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Short term plans

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Short term plans

It has been now one working week since the release of version 1.7.1 of Project Configurator. This new version finishes some rough edges present in version 1.7 and adds other practical improvements, like a better handling of field configurations or a more consistent...

Atlassian Marketplace hits $100M

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Atlassian Marketplace hits $100M

Atlassian Marketplace has reached 100 million US dollars in sales! The news was published by Fortune magazine last Monday. This is a really impressive milestone for everybody. At Awnaba Software, we are very happy with our contribution to this achievement, and look...

Some improvements

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Some improvements

Hi all, version 1.7 of Project Configurator was released last week. It includes some bug fixes and a few nice improvements. One of these improvements lets the user import dashboards present in the XML file, but not the system dashboard. This can be useful if you do...

About large configurations

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About large configurations

The last version of Project Configurator featured some improvements oriented to the export and import of large configurations. Our idea of a large configuration is one that creates a XML file with size greater than 5 or 10 MB when exported. These configurations create...

Compatibility with JIRA version 6.4.4 and higher

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Compatibility with JIRA version 6.4.4 and higher

Last Wednesday, a user discovered a problem while loading a configuration file into JIRA 6.4.4 with Project Configurator version 1.5.1. That problem (PCP-285) would occur in most situations when loading a configuration into JIRA 6.4.4 and higher. There is a...

Oops! A problem with our issue tracker…

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Oops! A problem with our issue tracker…

Sorry, there was a problem with our issue tracker. In a few words, anonymous users could not search for issues even though they could view them if they typed their URL in the browser (like awnaba.atlassian.net/browse/PCP-221). This was confusing ( to say the least)...

Improving dashboards

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Improving dashboards

Last Friday, we released version 1.5.1. This version centers on some improvements for dashboards, especially making their export more robust. With the rest of object types (custom fields, schemes, workflows,…) the general approach when exporting is that a...

Dashboards and JIRA 6.4

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Dashboards and JIRA 6.4

There have been two new versions of Project Configurator in these weeks. On March 24th, we released version 1.4.5 that brought compatibility with JIRA 6.4 (but no functional changes). And last week version 1.5! This version includes, as we announced in mid February,...

Next steps

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Next steps

Last Wednesday version 1.4.4 was released. The reason behind this version was releasing the fix for PCP-252(instead of waiting till next scheduled version v1.5). Our roadmap for the next weeks is still focused on adding support for dashboards, which will be included...

Roadmap

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Roadmap

We have just released version 1.4.3, and ten days earlier version 1.4.2. Both versions are focused on bug fixes and minor improvements. Most of them are related to the new features introduced in the last months: filters and smart custom field contexts. Our next...

More about filters

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More about filters

Version 1.4.1, released today, completes handling of filters thanks to the support of IDs, as a means of identifying custom fields or values in JQL queries. Please, have a look at the documentation about this support for more information and an interesting tip if you...

New version, new features

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New version, new features

Yesterday we have released version 1.4 of Project Configurator. This version includes two relevant new features. The first feature is the ability to export and load filters. Very often, when an admin is setting up a new project in JIRA or fulfilling a user request, he...

Welcome aboard!

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Welcome aboard!

There is a new hand in Awnaba crew: Juan M. Triguero, who has joined our team in October. His main job will be to help with new developments. By the way, we expect some of these exciting new features to appear in the new version 1.4.0, scheduled for next week. In a...

Status categories

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Status categories

Since the beginning of this week, new version 1.3.5 of Project Configurator is available at the marketplace. Its main change is supporting status categories, that were added in JIRA 6.2 (until now they were silently ignored). The new version also includes other...

Troubleshooting docs

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Troubleshooting docs

Project Configurator documentation has been improved these days. There are new articles that try to explain the causes and likely solutions for some of the problems that users have reported when using the plugin. Most of these new pages can be seen here. Our goal is...

Now on JIRA Data Center!

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Now on JIRA Data Center!

Today we have released a new version of Project Configurator: 1.3.4. This is the first version designed to be compatible with a JIRA Data Center cluster. Our tests showed that previous versions did export and load correctly configurations in a clustered environment....

Compatibility with JIRA 6.3

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Compatibility with JIRA 6.3

We have just released version 1.3.3 of Project Configurator. This new version is functionally equivalent to version 1.3.2 and is also compatible with versions 6.3 and 6.3.1 of JIRA. Our next goal is to complete tests and required changes, if any, to ensure that it...

Support for JIRA Workflow Toolbox

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Support for JIRA Workflow Toolbox

Our new version 1.3.2 is available today at the Atlassian Marketplace. Its main feature is adding support for workflow conditions, validators and post-functions defined by JIRA Workflow Toolbox plugin. This is a superb workflow plugin developed by Fidel Castro...