December 2021

When you delete a project from your Jira instance, make sure you also clear your trash so that your project key is available again for you to use.

#GetAnswers #DeletedProjectKeys

I bought a new mic MOVO VXR 10 today to improve the audio quality of my videos.

#MOVOVXR10 #Canon200D

To make consistent graphics using proper page size and guidelines in Inkscape really helps. Having locked guides and snap to guide option enabled helps a lot.

#Inkscape #PageSize #Guide #Guidelines

I launched a new app on Atlassian marketplace called "Stay on top" which will help you in getting key information related to your issue in one go. Please give this app a try and let me know your feedback.

Download Stay on top

#AppReview #StayOnTop #Sparxsys

Let us quickly create a circular profile pic using inkscape. It takes only few minutes and is super easy to do. Very useful when you want to upload circular images on social media sites like linkedin, youtube or facebook.

#Inkscape #ProfilePics #CircularImages #Clip

You can automatically flag issues when they are added to a sprint but to find scope change there is already a burn down chart and sprint health gadget that will show you this information.

#JiraCloud #Automation #Sprint #Flag #Impediment

Insert is one of my favourite Drupal module. It makes inserting images in the content effortless. Let us learn how to configure and use it today.

#Drupal #Insert #InlineImages

Embedded database should only be used for evaluation and testing purpose. For production instances always use a proper database like MySQL or PostgreSQL.

#GetAnswers #EmbeddedDatabase

Today I finally updated my company @sparxsys website with the revamped version and I thought it is a good opportunity to share with all of you how to use Drupal to create a company website to showcase your company's products and services

#Drupal #CompanyWebsite #sparxsys

You should setup a change control board to manage your Jira configurations and yes using shared configurations is a good idea.

#GetAnswers #SharedConfigurations #BestPractices

You can use Drush in Drupal 9 to bulk delete nodes of a specific content type using a simple commands. It is very convenient and super helpful.

#Drupal #Drush #BulkDelete #Drupal9

Keen an eye on your execution limit and audit log in your Jira Cloud instance.

#JiraCloud #Automation #Usage #AuditLog

Let us create a view showing similar content based o taxonomy terms and also ensuring that the same content is excluded from the view.

#Drupal #Taxonomy #SimilarContent

Let us talk about various backup options in Confluence.

#GetAnswers #Confluence #Backup

Let us create a taxonomy view to display terms grouped by parents and also create a view with a contextual filter based on term parents. This can be super useful when displaying your categories nicely on the website.

#Drupal #Taxonomy

When you need help from developers to resolve an incident then creating a linked issue is your best option and then use automation to sync those issues.

#GetAnswers #Automation #LinkedIssues

Started using terminal? Great, now use an utility like tree to list content of a directory in a tree format. You will love it.

#tree #ListDirectoryContent #Linux

Today let us learn how to quickly apply an ssl certificate on a website because we all love https, don't we?

#Apache #Certbot #letsencrypt

If you are new to Jira then it is very important to understand how project, issue types, workflows and other configurations work together.

#GetAnswers #IssueHierarchy #ConsolidateProgress

When adding a new user to your cloud instance make sure they are given the right role. You don't want to add too many administrators.

#GetAnswers #TrustedUsers #SiteAdministrators

Let us install Drupal 9.3.0 today using drupal-composer project, it will take less than 10 mins and it super easy.

Drupal Install/Upgrade runbook: https://ravi.pro/blog/mastering-drupal.html

#Drupal #Composer #Drupal9

"Revoke Mike's access on 31st March 2022", do you want to do these things automatically in your Jira instance? Yes it is possible using Jira Cloud Automation.

#Automation #ScheduledTransition

I just upgraded my site Drupal from 8.8.2 to 9.3.0 using composer. Also I am now planning to use domain access module instead of multisite feature because I want to share not only the code base but also the database. Also I am sharing my Drupal upgrade runbook in case you want to do the same.

Drupal upgrade runbook: https://ravi.pro/blog/mastering-drupal.html

#Drupal #Composer #Drupal9

Today I got access to team central beta and I thought I will take a look at it along with all of you and share my initial feedback.

#AtlassianUpdate #TeamCentral

After upgrading your Jira instance you might also have to upgrade your apps. If you are unable to create issues after the upgrade then most likely it is due to a plugin/app which is not working and needs to be upgraded as well.

#GetAnswers #JiraUpgrade #UnableToCreateIssues #Validators

Interesting question asked on the community related to automatically transitioning an issue based on attachment added to the ticket. Let us discuss it,

#ScriptRunner #Listener #Validator #Attachment

I prefer using emacsclient for editing text files on my computer because it will connect to my emacs server with my configurations.

#orgmode #emacs #emacsclient

Great news for all, finally you can rename Epics in Jira and if you are using Advanced Roadmaps then you will be able to also rename your Hierarchy level, this can be super useful for organisations using SAFe where they may want to use Initiatives - Epics - Feature - Story - Task levels.

