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Better Content Archiving and Analytics offers a complete set of analytics dashboards for all Confluence users, regardless of plan — even on the free tier. This article dives into each dashboard provided by Better Content Archiving and Analytics, helping you unlock valuable insights about your content, spaces, users, and engagement. Whether you're looking to optimize workflows or improve content quality, these dashboards put comprehensive analytics right at your fingertips at a better price compared to Premium!.

Discover how to optimize your Confluence experience with detailed user activity reports! Learn how Better Content Archiving and Analytics can help you track the most active users, understand content interactions, and improve user engagement — all without the need for Enterprise or Premium subscriptions. Read further to find out how to leverage these insights to boost productivity and collaboration in your Confluence Cloud spaces!

Learn how Better Content Archiving offers a comprehensive suite of advanced analytics for Confluence spaces. Explore the key metrics tracked, including space popularity, update frequency, and content growth, offering actionable insights for optimizing Confluence spaces. Leverage analytics to archive inactive content, set up automatic notifications, and enhance content relevance. Unveil the power of Confluence space analytics by Better Content Archiving!

The Confluence analytics guide provides comprehensive insights into how content is interacted with in a Confluence Cloud instance. It covers aspects like analytics accessibility, key metrics, benefits, Confluence page count, page view statistics and ways to track page views. The guide emphasizes the importance of leveraging advanced Confluence page analytics for all teams, irrespective of their subscription tier, to optimize content strategy and improve user engagement. It also highlights the inclusive nature of the analytics and the tools available for detailed insights and strategic planning.

Learn how a leading US animation studio improved their Confluence using Better Content Archiving. The content and training specialist, Staphon Arnold, identified the challenge of cluttered search and outdated documentation and found the solution in Better Content Archiving. The app brought significant value by improving search functionality and enabling the studio to maintain a clutter-free knowledge base. Staphon emphasized the importance of archiving old documentation and encouraged potential users to give Better Content Archiving a try for a seamless user experience.

Atlassian carried out changes in Confluence Cloud's email notification options, phasing out the Daily Update and introducing the Confluence Daily Digest. While the latter reduces email traffic, it has limitations such as lack of customization, fixed schedules, and inclusion only of watched or contributed content. In this article, discover how Better Content Archiving for Confluence enhances the Confluence daily digest in terms of scheduling, layout customization, content inclusivity, and recipient options. This solution goes beyond the flaws of the Daily Digest, ultimately offering a more professional and flexible Confluence email notification experience. Learn how Better Content Archiving empowers you to turn off the Daily Digest email and turn on a superior, customizable summary email that aligns with your preferences and needs.

This article is a comprehensive guide to page ownership in Confluence and Better Content Archiving. While Confluence offers a basic page ownership system, the article highlights the limitations of the default tools and introduces the transformative power of Better Content Archiving. Through a meticulous comparison, it reveals how Better Content Archiving redefines page ownership, allowing for dynamic collaboration and multiple owners for a single page. The app's ability to facilitate bulk ownership changes emerges as a game-changer, ensuring smooth transitions even in complex content hierarchies. Read along and learn how to improve your Confluence page ownership experience.

Navigating the complexities of project and version management in Jira Cloud can be daunting, particularly when tracking version statuses. With Jira lacking a built-in solution for exporting version data, users are seeking efficient methods to craft comprehensive version reports. The answer lies in Better Excel Exporter, leveraging adaptable templates and Groovy scripts for swift report creation. Users can effortlessly download spreadsheets containing essential version details. These encompass project names, keys, statuses, progress, dates, and descriptions. With customization options enhancing the exports' clarity and branding, teams can convey version insights with precision. For a deeper dive into this solution, read the full article.

Keeping page owners informed and ensuring efficient content management are crucial aspects of working with Confluence. Explore the power of Confluence notifications and reminders in this comprehensive tutorial, highlighting how they form the backbone of a robust Confluence content lifecycle strategy. By leveraging the Better Content Archiving app, page owners can effortlessly set up reminders and notifications tailored to their needs. From event-based reminders to review notifications and even custom reminders, every stage of the content workflow can be seamlessly managed. With step-by-step instructions and tips on customization, this article equips Confluence users with the knowledge to optimize their notification system and maximize productivity.

One important feature in Confluence is the page status, which provides a visual indicator of a page's current position in the content lifecycle. The page status can be set manually or updated automatically, and it can be used to track progress, improve collaboration, and drive decisions and actions. In this article, we will explore how the Confluence page status works and how it can help teams manage their content more efficiently. We'll also discuss the limitations of the built-in page status feature in Confluence Cloud and introduce the Better Content Archiving and Analytics for Confluence app, which provides more flexibility and control over page statuses.

The article provides a clear and detailed explanation of what Confluence content lifecycle management is and how it can benefit organizations of different sizes. It also offers practical suggestions for implementing content lifecycle management rules and workflows and making the case for them to management. Get inspiring arguments that help you explain to managers how a well-functioning Confluence is connected to business results. Use the calculations to illustrate the cost of bad quality Confluence search results and build a business case for Confluence content lifecycle management.

Archiving a Confluence space is a basic feature in Confluence but it's often too rudimentary for your goals. If you are building a content lifecycle management strategy, you typically don't archive whole spaces. Read on to learn more about Confluence space archiving and how you can create your Confluence content lifecycle management strategy with Better Content Archiving.

