JIRA tip of the month – find any issue fast with complex query shortcuts

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. When was the last time you used the "Quick Search" box in the top right corner of every screen in JIRA? If you're anything like me, you probably use it almost daily. The Quick Search box is commonly used to navigate directly to an issue or perform a free text search across all of JIRA. But the Quick Search box is much

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Learn about JIRA 6 with University

  • By Jesse Katz, Program Manager, Atlassian University
  • JIRA
  • On June 13, 2013
The newly designed Atlassian University lessons are now available for JIRA 6. If the newbies on your team don't know the how to add a gadget to a dashboard or save a search filter, we recommend Atlassian University.  With interactive tutorials and videos, you'll stay up to date on all the new JIRA features. Learn about University

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How Atlassian Uses JIRA: Email Marketing

When I joined the marketing team at Atlassian, I was tasked with ramping up our email program. If your company sends emails to market your product/solution, and you use Atlassian's JIRA, read no further and download the free 'Outgoing Email Workflow' for JIRA now. The problem Atlassian sends a lot of email to its 25,000+ customers. In fact, in the last 12 months we've sent about six million emails ranging in content from our monthly newsletter, JIRA tips, Confluence tips, product announcements,

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Meet the new JIRA you can take everywhere!

JIRA goes mobile JIRA 6 brings you a whole new mobile interface. With JIRA mobile you can stay connected and update issues while on the go, so you're never blocking your team. We focused on the core user stories that empower your teams to use JIRA wherever, whenever. With the enhanced issue navigator optimized for the PC and a new mobile interface, you can maximize your productivity, no matter the device. When logging into JIRA from a mobile web browser on an iPhone or Android device,

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Simplify

I believe that Simplify is the shortest blog post title we've done to date. I couldn't think of anything better to announce that we're going to simplify our product portfolio naming. In the coming months, we will be changing the names and logos of some of our add-on products with two goals in mind: Make it simple for customers to understand our product list at-a-glance. Make it easy for customers to distinguish stand-alone products from Atlassian add-ons. What exactly is changing? The

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Using watchers and @mentions effectively

JIRA makes it easy to keep others in the loop and stay on top of issues you care about.  For notifications to be effective you can't overwhelm your audience.  JIRA has three notification methods known as notification schemes, watchers, and @mentions.  In this blog article we will focus on watchers and @mentions as they apply to all users.  Let's look at how we can use both to send just the right amount of notifications to ourselves as well as our team.  For reference, notification schemes are

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