#RenameEpics #JiraSoftware #CustomHierarchy

Announcement post

I found a simple way to detect whether my ThinkPad is on the ultrabase dock or not so that I can automatically turn on/off an external monitor or set keyboard layout automatically.

#shell #laptop #dock #ultrabase

If you have too many projects in your Jira Service Management then there is definitely a problem, let us try to understand how projects work in JSM.

#GetAnswers #JSM #Project

Install libreoffice and you can use terminal based utilities like soffice to quickly convert from one file format to another. Let us do that today.

#convert #libreoffice

Let us learn how to filter issues based on when they were transitioned from one status to another status. Could this very useful when creating reports.

#GetAnswers #JQL #TransitionDate

Inspired by Luke Smith I made the UK version of ThinkPad of cars.

#ThinkPad #cars #NissanAlmera

Don't let too many people admin your Jira instance, setup a chance control board for configuration changes and use scripts to delegate configuration changes or doing routine things like project creation.

#GetAnswers #ModifyConfigurations #ChangeRequest

Learn how to promote yourself. Do you own marketing.

#SelfMarketing

You can change your Jira and Confluence site URL, it very simple to do and take few minutes. Just make sure your apps support site url change.

Some useful links
Update product url
CLOUD-10809
Impact on installed apps

#JiraCloudURL #ChangeURL #UpdateURL

Wondering what kind of jobs you can get if you get into Atlassian tools? Not sure if learning Jira will help you in career growth? Let use find some jobs together.

#CareerAdvice #JiraJobs #AtlassianJobs

Let us create a GitHub organisation today

#Github #Organisation

I am not going to sell my courses on Udemy. My courses would always be free and available on YouTube for everyone :)

#ChannelUpdate #RaviSagar #FreeAtlassianCourses #LearnJira

I use a very simple one line shell script to copy my songs from an mpd playlist to a usb drive or mobile phone. Take few seconds and it is a great way to sync your songs across devices using your own script.

#shell #mpd #copysongs #readline #whileloop

After moving issues from one project to another project Jira will create issues in the new project with new issue keys, but your old issue url with old keys will still work because Jira will do the redirect for you.

#GetAnswers #Redirect #MoveIssues

If you a ambitious like me and dream of buying a house in south of France by the beach and may be a Maserati then start working hard now and in case you need a system then try Org Mode to keep track of your goals and organise your life.

#orgmode #emacs #clocktime #LifeGoals

There is no comment history in Jira natively but on cloud I found one app which I try but it didn't work for me. I thought I will share it with you. I am sure something went wrong and I will try again.

#AppReview #CommentHistoryLog

Do you want to waste your time? I guess not :) So why not use terminal based utility to convert PDF files to PNG?

#convert #imagemagick #pdf #images

I think learning Jira Work Management is the best way to get yourself started with Jira. It has lot of nice features and it is simple enough that can be understood by anyone. What do you think?

#CareerAdvice #JiraWorkManagement

You cannot display your sub-tasks transition screen on the parent issue's transition. To copy or edit sub tasks fields on parent transition you need to use automation.

#GetAnswers #Automation #ParentTransition

Focus on learning and long term goals.

#Arch #Linux #Fedora #Ubuntu

You can use Jira's bulk change feature to revert the changes you just did but how would you identify those changed issues?

#GetAnswers #BulkChange #Revert

Christmas lights on in Burnham, Parade and Carols :)

#ChristmasLightsOn #Burnham #Slough

Creating a page in Confluence using REST API is one of the most useful automation that you can. It has plenty of applications like creating a report automatically based on a trigger from another ticket.

#ConfluenceRESTAPI #CreatePage

End point: POST /wiki/rest/api/content

Code: https://github.com/sparxsys/confluence-shell-scripts/blob/main/createPa…

Atlassian just announced that many popular apps like ScriptRunner for Jira, BigPicture, draw.io, Easy Agile and many more are now free for 1-10 users. This is a great news for many small team. Thank you Atlassian.

#AtlassianUpdates #FreeApps

Creating and publishing release notes can be a time consuming process and that is where Automated Release Notes for Jira app can help to not only save time but also to generate beautiful release notes in various formats. Today I had the pleasure of talking to Anand Inamdar, CEO of Amoeboids who showed me various features of this app.

#ExpertTalks #Amoeboids #ReleaseNotes

Automated Release Notes for Jira

Do you want to set the request type when create a new JSM ticket automatically? It is possible, let us learn how to do it.

#Automation #RequestType #JSM

Today is my first day at @sparxsys and I already have a plans for December. It is vacation time in UK soon so I will be using this time to make Udemy courses. I have so much to share with everyone and lot of people have been asking me to do it.

#Sparxsys #Udemy #Jira #Courses

Launching Sparxsys Announcement video