SLA calendars.

Performance and scale improvements for loading queues

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For queues with more than 1000 issues (previously 10000 issues), the issue count badge will show 999+  in the project sidebar. The exact issue count will be visible in the queue view when the queue is actively selected. This brings improvement to issue count refresh performance for all queues in the project sidebar.

Configure the sender name for email notifications in Jira Service Management

Project admins can configure how the sender names (the email 'from' names) are displayed in email notifications generated from a Jira Service Management project. Previously, emails can appear to be sent from different users or the name of the portal, depending on how the notifications have been generated. Now you have the option to allow the sender name to be the portal name all the time.

For company-managed projects:

  1. From your service project, go to Project settings > Customer notifications.
  2. Find the Sender name section and select an option for your service project.

For team-managed projects:

  1. From your service project, go to Project settings > Notifications > Customer notifications.
  2. Find the Sender name section and select an option for your service project.

Import data from URL using Jira Service Management Cloud

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No more downloading and re-uploading data to get it into Insight in Jira Service Management!

If you store your CSV or JSON data online, you can now import directly from a URL into Insight, and refresh it with the click of a button.

To import data from a URL into Insight in Jira Service Management:

  1. Select your object schema
  2. Select Configure > Import > Create import
  3. Choose either JSON Import or CSV Import as the import type
  4. Select Import data from a web address

Introducing compliance settings to send safe customer notifications from Jira Service Management

Committed to protecting data managed in your service projects, we've added compliance settings in Jira Service Management to help you meet your organization’s compliance needs. After you enabled the settings, the data including ‘Issue summary’, ‘Issue description’, ‘Comment’, and 'Attachment” will be hidden from the corresponding notification emails that your customers will receive. Your customers will need to log in to the portal to view the entire information available on the request. Learn more about compliance settings

You must be a site admin to manage the compliance settings. To access the compliance settings:

  1. Go to Settings > Products.
  2. From the sidebar under Jira Service Management, select Compliance settings.

Configure SLA format display in Jira Service Management

SLAs are displayed in queues and the issue view of a request, allowing you to track the status of an SLA, for example, time to resolution. You can now configure how tooltips for the SLA items are displayed. The 'due date centric' format will show relative time and date, for example, today, yesterday, or the exact date for completed or breached SLAs. The 'time-centric' format will show hours left on the clock, for example, 8h 30m.

To set a display option for an SLA:

  1. From your service project, go to Project settings > SLAs
  2. Select More action (...) and Edit from the dropdown.
  3. Under SLA format display, select an option.
  4. Select Save.

Jira Work Management

Updated navigation for project settings in Jira Software and Jira Work Management

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve reordered items in your project’s left-side navigation to prioritize settings that impact the entire project. Project-level settings have been moved closer to the top, so they’re easier to find. Board and issue-level settings now sit below them. This change is being rolled out to:

  • Jira Software, both company and team-managed projects
  • Jira Work Management, team-managed projects only

From your project's left-side panel, select Project settings to view the updated navigation.

The new and improved board view

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Check out the new and improved board view in Jira Work Management! Jira Work Management boards are designed to give you an easy and clear way to visualize work. You get a snapshot of project progress, including what work is yet to be started, what's in progress, and what is completed. Easily drag your issue cards throughout the workflow to columns that reflect the relevant status.

Collaborative mode is here!

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Add more presence to your business project with collaborative mode. Collaborate in real-time with your teammates to see edits live as you're working. You'll no longer have to investigate who edited what or keep refreshing the page to see updates.

Hierarchy of items in the list view

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We’ve updated the list view to always show the hierarchy of your work, even when you adjust how you'd like to view your list. When you sort, filter, or group the list, child items will stay with their parent items. Plus, the type icons will be nested below each other, so you can clearly see how the items relate to each other.

For example, if you group the list by assignee you’ll see each item listed under the person it’s assigned to. Any subtasks will be nested below their parent item, even if they’re assigned to a different person.

These changes allow you to easily keep track of the hierarchy and relationship between pieces of work, no matter how you organize your list view.

Confluence

Create Confluence pages with Jira automation

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You can now create Confluence pages using Jira automation, unlocking a lot of cool new possibilities for your automation rules. For example, when a sprint ends, you could automatically have a page created for your retro notes. Learn more about using Jira automation with Confluence

To give this a try:

  1. Navigate to your Jira project and select Project settings > Automation.
  2. Select Create rule.
  3. Choose a trigger for your rule, and then select the Create Confluence page action.

You'll also need to set up a connection between Confluence and your Jira project. Learn more about connections in automation.

Automatically get a personal space

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A personal space in Confluence is a place of your own to jot down new ideas, introduce yourself to your team, keep track of tasks, store important items or files, polish content before sharing with others, and more.

You can choose to leave the space open for others to visit and collaborate, or you can restrict the pages so that no one else can see them.

If you don't already have a personal space, one will be created for you after you've logged in and viewed a page. There are three ways to get to your personal space:

  • Select Spaces in the global navigation bar. Your personal space is automatically starred for easy access.
  • Select your profile icon at the top right of the global navigation bar and select Personal Space.
  • Select Home in the global navigation bar. All starred spaces are shown on the right.

Learn more about personal spaces

Better interactions for space shortcuts

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Space shortcuts are curated links always visible in a space’s side navigation. They make it easy to find important and frequently accessed content.

In this improved experience, new and existing shortcuts will show the icon identifying the kind of content they lead to. We also made it easy to organize shortcuts with drag and drop to reorder and the quick remove option.

Shortcuts live on the space sidebar. Only space admins can edit shortcuts. Learn more about customizing your space

Import files from Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint

NEW THIS WEEK

Bring into Confluence existing content from different Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint sites. Once you gather up all the information scattered in various places, Confluence can be the one place your team goes to as their source of truth.