Archiving a Confluence page is a key element of a Confluence content lifecycle management strategy. Read on to understand your options for manual and automatic page archiving in different Confluence deployment types. Don't stop there: continue reading in the topic and learn how you can create your Confluence content lifecycle management strategy with Better Content Archiving and Analytics.

Check and report on the Jira assignee history with a dedicated template from Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud. It works out of the box when you export a Jira issue to PDF. The Jira assignee history report template comes with the app, so you don't have to customize anything. Read on to learn how to export a Time by Assignee report to PDF.

Exporting the Jira Advanced Roadmaps is helpful when you need to share your plans. As a native feature, you can export the plan layout to an image file, but not to PDF. In this artcile, you can learn how to use Better PDF Exporter for Jira to export the issues in Advanced Roadmaps to PDF.

Traceability report is one of the special report types that doesn't come with Jira built-in. Better PDF Exporter's dedicated template was created to cover this use case out of the box. In this tutorial article, you can learn how to generate a traceability report from Jira.

We dive into the topic of automatic generation and emailing of release notes from Jira. In this article, we clarify what release notes are in Jira and how you can use templates to generate yours. We also give you a quick guide on how to use Automation for Jira and Better PDF Automation together to automate the exporting and emailing of release notes after every version release.

Jira issue history export is often required to report on past activities performed on issues. Better Excel and Better PDF Exporter both are capable of exporting Jira issue change history along with many other types of issue data. Read on to learn how to create a Jira issue history report in your desired format.

While collaborating and sharing Jira data within our team or organization is fairly easy, sharing that content externally is not always safe or flat out prohibited by company security policies. Landis+Gyr, a global manufacturer of metering products for the utilities sector, needed to share information from their Jira Cloud instance with customers, without the security risk. Now they use Better PDF Exporter as a simple and professional solution without creating any liabilities.

Exporting Jira issue information to PDF can have many purposes and can create various types of documents. Read on for a collection of different PDF documents organized by use case and report type. Get ideas for Jira PDF reports and learn how to export a single issue, create a Kanban board export, or archive Jira issues to PDF.

Exporting test details from Jira to Excel is often needed for reporting and monitoring purposes. Teams using Xray or Zephyr Squad have various professsional options to export test cases with steps, test plans, test sets and more with Better Excel Exporter for Jira. Learn more about each Excel test export or report option!

A selection of smart values make Jira issue details readily available for Automation for Jira rules. But what about DevOps smart values for Jira Data Center and Server? Read on to learn how you can use software development focused smart values in Jira automation actions.

Jira epic reporting is sometimes called by different names, but means one thing. Clear visbility into the progress of work organized in Jira epics. Get a comprehensive overview of how to track epic progress in Jira and how to export a professional Epic Status Report to Excel.

Learn about simple ways to pull a bug or defect report from Jira. Built-in reporting options and report gadgets are one way to present a Jira bug report. Another approach is to export a bug report from Jira for further analysis and sharing.

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. Change management is a versatile practice that has many stakeholders and even more aspects to track. You can follow the ITIL guidelines or have your own practices, but without reporting, it's hard to evaluate your efforts. In this part of the blog series, we offer an example for a change management workflow and reporting options with Better Excel Exporter.

Jira sprint reports are exported to Excel to present the current sprint progress or for retrospective meetings. Explore the different Jira sprint report types exported to Excel and hear from a team using them in production. SkyTouch Technology explained how they use Jira sprint reports to make data-driven decisions.

CSV exporting is still a sought after feature even if there are a multitude of more professional alternatives for every requirement. Learn what are the best Jira CSV export alternatives based on your needs and which is the one use case when CSV export works.

Microsoft Excel is the de-facto reporting tool for many businesses, including large enterprises. As Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud mature, they give more options to export or otherwise transfer data to Excel. But are those methods sufficient for you? Learn how to export to Excel from Jira with the least effort but maximum quality to achieve your business reporting goals!

In this Jira case study, you can learn about a European government entity that deals with a million new Jira issues created every year. They successfully implemented a Jira archiving system with the help of Life in Codes, an Atlassian Solution Partner from Romania. Their example is more than inspiration: you can easily replicate it at your company!

Exporting Jira dashboards is a feature unique to Better PDF Exporter. You can export and share Jira dashboards with team members or anyone without Jira access. You can even automatically export, attach or send the exported PDF in email with the help of Better PDF Automation. Read on to learn more about how you can export and send Jira dashboards!

This version is a compatibility release for the Bitbucket 8 line. For Bitbucket Data Center, it also contains an important update for compatibility with Bitbucket Mesh. Read what Better Commit Policy for Bitbucket 5.2.0 brings!

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. Jira Service Management is a perfect tool for incident management as it brings a default workflow and ITIL best practices to the table. In this part of the blog series, we offer an example for an incident management workflow and reporting options with Better Excel Exporter.

This version of Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud introduces new configuration options for dashboard exporting. Read the full release announcement to get the full picture of what has improved.

This version of Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud has been released to prepare for an important change made on issue fields like "Epic Link", "Parent Link" and others. Read the full release announcement to understand what changed and how to update your app version and PDF templates.

This version of Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud prepares for an important change made on issue fields like "Epic Link", "Parent Link" and others. Continue to the release announcement to get the full picture on this change.

