Approval path with external user participation
Usually, an approval process takes place within the organisation. However, in some cases, a decision from someone outside your Jira or Confluence is needed. There is no point in adding this user to your instance when there is an easier and faster solution provided by the Approval Path apps, which is the email step. All you need is a decisive person’s email address, on which will be sent a call for action message.
Big update pack
We are constantly developing our apps to make them more useful. Lately, we added some improvements to the Approval Path for Jira and the Approval Path for Confluence. Let’s walk through some of them. Parallel group In response to customer requests, we added the parallel group to both the Approval Path for Jira and the Approval Path for Confluence. It allows all users added to the group to approve or reject parallelly.
How to Share Your Jira Agile Board with External Users
There’ll be times when you want to share a bunch of Jira issues externally without buying extra licenses . Maybe you’re working on a project with an external partner or contractor that has multiple issues requiring the external user’s attention. External Share for Jira allows you to give external users secure, temporary access to those issues in three ways: Create External Share links to each issue individually Create an External Share link to a list of issues using Jira Query Language (JQL) Create an External Share link to an entire Scrum or Kanban board If you have a lot of issues to share, you probably don’t want to go down route one.
Custom Domains for Confluence and Jira: The Ultimate Workaround to End Your CLOUD-6999 Woes
The Atlassian Community has been hankering after custom domains for Confluence and Jira for absolute yonks. It’s difficult to offer continuity of service – not to mention disorienting for the customer – when you’re directing them to a website that’s not your company’s in order to view your resources and documentation. You’ve probably heard of the famous CLOUD-6999 Jira ticket . Behind it lies a tale of woe and despair.
Example uses of the approval process
With the growth of the company, comes a moment when standardization of the approval process becomes necessary. It could be a moment, when different people are responsible for the decision and realisation, or when reaching each approver becomes too time-consuming. The approval process can be carried out in an outdated way - with emails, PDFs, Word documents, or at worst, on paper… But luckily we can use approval management apps like Approval Path for Jira and Approval Path for Confluence to improve the process.
Achieving a Single Source of Truth in your Organization
Single source of truth (SSOT) is a concept used to ensure that everyone in an organization makes decisions based on the same data. In document management terms, it’s about centralizing all relevant and up-to-date documents about your company and projects so that they’re accessible from one place. Why is it important? Because if your teams are storing important documents in personal inboxes or saving them to desktops and folders that no one else can access, they’re effectively hiding information from the rest of the team.
Approval Path vs Build-in Jira Approval solution
Jira’s only built-in functionality to set up an approval process is in the Jira Service Management. Approvals in Jira Service Management are associated with the workflow. While this is useful, it also creates some limitations. In this article, we will look into the differences between the approval processes in the Approval Path and in the Jira Service Management Approval Path Jira Project types Any kind of project Jira Service Management Number of steps As many as needed One approval - one step Step types User, Group, Issue Field- User, Issue Field- Group, Email, Webhook User, Group Approval definitions ✔ ✘ Path visualisation Clear, legible Illegible Project types The Approval Path app allows you to run the approval in any type of issue in any type of project, unlike Jira’s native approval process which can be used only in Jira Service Management, only in issues that have approval added to a workflow.
How to Make, Manage, and Sign Contracts in Confluence
Lots of the organizations we encounter are using Microsoft Word, Google, Adobe, SharePoint, and various other tools to create, collaborate on, and store their agreements. Many of these tools don’t integrate with each other, putting teams and their data into silos. Silos that breed delays and replication in the contract management process. With so many more people now working remotely, silos are becoming harder to maintain. Increasing numbers of organizations are looking to centralize their data and achieve a single source of truth in order to alleviate the confusion and poor data quality that comes from having distributed teams spread across time zones, all working off different information.
With Automation, Dark Mode, Custom Domains & More, External Share is Basically A New App
Our team have added so many new features and improvements to External Share for Jira and Confluence over the past few months that what customers are getting now is effectively a brand new app. Let’s walk through some of the additions. Automated Share Management We would all rather be doing things that are valuable. Things that make us money. Admin tasks don’t make us money. They make us bored.
Digitally Sign Contracts in Confluence with Warsaw Dynamics' Brand New App
Confluence is already an ideal place to be creating, managing, and storing your contracts . Of course, the most important feature of any contract is the signatures of the parties. It’s not an agreement till someone agrees to it. And yet, there’s no way of digitally signing contracts inside Confluence. You’d need to export it and use another digital signature tool like DocuSign, taking the process and the audit trail outside of the platform you’re working in.