To import OneDrive and SharePoint files:

1. Create a Confluence page
2. Select the Import tab from the panel on the right
3. Select OneDrive and choose the file to import

Find your way with the new Home

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Quickly get back to your work, catch up on relevant activity, and discover what’s happening with the new Home. Select Home in the global navigation bar.

Learn more about the updates to Home

Invite guests for external collaboration (early access)

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External collaboration is a Confluence feature that lets your team collaborate with people that are “external” in some way, such as a client or a contractor. It’s a secure way to open your Confluence instance to anyone you need to work with.

And the way you do that is you invite them as guests.

Guests have limited access to your instance. Unlike regular users who have a broad level of access by default, guests only have access to the spaces to which they have been specifically assigned access.

Guests also have limited access to user information for your regular “internal” users.

Note: External collaboration is in the process of rolling out as part of an early access program for customers on the premium plan.

Learn more about external collaboration.

Recommending pages to archive

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We’ve added a notification email that’ll recommend archiving pages excluded by a bulk archiving action.

With the ability to archive a page and all of its nested pages (a whole branch of the page tree), sometimes not all pages in the branch can be included. This happens when the archiver either doesn’t have permission to view a nested page or doesn’t have permission to archive a nested page, which results in these pages being left behind in the page tree.

If you created any of these “left behind” pages, we’ll let you know in the email and give you a quick way to archive them!

See when page or blog post changes were last saved as you edit

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As you are editing your pages and blogs in Confluence, you'll get real-time updates at the top right of the toolbar that let you know when the content was saved. Confluence is always saving the work you do, so that you don't have to publish the page to make sure your work is safe.

If there is more than one person editing at the same time, you'll see when the content was saved last whether you or a collaborator made the changes that were saved.

Turn your table data into charts

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Being able to visualize the data in a table is a powerful way to quickly summarize and communicate complicated information. The chart types available are bar, line, and pie.

After you’ve created a table, you can insert a chart based on the table data. Once the chart has been created, it’s connected to the table, so if that table data changes, the chart will change too.

To create a chart from a table:

  1. Select a table and select the Insert chart icon.
  2. Select the chart and choose Chart options to change the chart type, style, and more.

Be more expressive with panels

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In addition to the five preset panel options, you can customize panels by choosing one of the 20 background colors available.

Panels can have emojis, or you can remove the emoji to meet the needs of your content. The emojis available to you are the same set that you already use in Confluence; this includes custom emojis you and your teammates added.

1. Add a panel to a page by typing /custom panel or by selecting Custom panel from the insert menu.

2. Use the floating toolbar to choose a background color and pick an emoji if you want one.

Add a status to your page

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By giving your content a status, you can help set expectations for viewers and collaborators when they come to a page. There are a few basic statuses that are available by default and content creators/editors can also add custom statuses that make sense for their team or project.

The admin of the space has the ultimate control over the statuses in their space. The space admin can turn off statuses completely, prevent people in the space from adding new statuses, and suggest certain statuses for creators and editors.

If a space admin allows statuses in your space, you can select them at the top of the page when editing. Adding or changing a status is not available to viewers of a page.

Paste urls as plain text in the editor

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You can now use Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + v when pasting content to stop links from becoming Smart Links when using the editor.

Use this command to paste copy or links to keep urls in their original format. You can also use Cmd/Ctrl + z to change a link back to its original url if it has already converted to a Smart Link.

Easily create pages and blog posts in a new tab from any create button

Rather than navigating away from where you are to create a new page or blog post, you can use shortcut combinations to open a new browser tab.

You can create in various places:

  • global Create in the product navigation
  • contextual create for the Blog item in the space sidebar
  • contextual create for the Pages item in the space sidebar
  • contextual create for a page at any level in the page tree in the space sidebar

To create the content in a new tab:

  • Press and hold the Ctrl key (Windows) or the command key (Mac), and select a create button
  • Right-click on a create button, and select Open in new tab

Sort resolved comments by recency

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You can now sort resolved inline comments by newest and oldest order. By default comments will be sorted newest first.

Find content faster with breadcrumbs in Confluence advanced search

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Confluence Cloud’s advanced search now includes breadcrumbs with your results. Breadcrumbs provide contextual insight into a page’s location and hierarchy, taking the mystery out of searching.

  1. Place focus in the search bar. 
  2. Enter your search terms.
  3. Select Advanced search or press the Enter/Return key.

You can now see breadcrumbs in advanced search results!

Save page templates full-width

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A full-width option gives you more flexibility when you’re formatting templates. You can make a template full-width by clicking the width toggle while in the template editor. Learn more about how to create a template.

Bitbucket

Improving performance on complex diffs

We're making changes to pull request diff functionality that will improve diff performance, particularly on complex diffs. We're changing our diff algorithm from what we call a "3-way diff to a "2-way three-dot diff", which will show the difference between the tip of a source branch and the commit from which it branched off the destination. Starting June 6, 2022, this new diff will be progressively rolled out on the Pull request and Branch pages. For more detailed information about this release, refer to the Bitbucket blog.

Compass

CheckOps is now limited to once a week

NEW THIS WEEK

CheckOps is intended to be a weekly opportunity to assess your operational health with your team. Now teams can complete CheckOps only once per week to reflect this weekly ritual cadence.

Learn more about what CheckOps is and how it helps your team

Announcement notification emails from Compass

NEW THIS WEEK

Compass now sends out notification emails when there's a new announcement from a component. These notification emails go out to owner team members of all dependent components.

Announcement notification emails ensure you don't miss out on important communication impacting your components. Announcement creators can be confident that people get the announcements they send.

When you get a notification email, follow the link in your email to go to the announcement in Compass and acknowledge it. Then, take the necessary actions for your component.

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