by Mike Faster Coyote Creek President Yesterday was the final day of Atlassian Summit 2019, and the second day was as good as the first—both in terms of announcements from Atlassian and attendance at our booth. Lots of people posted on social media that visiting our booth was a Summit “must.” Both the magician and the swag were home runs, and by yesterday afternoon we were completely cleaned out of our “magic-themed” t-shirts and playing… read more

by Dave Theodore I’m here at Atlassian Summit 2019, which is bigger and better than ever. The Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas is a great venue—much more spacious than where the event has been held in San Jose in the past—and the mood is upbeat. As is always the case at Summit, Atlassian used yesterday’s keynote to let us know what’s coming down the pike. Here’s a summary of what’s “coming soon”… New… read more

By: David Sokolowski Solutions Architect Administrator Considerations Often a customer will ask for a field to be added to a screen, when the field may be new or already exist. Regardless of whether the field is new or not, adding a field to a screen without thinking through all relative areas of impact can cause problems for both admins and users. As such, there are multiple considerations a Jira admin must keep in mind when adding… read more

  The days of Atlassian products being used by only technical users are well and truly gone. Atlassian Marketplace app vendors and Atlassian Partners such as Coyote Creek have been a large contributor to this change by producing apps and advanced customizations with improved interfaces and functionality. Jira Service Desk is one such Atlassian platform that a significant number of non-technical users engage with. Jira Service Desk is designed for teams who receive incoming issues and… read more

  By Sean Jason Byrne Atlassian Team Senior Engineer   So, you have Atlassian tools installed, but they’re not working quite the way you expect it to. Maybe it’s a bug. Maybe it’s not. Either way, before you spend gobs of time trying to track down and define this bug, you can first find out if Atlassian is already working on this issue by searching Atlassian’s external Jira. If it really is a bug, it’s… read more

By Kevin Lynch Senior Atlassian Engineer I love Jira Cloud. With Jira Cloud you don’t have to host your own server instance of Jira, and fast support is available when questions or issues arise. Plus, Jira Cloud has many common workflow features, including assigning the issue to certain people, updating fields and more. But every now and then you run into a situation where Jira Cloud doesn’t do what you want it to do “out… read more