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. Sending out customer satisfaction (often abbreviated as Jira CSAT) surveys is a great way to gauge the sentiment of your customers and get some direct feedback about the service they received. The results are displayed by tickets and on the ticket queue, but Jira CSAT reporting is more flexible with a dedicated tool like Excel. In this part of the blog series, you can learn how to create your customer satisfaction report with Better Excel Exporter.

This version of Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud introduces a selection of ready-to-use Zephyr Squad reports. Additionally, there are new views to export the Zephyr Squad test step results together with the corresponding test step details.

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. A Jira Service Management approver report can come handy when you want to get a deeper look into approval workflows to find areas to improve. In this part of the blog series, you can learn about the Jira Service Management approver report in Better Excel Exporter.

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. Jira Service Management's SLA reporting informs Service Managers of some fixed angles, but missing real reporting flexibility. In this part of the blog series, you can learn how the built-in SLA report in Better Excel Exporter ups your JSM reporting.

In this new version, we fixed minor inconsistencies in the default Excel templates. Read on to get a quick view of the latest release of Better Excel Exporter!

In this blog series, we introduce the different Jira Service Management reports that Better Excel Exporter for Jira brings built-in. Jira Service Management has default and custom reports, but lacks a classic Service Request Status Report. In this part of the blog series, you can learn how Better Excel Exporter can help generate a Service Request Status Report.

Better PDF Exporter 3.3.0 is officially has been certified as Cloud Fortified by Atlassian. Read the detailed release notes to learn more about what this status means!

This version of Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud introduces ready-to-use Tempo Timesheets reports, and it's also serves as an announcement, that the app has been certified as Cloud Fortified by Atlassian.

Jira Service Management reporting is far from fully satisfying for enterprise service teams looking for deeper insights. Built-in JSM reports in Better Excel Exporter for Jira have been revised to better answer the questions service teams need answers for. Read about the comprehensive collection of Jira Service Management Excel reports that complement the default JSM reports.

This version of Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud introduces two important improvements to create better Excel spreadsheets faster.

Downloading Jira worklogs or exporting Jira Cloud worklogs into professional worklog reports is made straightforward with Better Excel Exporter Cloud. Let Better Excel Exporter's built-in worklog report template and export option carry the heavy workload, so you can shine with useful reports to management and peers.

The biggest telecom company in Slovakia thought they have a Jira portfolio management problem. When they started working with Atlassian Solution Partner MoroSystems, they realized they need more flexible and sharable Jira reports instead. The MoroSystems team created a solution for them, so they can create custom Jira project and portfolio reports for management meetings, and share those automatically via email.

Midori apps and services are not directly impacted by the critical vulnerability reported in Apache Log4j. Read our statement for the result of our internal security research.

Jira Cloud project statistics are essential for admins who are looking to report on different aspects of their Jira Cloud projects. Better Excel Exporter Cloud brings a powerful project report in Excel format, uncovering and organizing hidden insights of Jira Cloud projects.

Not all apps are created equal when it comes to migration to Atlassian Cloud, and it all has to do with complexity. Learn about the simple, secure and lightweight methods of migrating the Better PDF Exporter and Better Excel Exporter apps to Jira Cloud!

Better PDF Exporter 3.1.0 introduces support for Insight in Jira Service Management, also maintaining backward-compatibility with the legacy Insight Asset Management app. Read on to learn more about this new integration, and follow the steps to configure this for the first time or to migrate the from the legacy app to Insight in JSM!

Jira issue comments are not like regular fields that you can query with JQL and display as a column in Issue Navigator. If you want to export Jira issue comments to Excel, you need a tool that works with issue metadata like comments (and change history, worklogs, etc.). Read on and watch a quick tutorial of how Better Excel Exporter can export your issue comments in seconds.

Sharing the Jira Cloud active sprint board in an Excel export is a one-stop solution for communicating sprint status to managers or partners. Learn how Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud can create data-rich reports right from the Jira board view!

🎉 Cue the confetti! Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud has been launched officially on the Atlassian Marketplace! We didn't just deliver yet another Excel exporter app, but aimed to solve the hard(est) problems customers struggle with. Our new Excel exporter app takes Jira Cloud Excel reporting to a new level in terms of features, customizability and quality. Learn more about Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud and what our early users thought!

This version is a compatibility release for the Confluence 7.14 line.

Issues on the Jira backlog and active sprint board are often raw data for the best Jira Software reports. Discover how Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud can help you export from the Jira backlog and board views and create your custom Excel reports with a few clicks.

Jira Cloud for Excel is Atlassian's Excel import add-in for simple Jira Excel reporting needs. It partly relies on Microsoft's infrastructure, which grants connection and compatibility issues for many customers. Here are the most frequently reported issues in 4 categories and how you can try to address those.

Our Better PDF and Excel Exporter apps and their automation counterparts have all received maintenance releases to fix a bug caused by an API breaking change by Atlassian. Read about the details below and grab the new versions!

We are happy to announce that Better Excel Exporter for Jira Cloud is now complete! Read how it compares to the Jira Cloud for Excel add-in and reach out for installation instructions today!

This release fixes a bug reported in Bitbucket 7.14 context.

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.13.

Exporting Jira worklogs to PDF or creating a Jira timesheet report is not a one-fits-all operation. Your document requirements and exporting needs will differ from others. Read along to learn how to put the built-in Jira worklogs, or Tempo Timesheets-managed time tracking data into PDF documents that fit your needs.

