Ban the smart search notification on JIRA
Also annoyed with the ‘smart search notification’ of JIRA? Get rid of it! Once upon a time, there was Clippy: Remember ‘Clippy’ Microsoft in Office 97 – I know that’s almost 20 years ago, so you might not be born yet. This desktop assistant was created to help out any user handle their daily […]
How to Manage Project Administration Access on Confluence and Jira
Are you wondering who has project admin access on your JIRA or Confluence and you got something else to do than spending your afternoon clicking through all the permission schemes, and ‘Users and Roles’ screens? Here are 2 simple SQL queries which extract the list of users with this type of god power. Extract all […]
Efficiently Monitoring Attachment Size Usage in Confluence
One of our customers called us because the confluence disk was full, and they wanted to stop adding disk space all the time. They needed a way to monitor the way that confluence is using disk space. Looking at the disk statistics – there were more than 200 GB of attachments and growing. So we […]
How to Compare JIRA Workflows
Find out the difference between a draft and an original Jira workflow When multiple people are working on the configuration of JIRA, you might get into problems synchronizing and/or communicating the intended changes. It is not the first time that a customer has asked me to reconfigure a workflow. When accessing the workflow list, I […]
Efficient Git Submodules for Play Application with Sub-Projects: A Step-by-Step Guide
Atlassian announced the hosted cloud solution of their products on Atlassian Camp in 2014. And, of course, the Exalate team stood before the goal to add cloud support to our product. We already have the play rest application for synchronization with Hewlett-Packard Quality Center. In this solution, we have two separate applications. First one is […]
KBC Start it Fund Invested Half a Million Euros to Help Idalko
KBC Start it Fund invested half a million euros to help Idalko become a market leader in issue tracker synchronization. The investment will above all serve to boost sales and marketing activities for their product Exalate. At present, Idalko has many open vacancies – for product development, digital marketing, and business development. For their ICT […]
Testing for Duplicate Summaries when Creating JIRA Issues with ScriptRunner
I once had the request to add a bit of business logic to a project configuration. The customer had a JIRA project which contained parts (a bit like a CMDB) and he wanted to avoid duplicate entries. I decided to write a simple scripted validator (using the Scriptrunner). The code had to take into account that […]
Optimizing Email Communication in JIRA: Remove Mail Prefix from Generated Emails
We are using the ‘JIRA email this issue‘ add-on to send various types of emails to our contacts. One of the drawbacks of using JIRA mail is that every email is prefixed with a fixed string, and it is not possible to empty the prefix when saving the mail server configuration. But Atlassian […]
Effortlessly Embedding HTML Forms in Confluence Pages
Introduction A customer called with the following problem “Hi Idalko I need to create a very simple form which collects some data from the user, do some calculation on it and show the result in the same page. Is this possible in Confluence?” The customer was wondering how to create an HTML form in Confluence. […]
Managing Field Visibility in JIRA: How to Ensure All Fields on Screens are Visible in FieldConfig
Creating a project configuration with over 500 custom fields can be a daunting task in JIRA. To simplify the process and avoid potential errors, a more efficient approach is required for managing field visibility. This short article explores a simple query-based solution that ensures each field on a screen is visible in the corresponding field […]