Confluence Updates

Space Admins: Better filters for Content Manager

The Content manager now has ten new filters and five new table columns that provide additional options for space admins to better manage their space's content.

To get started, go to Space settings, then select Content manager. Or, select Content manager from the space sidebar.

New Filter Options:

Open

New Column Options:

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Create a set of visually appealing cards that update automatically

The new Cards macro now has the option to automatically create dynamic cards that update based on filters.

Deliver the latest news to your team using filters that deliver a customized set of automatically populated cards showing the latest links, text, and images. You can select a label, filter by owners and contributors, choose content in specific spaces or folders, and more.

Dynamic cards are available as an option in the Cards [New] macro in pages and blogposts.

Type / and select Cards [New] from the list of macros.

From the configuration panel on the right side, select Dynamic and then Build dynamic cards.

Select one or more filters from the following options:

• Recent updates

• Label

• Space

• Owner or contributor

• Verified content

• Parent item

Editor: Nested drag and drop

We are introducing an enhancement to the drag and drop feature in the Confluence full-page editor, allowing you to nest content within certain elements. This update aims to reduce the reliance on cut and paste actions to improve the efficiency of your content creation.

• Single-click nesting: Drag and drop to nest content such as tables, code blocks, expands, panels, and layouts.

• Improved content management: The new feature supports nesting of paragraphs containing inline elements, making content organization more intuitive.

• Enhanced table interactions: Nest within tables, which represents the highest proportion of nesting scenarios, is now more seamless.

Create Jira issues from Confluence using Atlassian Intelligence

We’ve made it easier to create Jira issues from Confluence pages. You can now use Atlassian Intelligence to do it. Just select the relevant text on the page to create a Jira issue from and Atlassian Intelligence will use both the selected text and the surrounding content to generate a helpful Jira issue summary and description.

After highlighting the text on a published page a header will appear directly above the highlighted text allowing you to select ‘+ Jira Issue’. AI will then create the new issue in the create Jira issue pane on the left-hand side of the page.

Creating Jira issues from Confluence is easier than ever with Atlassian Intelligence

Use Atlassian Intelligence (AI) to automatically generate issue summaries and descriptions when you create multiple Jira issues from a Confluence page.

This feature is only available to customers on the Premium and Enterprise plan.

To use Atlassian Intelligence to create Jira issues from Confluence:

1. Select the AI button on the bottom right of the page, then select + Create Jira issues. Confluence will generate a list of issues for you in the right side panel.

2. Hover over an issue and select the pencil icon to review the summary and description for accuracy, make any necessary changes, and add additional information as needed.

3. Select Create to save your changes and create the issue in Jira or Cancel to discard changes.

4. To remove an issue from the list, hover over the issue and select the X.

Version history now available for whiteboards

You can now view and restore previous versions of your whiteboards, giving you greater flexibility and control over your whiteboard content.

To view a whiteboard’s history, open the whiteboard’s ••• menu in the top right and select History.

From there, you can view previous versions of the whiteboard, and if you want to restore one of them, you can create a new whiteboard using that version’s content. Permissions on the new whiteboard will be the same as the original.

Whiteboards improvements

Improvements to Confluence whiteboards include the ability to:

• attach lines to the same shape and snapping lines to shapes to improve precision and complexity in diagrams

• drag sections from their title, smart sections won’t action on every load

• bulk import all Jira issues from a JQL query

• click on the zoom percentage to easily adjust zoom level

Receive a weekly mention reminder email from Confluence

Users on paid Confluence Cloud instances will receive a weekly email notification summarizing any mentions of them from the previous week that are unaddressed.

By default, everyone will be automatically subscribed to receive this email. Users can also unsubscribe from this email at any time through their email settings.

Jira Updates

Jira Plans - Dependencies on the Program board

As of today, the Program board is leaving Open Beta and becoming a full-fledged feature of Plans! To mark the occasion, we're shipping a highly-requested feature: dependency management on the Program board.

Read our post in the Atlassian Community about this.

With this change, planners can now:

• filter the Program board to show on or off-track dependencies

• show lines between dependencies

• create new dependencies from the board

• View dependencies on issues

• Easily identify which issues have dependencies

• Easily identify which dependencies are off track

• open the Dependencies tab of your plan focusing on this issue

See the full depth of these changes in our documentation.

Share your plan using Smart links

Share your plan using the same Smart links you'd find in the rest of Jira. To see how your favorite sharing method might have changed, take a peek at our documentation.

Using the Share button on your plan, you can now:

The easiest way to share or embed your plan is to select Share from any view of your plan. From here, you can:

• share your plan with other users in Jira

• get a link that you can share with anyone

• embed your plan in Atlassian products. Note: This process replaces the Jira Premium Plan macro in Confluence. Existing uses of the macro are still visible, but can’t be edited.

• create an iFrame element that you can embed in an HTML page (from the timeline only)

• create an image of your plan (from the timeline only)

• export your plan data as a .csv file (from the timeline only)

A lot of these were available before, but this new way of sharing them is easier, faster, and more flexible.

Dependency column label changes to Blocks and Blocked by

We’ve changed the plan dependency view column labels from ‘Incoming dependencies’ and ‘Outgoing dependencies’ to Blocked by and Blocks.

We made this change to promote better visibility of the label, which was always cropped due to its length. The long label was a problem for a lot of customers during recent customer testing and investigation. The new label reflects the default name for issue link types that can be added as dependencies, and it aligns with the dependency behavior in plans, even if another link type name is chosen. We also widened the column length.

Coming Soon: Epic Link and Parent Link changes no longer show in the audit logs

As part of our larger stream of work towards deprecating the Epic Link and Parent Link fields (which you can read about in our documentation as well as our updates in our Community space), changes to these fields no longer generate a change record. On issues, this means that changes made to the Epic Link and the Parent Link no longer show in the issue's History tab.

Changes to these fields are also no longer being communicated via the API, which was announced in the developer community.

JSM Updates

Get more work done in less time with suggestions in Jira Service Management

We’re introducing suggestions on the issue view to help your teams gather context and start working on issues quickly based on a list of actions. Powered by Atlassian Intelligence, this feature is currently available for service requests and incidents only.

To turn on suggestions for a project:

1. From your service project, select Project settings, then Features.

2. Turn on Suggestions.

After the feature is turned on, the suggestions will appear automatically in the issue view for requests and incidents along with other context fields.

Read more about suggestions.

A new way to manage issue security on request types in Jira Service Management

No longer do you need to add the Security level field to request types, now manage restrictions all in one centralized place in company-managed service projects.

Select Restrictions when you are configuring a request type, and from there you’ll be able to control both who has access to raise requests and view issues. This gives you more control and confidence when it comes to knowing how request types are locked down.

Plus for those who use default security levels, you’ll now have better visibility of how it applies to request types in your project.

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