Creating shared understanding and open communications are two cornerstone principles of DevOps. Workplace communication is often happening in Slack channels, so connecting your developer environment with Slack is a popular use case. Learn how to set up a Jira automation rule to send Git commit details to your team's Slack channel without lifting a finger.

Software team leads from companies of all sizes are looking for ways to introduce Git commit verification rules and standardize on best practices. What commit verification options are available built-in Bitbucket Data Center and what are the alternatives? Read our quick roundup of professional commit policy apps for Bitbucket Data Center, that offer the best features to complete Bitbucket's basic capabilities.

We are continuing our DevOps automation series with a practical guide for automating TeamCity builds. With the help of Automation for Jira and Better DevOps Automation for Jira, we are looking at automating a TeamCity build configuration. Follow this guide to cut on manual tasks and automate TeamCity from the convenience of the commit message!

Welcome Katie Hill from BigBrassBand, makers of the super popular Git Integration for Jira app as our guest author! Katie shares her thoughts in this guest blog on the importance of why non-technical Jira users should be able to understand the state of a Git repository. Find out how non-tech people can translate software development questions to business terms with the Git Integration for Jira app!

This version fixes an important bug that affects Jira 8.16.0 or newer Data Center deployments.

"How can we tell if work is distributed evenly across our agents?" This was one of the questions Juan and his team asked themselves after they introduced Jira Service Management at BlueSun. Read on to learn how they successfully found a way to analyze agent workload and boost Jira Service Management reporting.

We dive into a sub-section of DevOps automation that's about automating a Jenkins build after a commit has been accepted to the central repository. We are going to take advantage of the Automation for Jira framework and the DevOps triggers by the Better DevOps Automation for Jira app. Learn how to empower your developers to automate a Jenkins build from the convenience of the commit message!

Triggering an automatic Bamboo build after each commit is a typical DevOps use case that many software teams routinely use. But can you make it optional and give more control to developers over running Bamboo builds? Learn how to power up your developers and allow them trigger a Bamboo build with Genius Commands used in the commit message!

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.12.

This new release introduces security improvements to the app. It also brings adjustments to comply with changing Atlassian requirements concerning Connect apps.

In this major version, we optimized the internals of the Excel file generator for faster exports that require less memory even in case of very large exports. This version also comes with a few important bugfixes. Read on to get the latest release news on Better Excel Exporter!

This new release introduces a new trigger, Groovy-based smart values and several important guides and recipes. Read on to get the latest release news on Better DevOps Automation for Jira!

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8.16 line and also introduces support for clickjacking protection.

This version introduces support for Jira Data Center (clustered Jira deployments) and for 3 new default Genius Commands: @label, @affectsversion, @fixversion. Read on to get the latest release news on Better DevOps Automation for Jira!

This version is a maintenance release that fixes an infrequent, but critical bug.

DevOps practices and especially DevOps workflow automation is increasingly important for developer teams. Better DevOps Automation brings new DevOps triggers to Automation for Jira, that enable no-code, low-code, user-friendly, yet advanced DevOps workflows.

This version fixes a major bug in 5.0.0 that would affect the upcoming Better DevOps Automation for Jira app.

This release is an important update for compatibility with the upcoming Better DevOps Automation app. While it doesn't bring visible feature changes, it's still very important to upgrade now.

This new version introduces no visible changes or feature tweaks, but still brings something very important under the hood. It prepares the compatibility for a brand new app from Midori that's coming out soon: Better DevOps Automation for Jira.

This version is a compatibility release for Xray 4.0 and newer versions.

This version is a compatibility release for Xray 4.0 and newer versions.

Connect Jira to external databases and avoid using dirty data in business operations and in Jira reports. Read on to learn how Elements Connect can pull data from an outside system to Jira and how to use those to create Excel reports.

Creating FDA compliant records from Jira can be a complex task, but it is crucial for businesses that need to maintain information for FDA inspections or submissions. The Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, part 11 outlines specific requirements for generating accurate and complete copies of records in both human-readable and electronic form suitable for inspection. To bridge the gap in audit readiness, the Better PDF Exporter for Jira app offers a powerful solution. This app allows users to export Jira issues into well-designed, professional PDF documents that fulfill FDA regulatory requirements. With ready-to-use templates, support for custom fields, rich text formatting, electronic signatures, and attachments, businesses can ensure that their Jira exports meet FDA compliance standards. By leveraging this tool, businesses can streamline their FDA compliance processes and create accurate and comprehensive records from Jira.

From February 2, 2021 you won't be able to purchase new server licenses for Atlassian products. This major change creates both a challenge and an opportunity for all of us app users and app vendors in the Atlassian ecosystem. Read on to learn what this all means for you if you are using a Midori app on a server deployment.

This version implements streamlined dependency handling and also comes with a couple of smaller improvements and bugfixes.

This version implements streamlined dependency handling and also comes with a couple of smaller improvements and bugfixes.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8.13 line. It also contains a bugfix to solve a compatibility issue with ScriptRunner 6.11.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8.13 line. It also contains a bugfix to solve a compatibility issue with ScriptRunner 6.11.

