We are proud to be featured in Atlassian’s annual Developer Day to be one of the pioneer Forge apps listed on Atlassian Marketplace.
What is Atlassian Forge
Forge is Atlassian’s next generation Cloud app development platform. Unlike traditional cloud apps, Forge apps run within Atlassian’s infrastructure, providing better performance and stronger integration. The data can be stored in Atlassian Cloud, which can address compliance issues like GDPR or data residency.
Introducing our 5 new Forge apps
This time round, we are launching not 1, but 5 Cloud apps that are all built on Atlassian Forge. 3 of them are brand new apps which are only available for Atlassian Cloud.
1) Banners for Confluence Cloud (Cloud First)
You can now add Confluence macros to display heading banners to improve the readability of your content in Confluence.
2) Canned Search for Confluence Cloud
Users can search faster with better results by using contextual information from the current page. You can
- restrict your search to the children pages
- click the auto-generated link to go the previous meeting minutes/release notes
- order the search results based on the modified date
- output the search results in tabular format
3) Countdown Timer for Confluence Cloud
This is a Cloud edition for our popular app for Confluence Server/Data Center. It displays the time remaining based on the date provided in the Confluence macro.
This is useful to remind the project teams how much time they have to their next major delivery.
4) Issue Progress for Jira Cloud (Cloud First)
This Jira Forge app allows users to generate a report across linked/sub-task issues based on the selected metric (e.g. count, story points, number fields, etc) within the issue view. This enables user to have a quick overview of current issue’s progress and the distribution of workload across the related issues.
5) Related Tickets for Jira Cloud (Cloud First)
We built this app specially for ourselves since we use Jira Service Management Cloud to support our customers on Atlassian Marketplace. By dog-fooding, we can understand the pain points and come up with better strategy or solutions.
Now, we can see the tickets raised by the same Reporter in the issue. This helps in providing us with a better picture, so that we can address our customers in a personalized manner.
How is our experience with Forge?
As an Cloud app vendor, we like Forge because the backend infrastructure is taken care totally by Atlassian. There is no need for us to spend time and money to set up and monitor external platforms. We only need to focus on developing the apps.
We are looking forward to more features in Forge so that we can add more capabilities to our Cloud apps. Our #1 wish is to display the number of active instances on the Marketplace listing. Currently, the number of Forge installations are not included in the count.
How can you help?
We look forward to your feedback on how to improve our Cloud apps. You can reach out to us via our Service Desk running on Jira Service Management Cloud.
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