New Daily Standup Report template for better team tracking! 🚀📊

We’ve introduced a new template in the gallery for Daily Standup Reports, designed to enhance team status tracking. This template organizes your team’s progress by displaying issues assigned to each member in To-Do, Doing, and Done categories. For each issue, the report shows the issue key and summary, providing a concise snapshot of the team’s workload and progress during a sprint.

This feature helps you easily monitor tasks and manage team performance more effectively. The layout is clean and sequential, ensuring that all essential information is accessible at a glance, making your daily standups more efficient.

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Customize ARNR Calendar titles and see project legends! 🗓️✨

You can now customize the title of your ARNR Calendar gadget for better organization on your dashboards. A new "Name" field has been added, allowing you to set a unique title that reflects the specific projects within the gadget.

Additionally, we've added project legends directly on the calendar. The project key will now appear on each release strip, making it easy to identify which project corresponds to which color. These updates improve usability across all dashboard layouts.

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Introducing Template 4: timeline-based release pages with enhanced features! 📅✨

We’re excited to introduce Template 4, a new timeline-style release page template with a date-wise timeline on the left and detailed issue information on the right.

This template offers customizable configurations, and includes features like floating release titles and responsive mobile design.

Manage your releases with ease and provide your users with a clear, organized view of all updates.

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Enhanced bar chart customization with series colors, titles, and labels 🎨📊

This update enhances user control over bar chart presentation by introducing several customization options:

1. Improved Customization: Users can now adjust series colors, titles, label positions, and grid lines to better match their data visualization needs and aesthetic preferences.
2. Dynamic Chart Titles: Users can include or exclude a chart title dynamically, providing flexibility in how charts are presented and making reports more informative and aligned with the content.
3. Enhanced Clarity: Options for customizing X-axis and Y-axis titles and label formats improve the readability and relevance of the chart, making it easier for users to interpret data at a glance.
4. Consistent Appearance: Existing charts maintain their current look unless explicitly updated, ensuring that past reports remain unchanged unless users decide to modify them.

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Custom variable defaults now apply for automated triggers 🔄

Default values for custom variables are now applied when templates are triggered via automated rules. This update ensures that automated triggers (e.g., version release, scheduled at interval, etc.) use the default values for custom variables, aligning with manual trigger behavior. If a default value is empty, no value will be used.

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Page Title Customization: Flexible title options for hassle-free page updates. 📄

• Page Title Customization: A new "Page title" setting allows users to choose how the page title is handled while creating or updating a confluence page. Options include using the source template's page title, customizing the page title with text and variables, or retaining the existing page title. This flexibility helps avoid naming conflicts and ensures clarity.
• Empty Check: An "Empty check" option is now available to prevent page creation or updates if none of the JQL sections and stats return any data. This ensures that only meaningful content is created, and users are notified if no data is found.
• ARNR Branding: The "ARNR branding" checkbox lets users add ARNR branding text at the bottom of the page. I

These enhancements provide more control over content creation and ensure consistent branding across all Confluence pages.

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Support for Jira Cloud's new [versionDriver] and [versionApprovers] variables in ARNR templates 🚀

Jira recently introduced the ability to add drivers and appropvers to a release. We are now introducing support for corresponding version variables, [versionDriver] and [versionApprovers], in ARNR templates. These variables automatically replace with the corresponding user's display name in the generated content. If no driver or approvers are assigned, the variables will be replaced with "Empty." This update is available across all template types and components where version variables are used.

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Fixes for bullet listing and quote styling in ARNR Confluence templates 📋

We've addressed these issues in the ARNR Confluence templates :

1. Bullet Listing Layout: Fixed extra spacing issues in bullet lists using sequential layout. Bulleted content now aligns properly on the same line.
2. Quote Styling in JQL Sections: Resolved extra line spacing and unwanted quotation marks in field variables when applying quote styling. The styling now appears correctly without extra spaces.

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Direct JQL section edits without navigating main template code. ✨

The enhancement of editing capabilities for JQL section elements, such as the source code of sequential layout, title, description, table properties, and color picker for font colors, has been achieved. Previously, these features were inaccessible due to opening in a pop-up over the JQL section's own pop-up. Users were constrained to customize these settings by delving into the main template's source code, a challenging task for the average user. Now, users can directly customize these elements without the need to navigate through the main template's source code.

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Trigger actions on release day with N days set to 0. 🚀

The rule trigger ‘Schedule before N number of days of a release’ now lets you trigger actions on release day. Just set 'before days’ to '0'.

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New fonts (Work Sans, Ubuntu) added to template editor! ✅

We've added Work Sans and Ubuntu fonts to our template builder. You can now choose them from the font drop-down in the template editor and JQL sections on ARNR cloud apps!

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📧 New Email Templates: Release, Version, Sprint, and Support Reports 🚀

We are introducing these four Email templates in the template gallery

• Release planning report
• Version workload report
• Sprint review report
• Weekly customer support report

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Webhook enhancements now support POST requests and secure URL updates! 🔒

The ‘Webhook’ trigger just got better with these changes!

• Support for POST requests: Now, rule webhooks support POST requests, letting you add version, sprint, or custom variables within the request body. You can also view and copy the variable list in JSON format.
• Variable query parameters: GET requests still work, with variables dynamically added to the URL as query parameters.
• Ability to update webhook URL: Now, you can update the 'webhook' of a rule anytime with the 'Regenerate URL' action. Just click it to get a new, secure URL. Remember, once you regenerate, the old URL won't work anymore.
• Enhanced security: The new webhook URLs that get generated for a rule have enhanced security.

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Fixed multiline fields in Slack templates for plain text. 🛠️

Fixed: Adding multiline fields in JQL section in Slack templates. Works great with plain text now, but rich text elements might not display perfectly due to Slack’s message builder limitations.

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Global templates now viewable without ARN access in parent project. 🌐✨

Fixed! Now everyone can view and preview global templates, even without ARN access in the parent project of that global template.

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Fixed bug preventing email rule messages being sent. 📧🐛

Fixed a bug where email rules weren't sending messages to issue users.

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Default sender email address for email actions updated 📧

We're updating the default sender email address for email actions to updates@releasenotes.co effective August 1, 2024. Any existing email actions still using the previous default sender email address (autoreleasenotes@amoeboids.com) have now been transitioned to utilize this new email address. We recommend configuring your company email address through SMTP to strengthen trust and credibility with your audience. Know more.

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Ability to add numbered columns to JQL tables! ✅

You can now add a numbered column to the JQL table. Just tick the box in the fields tab!

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Generate awesome summaries with AI in Confluence templates! 🚀

AI generator is now in Confluence templates! Use your prompts, JQL, and Jira fields for awesome summaries. Impress your team with cool release notes and custom prompts.

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Custom variables now supported in Confluence templates! 🎉

Now you can use custom variables in Confluence templates! Quickly make tailored release notes. Add variables in your template, JQLs, etc., and use one template for different tasks.

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Fixed bug preventing users from selecting specific Confluence spaces. 🛠️

There was a bug that prevented users from searching and selecting certain types of Confluence spaces within the Confluence rule action. This issue has been resolved in this release.

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