Native project archiving only exists in Jira Software Data Center (from version 7.10), and as a premium feature on Jira Cloud. Regardless of which deployment options you are using, there are still a number of ways to declutter Jira and free up some performance capacity. Read on to get a comprehensive summary of Jira issue and project archiving options.

This release brings a new exporting quota system to life. The new quota enables exporting massive data sets that resulted in timeouts previously. Read on for the details and to learn about the rest of the improvements we delivered for Better PDF Exporter Cloud.

This is a compatibility update to keep Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud in synch with the recent changes made in Zephyr Squad for Jira Cloud.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8.12 line. It also contains three small bugfixes.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8.12 line. It also contains two small bugfixes.

Government agencies rarely share anything about their internal processes, but sometimes you can get lucky. We had the pleasure to learn how the General Services Administration uses Jira and custom reporting in managing the federal government's properties and fleet of vehicles.

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a single bugfix for Tempo Timesheets.

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.7.

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a single bugfix for Tempo Timesheets.

This version introduces the concept of content owners, as our answer to the second most popular feature request. Content owners are one or more manually selected users who are responsible for the content in a single page or in a whole page tree. It means, you can manually assign users to Confluence pages! Read on, it is awesome.

This release introduces the feature that was most requested by the user community: support for dashboard exports! There is no other app for Jira Cloud that comes with this feature. Read all about Better PDF Exporter Cloud 2.0.0!

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.6.

This version comes with a vastly improved classloading approach for Groovy scripts.

This version comes with a vastly improved classloading approach for Groovy scripts, plus some bugfixes and compatibility fixes for Jira 8.8.1.

This release introduces brand new PDF export options and new versions of existing PDF export options, tailored for specific use cases and needs. It also brings a few important improvements around exporting Tempo Timesheets managed data.

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.5.

This release introduces support for the new Tempo Timesheets REST API. It also brings a number of important improvements around exporting Tempo Timesheets-managed data.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with Tempo Timesheets 10.16.0. In this version, Tempo made some modifications to the user interface of Tempo Timesheets, the widely used time tracking app for Jira. We made sure that our mutual users can still find their PDF export options where they used to have them.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with Tempo Timesheets 10.16.0. In this version, Tempo made some modifications to the user interface of Tempo Timesheets, the widely used time tracking app for Jira. We made sure that our mutual users can still find their Excel export options where they used to have them.

This version introduces support for exporting issues directly from the next-gen boards in Jira Software Cloud. It also brings a number of important improvements and bugfixes.

This version introduces a new integration with the Git Integration app, to enable reporting on development information in the context of Jira issues. It also allows exporting the customer satisfaction comments (provided for Jira Service Desk issues) to Excel.

This version introduces a new integration with the Git Integration app, to enable exporting development information in the context of Jira issues. It also allows configuring an upper limit for structure item when exporting Structure hierarchies to PDF.

This version introduces a new integration with Structure, the hyper-popular Jira app to manage complex issue hierarchies. It also comes with a couple of improvements, plus bugfixes related to the Xray to Excel export features.

To comply with the SOC 2 and PCI security frameworks, corporate teams often need to export details of their processes from Jira. In this mini-interview, we asked Raymond Côté (CTO, Auric Systems International) how they use Jira for SOC 2 compliance. More precisely, how they generate Jira reports in PDF format to compile evidence of their SOC 2 and PCI compliance. Discover how you can get your customized SOC or PCI report from Jira before the auditors come knocking.

This version introduces a new integration, this time with Structure, the hyper-popular Jira app to manage complex issue hierarchies. It also comes with a couple of improvements, changes and bugfixes that are important even if you are not using Structure.

What do you do with the accumulating outdated content in Confluence? Are there solutions to intelligently manage the lifecycle of Confluence pages? What should a content review process look like? Computop, a German digital payments provider asked these questions and didn't rest until they found the answers. This is their story of building a user-friendly content lifecycle management workflow in Confluence.

This release introduces new integrations with Xray and Jira Misc Custom Fields.

The PDF/A file format offers many advantages when Jira users are looking to export Jira data with the intention of storing information for a long period of time. Get a glimpse into how an Atlassian Solution Partner, EPOS-CAT delivered a Jira archiving system for their customers based on PDF/A documents.

This release introduces new integrations with Xray and Jira Misc Custom Fields, and also comes with a new feature to export Jira projects to Excel.

The MoroSystems team doesn't let managers go to meetings empty-handed. They built a Jira project status reporting system that consolidates information from different systems, and automatically emails a fresh report to managers every morning. How do they pull data from external systems? How do they present all that information in an automated report? What apps do they use? Read on to learn all that!

This tutorial explains how to create Jira project exports using the Better Excel Exporter app. We will use a customizable template to bring Jira projects to Excel for data migration, searching, filtering and reporting purposes. Let's dive in and export Jira projects to Excel!

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a some bugfixes.

This release is a compatibility release for Jira 8.6.1.

This is a follow-up blog post for "Why aren't Midori apps available for Jira 8.6 yet?" (published 6 Jan 2020). Atlassian has finally released the Jira versions that fix the bug reported in that blog post. Read on to learn how to get the bugfix!

This release is a compatibility release for Jira 8.6.1.

An unfortunate bug introduced by Jira 8.5.2 still disallows releasing Jira 8.6.0 compatible versions of our apps on 6 January. This blog post is to summarize what happened and what is current status. (In nutshell: Atlassian is working on the bugfix!)

