Our Favorite Jira and Confluence Cloud Features
Jira Centralized Dashboards
Easily see the most recent Jira projects accessed and the work assigned.
The various tabs allow users to quickly cycle through recently worked-on, viewed, assigned, and starred issues. Quickly pick up where you left off without JQL filters or going directly into projects!
The “Your Work” dropdown also allows for quick access to any of these categories without directly having to change pages.
Jira Description and Comment Editor
Make your comments and descriptions pop with the new editor in Jira Cloud. Add emojis, code snippets, statuses, and more just like you would on a Confluence page .
Hotkeys allow users to quickly insert formatting. Make code and statuses easy to read! No more misformatted code or confusing comments.
As a bonus gifs (pronounced jifs) work as well!
Confluence Page Tree
Move, organize, copy, edit, and create pages directly from the page tree. Users will no longer have to go to each page individually to execute actions.
Saves resource time and makes the end-user experience more enjoyable.
Confluence Admin Key
Admin Key allows administrative users to gain temporary access to restricted pages. This allows for quick troubleshooting without additional plugins that allow access to other accounts.
Admin Key has an audit log to track who uses it as well. It tracks actions like what page was accessed, whether it was edited, and if any permissions changes occurred.
Confluence Guest Users
Invite your guests for external collaboration! Guests are free of charge and cloud instances can have up to five guests per paid user. Blue Ridge likes to use this feature to share reports and documentation with our clients.
To Invite a Guest:
Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization.
Select Directory > Users.
Select Invite users.
Add the email addresses of the guests you want to invite
Open the product role dropdown for Confluence.
Unselect User.
Select Guest.
Select Invite users.
Guest permissions in a space can be manually tweaked.
Caveats:
Guests can only have access to one space at a time.
Guests must be given space access on an individual basis.