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Templating.App – Standard Approach to Creating (Social) Media with Templates in Jira

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If you promote your products through social media, it pays to make sure it looks professional every time and you don’t forget anything. Well, if you use Jira for your issue tracking, there’s an easy way to make you never forget any steps: templates. With templating.app, you can create one template to rule them all, where you just have to enter some variables for every new campaign instead. Read on to find out how.

Ignition Sequence Start, Liftoff with Checklists for Confluence and Jira, the Ultimate Checklist App

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During the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, an error message occured. And when things go wrong in such a high-stakes mission, they can go horribly wrong. Astronauts wouldn’t be able to come back to Earth. But thanks to the fact that the ground crew had checklists to work through when the error flashed up, they knew exactly what to do. And that’s why checklists are so important. They make sure you don’t forget anything when the stakes are high.

Creative Thinking, How to Free up Your Brain’s Idea Generator with Checklists for Atlassian Confluence and Jira

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It’s important to not fill your head with too many ideas and things to worry about, because as a Chinese legend teaches us, you can only generate fresh ideas when the “cup” of your brain is not filled to the brim already. Checklists for Confluence and Jira can help in this regard; they make sure you (and your colleagues) don’t need to memorize procedures, but can just check off items on a checklist that can be used again and again.

The Importance of Clear and Concise Communication in Jira and How Awesome Custom Fields Can Help

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In 2011, Netflix made quite a mistake with a rebranding, which could have been prevented had they communicated properly. Which brings us to our favorite issue tracking system: Jira. This tool uses custom fields, which can be customized with Awesome Custom Fields to make sure no one ever oversees any important information, improving communication.

Practical Workaround for Jira Cloud: Re-empty the Resolution Field

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When a task reaches its final state in Jira Cloud, its Resolution field is given a value and Jira assumes that the task’s lifecycle is over. But what if the task is reopened, perhaps because it was accidentally closed? Unfortunately, the Resolution field is not automatically cleared. A workaround based on Jira Automation from the Atlassian community provides a remedy.

Autopage Goes Cloud – the Easiest Solution for Your Documentation Problems

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Do you also like to write documentation after a user story, a bug or in the course of a new development? No? Then you’re not the only one, because for very few people this is one of their favorite activities. For you and for all the documentation haters in the Atlassian ecosystem, we have good news: the AutoPage app is now available in a cloud version! With AutoPage, you can create Confluence pages with all the info that documentation pages need directly from Jira issues. Learn more about this useful app!

How to Easily Create Checklists in Confluence

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There’s nothing more satisfying than checking things off a to-do list. While it’s true that Confluence has its own built-in to-do list in the form of Action Items, this is very bare-bones. With Checklists for Confluence, you can create and share much more elaborate checklists. You can even load and use them on your phone with a QR code!

Awesome Custom Fields: An Important Jira Feature Has Become More Accessible and Understandable

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Custom fields in Jira are a great thing: They allow individualization beyond the standard and enable adaptation to individual workflows and processes. At the same time, custom fields are quite an unwieldy topic for tech-savvy power users – but they are far too useful not to make more intensive use of the possibilities associated with them. What Jira lacks is true, intuitive management of custom fields. The app “Awesome Custom Fields” has set out to change that.