This release is simply a compatibility release for Tempo Timesheets 10.10.

This release is simply a compatibility release for Tempo Timesheets 10.10.

This version introduces integration with Insight, the leading asset management app for Jira Cloud. After Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, Tempo Timesheets, Zephyr, Portfolio and ScriptRunner, we make Better PDF Exporter the best option to export information from another popular Jira app!

This version introduces compatibility with the so-called read-only mode in Confluence.

This version introduces integration with ScriptRunner, the most popular scripting app for the Jira Cloud platform. After Tempo, Zephyr Squad and Portfolio, this version enhances another widely used Jira app with customizable PDF exports.

This version introduces integration with Portfolio for Jira Cloud, Atlassian's cloud-based Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution. It also comes with a major performance improvement for the export of Zephyr Squad test step results.

This version introduces integration with Zephyr Squad, the most popular test management app for Jira Cloud. It is already the second release that extends a widely-used Jira Cloud app with powerful PDF exporting capabilities (after 1.1.0, which introduced PDF exports to Tempo Timesheets!).

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a design related improvement and two small bugfixes.

Keeping a traceable and audit-proof source code change history should not be a hassle for any developer team. If you are using GitHub Enterprise and Jira together, you can count on the power of pre-receive hooks by Better Commit Policy for Jira to speed up code reviews. Build a robust commit policy system to guard your GitHub Enterprise repositories!

This version introduces integration with Tempo Timesheets, the popular time tracking app for the Jira Cloud platform. For the long run, we aim to enhance all popular Jira Cloud apps with customizable PDF exports, and this version is the first step to that direction. Additionally, this version comes with a couple of smaller, but important improvements and bugfixes.

Better Commit Policy 4.3.0 brings popular new integrations and features to suggest Jira issues to include in your commit message or share your commit policy among Jira projects. One of the highly requested integrations is between GitLab and Jira. Read how Better Commit Policy for Jira 4.3.0 delivered this!

This version comes with improved guides for Bitbucket Server, Bitbucket Data Center, Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Self-Managed and GitLab.com. Additionally, it introduces several new features: "did you mean?" intelligent issue key suggestions, cloning commit policies and bypassing complete changesets and single commits by commit messages and committers.

This version comes with two less-critical bugfixes with which we didn't want to delay version, 8.4.0, the compatibility release for Confluence 7.0. Now these are tested and released for the public.

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 7.0, adapted to all the changes in that major Confluence release.

This release is simply a compatibility release for Tempo Timesheets 10.7.

This release is simply a compatibility release for Tempo Timesheets 10.7.

This version introduces an extended, more flexible security model to ease managing commit policies in large Jira teams. In nutshell: it allows delegating the task of commit policy management to project administrators. Make sure you read about the permissions if you use more than a couple of commit policies in your repositories.

Improving internal processes in the enterprise with intertwined systems and thousands of people often feels impossible. It wasn't any different at this large Swiss bank, that uses Jira internally to manage processes and projects. They took a stab at improving their work methods and succeeded. Read on to learn how.

This release enables you to automatically accept or reject the commits pushed by external systems (e.g. a build system) to Bitbucket. Make sure you check it out if you use SSH access key based authentication for external systems.

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

This release extends the already existing integration between Better PDF Exporter and ScriptRunner with a new use case: exporting ScriptRunner-managed fields (including built-in and custom script fields) to PDF. It also introduces support for the "Development" field, which allows exporting branch, commit and pull request information to PDF reports. (Plus, there are some small, but important improvements.)

This release extends the already existing integration between Better Excel Exporter and ScriptRunner with a new use case: exporting ScriptRunner-managed fields (including built-in and custom script fields) to Excel. It also introduces support for a popular free Jira app, Color Custom Fields, which allows storing colors and color-coded attributes for issues.

Stephan works as Knowledge Manager at Babbel, the popular language learning app and platform. One of his recent challenges was eliminating outdated content from the Confluence search results, so the system better serves all departments by capturing and sharing the most relevant information. Read our conversation about how they pulled it off.

This release introduces support for 3 widely used Jira apps: Profields, Table Grid Next Generation and Color Custom Fields. Upgrade to this version and create even more value from your prior investments by exporting 3rd party data to custom PDF documents! (Plus, there are some small, but important improvements and bugfixes.)

This release introduces support for Profields, the project administration app for Jira that enables adding custom fields to projects, such as due dates, budgets and supervisors. Upgrading to this version allows you to export your Profields custom fields to Excel spreadsheets.

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

This release introduces "quick actions" which significantly ease controlling the lifecycle of pages. Although it may be only the first iteration of the new user experience, it is biggest change since Content Status Indicator was introduced. Make sure you check it out.

The release of Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud pushed us over the edge to be upgraded from Top Vendor to Gold Top Vendor on the Atlassian Marketplace. There is no additional glitter and fame that comes with it, but read on to learn why this is important on the long run for you as a customer.

The Cloud Security Program is Atlassian's way of making sure the best and most popular apps also live up to the same high security standards as Atlassian. With the release of the first Midori cloud app, we completed and successfully passed the voluntary Atlassian Cloud Security self-assessment. Read and learn what does this mean for your team!

This release introduces support for Portfolio for Jira, Atlassian's Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution. Upgrading to this version allows you to export your portfolio, programs, plans and the issues in those to custom PDF documents.

