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A picture is worth a thousand words: diagram add-ons for Confluence

Memos, post-its, endless meetings: these are a few of the ways you can slow down team productivity. You’re often much better off communicating ideas quickly and simply with diagrams. There are several great Confluence add-ons that help you easily create beautiful diagrams, including Confluence Diagramming by Creately, Gliffy, and Graphviz — that are intuitive, fast, and smart. They take care of creating and embedding simple, easy-to-use diagrams, so you can focus on what matters to you.

Article in Developers
Multiexcerpt plugin for Confluence: when once is not enough

Featured add-on: Multiexcerpt Plugin – Select multiple excerpts across a page or across different spaces and recombine them to aggregate your content the way you want. You want to display content from one page onto another page? Confluence makes that easy. But what if you’re a super-user and want to pull together excerpts from multiple pages or […]

Article in Jira Service Management
Enterprise Mail Handler for Jira Cloud brings non-Jira users into the conversation

Featured add-on: Enterprise Mail Handler for Jira (JEMH) – JEMH Email Handler provides the enterprise features you need. Jira has become the linchpin of your team, taking care of administrative and tracking tasks so that you can concentrate on what you do best. If only everybody you interact with used Jira, your world would be […]

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Last chance for AtlasCamp in Prague!

Once a year developers from all over the world get together for Atlassian’s developer conference: AtlasCamp. Learn how to customize and integrate Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Hipchat, Bamboo, and Stash, helping your team work even faster. And if you want to take your developer skills to the next level with Git, CI, and Docker, you should be at AtlasCamp.

Article in Developers
Tempo Books: new professional services automation add­-on for Jira

This April, Tempo released Tempo Books, a modern and flexible professional services solution on top of Jira. Tempo Books for Jira is built on years of experience and customer feedback. As a result, our add-on is designed to address the unique requirements of professionals using Jira and Jira Agile for their sold services and client projects.

Article in Developers
Automated Work Log for Jira: keeping time so you don’t have to

You’ve been working through an issue all morning and you suddenly realize you forgot to log the time you started. Oops. If you’re like a lot of people who can’t even remember what they had for breakfast, keeping track of a precise start time can feel hopeless. Automated Work Log for Jira, from Gebsun Support, may not spark your memory, but it could save your bacon next time.

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Guest blog: Bulk Clone Professional – Advanced cloning & moving of issues in Jira

This is a guest blog post from Lars Broden of LB Consulting Group the maker of Bulk Clone Professional. Jira is a tool that enables development teams to plan and build amazing projects. When I began to use Jira in my everyday work, one of the features I used frequently was the cloning function. I quickly realized I would be able to save a lot of time if I had the ability to clone multiple issues in one go.

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No more grim expressions with this Confluence add-on

Of all the difficult math problems you’ll encounter, one never seems to get easier with time. How can this be formatted on a page? Luckily there’s an add-on that lets you clear up the clutter and create elegant parades of mathematical notation. Beautiful Math doesn’t make balancing equations any easier, but it will let you integrate them into your page with the polish and clarity you desire. Beautiful Math gives you the ability to incorporate mathematical expressions into your Confluence pages with the same elegance, flavor, and quality people have come to expect from scientific papers, textbooks, and so forth.

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Because nobody wants to be ‘That Guy’

You love Confluence because it gives your team a shared space to collaborate, access the collective knowledge of a talented group, and encourage the type of open discussion that leads to breakthroughs and new ideas. Confluence presents you with the ability to discover exciting solutions and inspired answers. The one thing you don’t need is clutter. And the one thing you never want to be is ‘That Guy’ who is the cause of clutter.

Article in Developers
Five ways to make your life easier using Atlassian add-ons

The devil’s in the details, they say. And those little details can send you up a wall if they’re not working just right. Your real work is too important to let stuff like this get to you. The Atlassian Marketplace has a vast array of useful — and no-cost — add-ons to take care of the everyday hassles, so you can get back to work.

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Test management add-on Zephyr now available for Jira Cloud

Zephyr has announced the release of their next generation add-on designed to help customers accelerate agile testing inside Jira Cloud. The release of Zephyr for Jira Cloud helps project teams extend their Jira Cloud software to include testing into their workflows, and become more agile and collaborative. Since the launch of Jira Cloud, customers have been asking Atlassian for a way to customize their Cloud instances with add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace.

Article in Developers
Hipchat add-ons to brighten your day

Add-ons don’t have to be all about ease and efficiency. Some of them aim to satisfy more intangible wants, such as a yen for spontaneity and wit. It so happens that the three add-ons for Hipchat we’d like to highlight today are all about bringing creative expression into the chat room. Take a minute to explore these great—free—add-ons, and keep them on hand for any time you want to drop a dollop of levity into the conversation.

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Find people easier than ever in Confluence

The latest release of RefinedWiki Original Theme makes it even simpler to see who’s working on what and who’s responsible for the different content in Confluence – it’s quicker and easier to discover the right person to speak to within your organization.