Use Case: Adding Project Role Users as Watchers to an Issue

One of our customers wanted to adapt their issue workflow such that specific users got automatically added as watchers to an issue when it gets created. The following script will iterate over all users who have the role ‘ProjectWatcher’ and automatically be added as a watcher. /* ** Add watchers from project role ‘ProjectWatcher ** […]

Use Case: Updating Host File with IP Addresses of Host-Running Containers

Introduction We are using BIRT extensively for reporting from our Atlassian JIRA.  The BIRT viewer is a tomcat application that will use a design file to turn raw data into documents or pdf files. But now we have this idea to migrate our Atlassian stack to docker, and the migration of BIRT into the container […]

How to Calculate Days between Issue Creation and Resolution Date in JIRA

  Introduction Assume you want to watch how long it takes (on average) to resolve issues. JIRA is providing quite a number of reporting options like the Control chart report and much more. But these are pretty complex things to grasp, and in the end, you just need to know how many days it took […]

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 […]

Idalko and Avisi: The Ultimate Atlassian and monday.com Dream Team

Are you ready for some exciting news? Well, grab your coffee and get ready to rock it because Idalko and Avisi have just announced their merger, and it’s going to be epic! For those of you who don’t know, Idalko and Avisi are two of the most innovative and forward-thinking Atlassian Platinum and monday.com Gold […]

How to implement a Jira Migration (a step-by-step guide)

How to implement a Jira Migration (a step-by-step guide) Keywords: Jira migration, migrate Jira to new server, jira cloud migration, jira to Jira migration The following article contains everything you need to know to complete a safe Jira migration. You will also find a step-by-step guide on how to implement the migration. Your business and […]

Mastering Jira: A Comprehensive Guide to Efficiently Watching and Managing Issues

An important part of using Jira effectively is being able to track issues that are important to you. Fortunately, Jira makes this incredibly simple with its “watching” functionality. By watching an issue you sign up to receive email notifications whenever the issue is updated, allowing you to monitor work as it happens. In this guide […]

The curse of a JIRA Plugin

Atlassian is open and easy to extend The Atlassian Product suite is very successful thanks to the thriving ecosystem. Thousands of Atlassian users contribute to the product suite on a daily base. Part of the success is the Atlassian marketplace with more than 3500 plugins for JIRA, confluence … Whenever you have a specific need, chances […]