This release introduces support for Portfolio for Jira, Atlassian's Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution. Upgrading to this version allows you to export your portfolio, programs, plans and the issues in those to custom Excel reports.

The new Better PDF Exporter for Jira Cloud is launched on the Atlassian Marketplace and it brings advanced PDF export and report options. Using Jira Server or Jira Server? Don't worry, these new Jira PDF reports are coming to your instance as well!

This release introduces default archiving configuration and trusted group features. These were very popular feature requests. Also, this version introduces some minor improvements and a bugfix.

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

Matt works for this huge investment and financial services company. Matt and his team don’t have anything to hide, but they like to control exactly what is being reported to auditors when they come knocking. With the right Jira app, he is able to do just that.

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

This version is a maintenance release to fix a UI problem in Bitbucket 6.x.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Jira).

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Jira).

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Jira).

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Jira).

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 8 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Jira).

This version is a compatibility release for the Bitbucket 6 line (the latest major version of Atlassian Bitbucket).

This Norwegian state organization measures and analyzes Confluence content quality changes over time to keep it from becoming a mess. They do it by combining two popular apps in such an easy way, you could copy anytime. Learn the Scandinavian technique of Content Lifecycle Management.

This release is the last stop on our journey to be a dedicated Atlassian app vendor with a portfolio of Data Center approved apps. Read this short blog post to learn how this latest release of Better Commit Policy for Bitbucket lives up to the revised availability requirements of Data Center environments.

At Atlassian Summit 2018 in Barcelona, Atlassian announced a major review on its Data Center program and introduced new criteria for the new class of "Data Center approved apps". Read on to learn how this Better Commit Policy release was tested against the revised availability requirements.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with Tempo Timesheets 9. In version 9, Tempo re-imagined the whole user interface of Tempo Timesheets, the widely used time tracking app for Jira. We made sure that our mutual users can still find their Excel export options where they used to have them.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with Tempo Timesheets 9. In version 9, Tempo re-imagined the whole user interface of Tempo Timesheets, the widely used time tracking app for Jira. We made sure that our mutual users can still find their PDF export options where they used to have them.

There is no secret about it: the right Atlassian Solution Partner can help you make the most complex-sounding business requirements for Jira to Excel reporting come to life and make it look easy. At least, that’s what you, the end-user see when the solution is delivered. But in the background, there is hard work. In this article, Claudio Menetti from GetConnected (a Platinum-level Atlassian Solution Partner in Italy) lets us have a peak behind the curtains. Read the story of how they used Better Excel Exporter to optimize workflows and integrate process management data at a large Italian corporation.

Tracking time during a workday is often seen by team members as a daunting task and many try to escape it whenever they can. Project management practice tells, however, that given the right tools and the right mindset across the team makes time tracking and time management a real source of value.

At Atlassian Summit 2018 in Barcelona, Atlassian announced a major review on its Data Center program and introduced new criteria for the new class of "Data Center approved apps". Read on to learn how this Better PDF Exporter release was tested against the revised availability requirements.

Twitch.tv most probably rings familiar only for the video game fanatics, even after Amazon acquired the company in 2014. Their story is, however, much more than just a video game live streaming site. Running and improving a popular service like this requires a competent and able team of Technical Program Managers, that support the internal business units, maintain business applications and set up the conference room equipment if needed. We spoke to David Brown, Lead Technical Program Manager at Twitch, who told us how they reduced complexity in their Confluence instance, automated content reviews and how they are planning improve the content management experience further for their teams.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with recent Zephyr Squad versions and to fix column configuration problems when exporting saved filters.

This version is a maintenance release to be compatible with recent Zephyr Squad versions and to fix column configuration problems when exporting saved filters.

Using multi-line text in 'To' and 'Email body' fields is now possible

Using multi-line text in 'To' and 'Email body' fields is now possible

This release introduces global configuration options to hide the identity of the last viewer and last updater persons. This was a very popular feature request among users in the European Union region, especially in Germany. Also, this version introduces a slightly changed, more intuitive app name.

This version introduces a slightly changed app name which is more intuitive and is more consistent with our other exporter and automation apps.

This version introduces a slightly changed app name which is more intuitive and is more consistent with our other exporter and automation apps.

This version comes with better support for the Jira Service Desk fields, new support for the Development custom field type and more robust export for "non-officially-supported" custom fields. And, most visibly, the app got a more intuitive name!

This version brings an important improvement for the users using non-English (non-Latin) characters. In nutshell, nearly any glyph (character symbol) in nearly any language spoken in the world now works out of the box! 6.4.0 also comes with support for QR codes and barcodes and with various smaller improvements. Plus, most visibly, the app got a new name!

At Atlassian Summit 2018 in Barcelona, Atlassian announced a major review on its Data Center program and introduced new criteria for the new class of "Data Center approved apps". Read on to learn how this Better Content Archiving release was tested against the revised availability requirements.

Philips is one of the world's most recognizable brands, manufacturing products from home appliances to medical devices. As their products interact with people all the time (often in critical times in hospitals), being transparent and compliant in their software development processes is absolutely imperative. Yakov Yukhnovetsky, DevOps engineer at Philips tells us how they maintain a disciplined code commit practice that helps them stay always compliant and still move fast.

