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 […]

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. […]

Streamlining JIRA Instance: How to Extract Commercial Add-Ons

Introduction Today I had to update a zillion licenses of commercial add-ons in different instances. As being a lazy consultant who likes to use a command line instead of a mouse, I decided to check if I could use the UPM REST API to extract the information. Ingredients for this recipe are a computer capable […]

Simplify Your Workflow with Script-Runner: Show/Hide Fields with Behaviour Functionality

You can’t imagine what Atlassian JIRA allows you to track. To accommodate all potential reporting needs, large companies tend to expand the number of fields on forms. In a number of cases, fields are only relevant under particular conditions.   Making users understand the logic behind these fields and dependencies is in many cases a daunting […]

Introducing skills based remuneration at Idalko

We are currently recruiting people and the standard approach is to recruit ‘Junior development engineer’, ‘Senior software engineer’… The drawback of this approach is that it is easy to mismatch people.  Some people consider themselves a senior, while our standards would rank them at mid-level.  In many cases, levels are associated with salary, and the […]

Optimize your JIRA approval process with ScriptRunner and Groovy scripting.

Introduction Are you considering using JIRA to support an approval process, but you’re not sure how to tackle it?  This page details an implementation we made for one of our customers using a bit of groovy scripting and the unbelievable essential ScriptRunner from Adaptavist. The environment This customer is one of these robust financial organizations […]

Maximizing Efficiency: Querying JIRA for Confluence Links Made Easy

I had a question from one of our table grid editor customers that I wanted to share, as it’s valuable. They have a nice use case where they wanted to list all comments of a confluence page related to an issue, in the issue itself. The table grid editor allows to query of any relational […]