Confluence has proven to be a leader in its category, but if hundreds or thousands use it in an organization, the experience starts to depend on their attitude a lot. If Confluence drives you mad now and again with the growing amount of outdated content, then you are at the right place. Read this blog post about what you can do to keep Confluence free from stale and outdated content.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 7.11 line.

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

This version is a compatibility release for the Jira 7.11 line.

This version is coming with major (100x!) performance improvements around verifying pushes to super-large Bitbucket repositories.

This version is coming with major (100x!) performance improvements around verifying pushes to super-large Git repositories.

This version is a compatibility release for Confluence 6.10.

This version is a maintenance release to fix the visibility of the Export drop-down menu in Jira Software boards and Jira Service queues.

This version is a maintenance release to fix a Subversion hook script defect in Python 3 environments.

This version is a maintenance release to fix the visibility of the Export drop-down menu in Jira Software boards and Jira Service queues.

Jana, a project manager at Carussel had to start her day an hour early every time she had to compile a project status report from Jira. Since they decided to standardize on Jira, and still keep Excel as the #1 reporting tool in the company, they needed a way to harmonize Jira and Excel for business reporting. We sat down with Jana and Ferenc from Carussel to learn why they decided to use Better Excel Exporter for business reports (besides saving time for Jana, obviously).

This release introduces tag verification, branch verification, new configuration options, plus a ton of improvements. The new features are introduced by the compatibility with Better Commit Policy for Jira 3.0.0 (also released today). Make sure you read both announcements.

This release is the most feature-packed one since the first publicy available version. It introduces new conditions to verify branches and tags, new options to refine your policies, plus numerous improvements. An absolute must-have release!

The latest Jira version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

In 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered the grounding of the entire Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. The newly released aircraft was involved in five battery fire related incidents in five days. The report by the National Transportation Safety Board blamed engineers, but also the FAA for failing to require proper tests. It's the type of incident industry participants are trying to avoid by following rigorous rules also in their software development processes. Kalen Brown, Electrical and Computer Engineer at EaglePicher, a leading battery manufacturer shared how they are using Better Commit Policy for staying compliant with industry regulations.

The latest Confluence minor version has been released. We ran our compatibility tests and here is a summary of what you need to know.

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a single, but important bugfix for the action configuration interface.

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a single, but important bugfix for the action configuration interface.

This version is a maintenance release to deliver a bugfixes on the "sum values" field in the pivot templates of certain Excel templates.

This release allows verifying pull requests against commit policies by introducing a new merge check type to Bitbucket. If the pull request violates the policy, bang: merging is disallowed. Consequently, you will get the same level of consistency for commits merged by pull requests as for commits pushed to the repository! Also, the support for project-level hooks and project-level merge checks introduced in this release may significantly reduce administration efforts.

This release allows managing commit policies in multiple(!) Bitbucket-linked Jira instances to give superb flexibility in enterprise environments. Also, it seamlessly integrates with Mohami's popular Power Editor for Bitbucket app, allowing lighting-fast, yet policy-compliant changes via the Bitbucket web interface.

NNG is one of those shiny start-up success stories you can read about on Techcrunch all the time. Only NNG is not a start-up now, but one of the key navigation software companies in the world, providing embedded navigation and entertainment solutions for 7 of the 10 largest auto manufacturers. As they grew fast over the years, so did their Confluence. Tamas Baglyas, Application Tech Lead at NNG, tells how they managed to keep their Confluence content always accurate and help colleagues be responsible for the content they create.

Easy-to-understand commit messages in version control systems are important to maintain a clear project history. Who will remember after six months what a two-word message (e.g.: Fixed bugs) meant? Similarly, a novel about the solution and the shining talents of the developer doesn't help understanding the original intent either. The 50/72 rule is about balancing and sharing the right amount of information in commit messages to build a clean code history. Using it in your team is not wishful thinking: learn how you can take advantage of it in a quick and painless way.

Jira is gaining more and more popularity also as an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system. To realize this, a few powerful apps need to be set up and be connected to Jira, so it really has a chance on the field of Asset Management systems. We are now sharing what you need to have a top-performing Asset Management and reporting system built on Jira.

Code reviews and code commit best practices under Git, Mercurial (and Subversion to some extent) are ever-green and controversial topics in the DevOps community. In this blog post we make the case for a well-thought out code change practice and try to prove that if it's done right and supported with the right apps, then following the best practice is not only easy, but it improves your practices as a developer. Read this blog post and feel the change, regardless which side of the code review are you.

This release brings valuable improvements to the popular Tempo to PDF timesheet and invoice export feature. It also improves the support for saved filters in automation actions via Better PDF Automation for Jira 3.1.0 (released the previous day).

This release improves the support for saved filters in automation actions. Please note that from this version Better PDF Automation for Jira requires Jira 7.0.11 or newer.

This release brings valuable improvements to the popular Tempo Timesheets to Excel export feature. It also introduces a new integration with the Time to SLA app. (Plus, as always, there are improvements here and there.)

The latest Jira minor version was just released. We ran all our products through the compatibility tests. Here is everything you need to know.

Using Confluence can be a daunting task sometimes, especially when hundreds are creating content each day. We all know that Confluence has some industry leading advanteges and features, then how come that sometimes just finding relevant information ("I had it last month right here, where did it go??") seems a heroic act. Take a breath and read our guide on how to bring back the confidence and joy into working with Confluence content.