Streamlined Financial Approvals in Jira

In the financial sector, where precision and compliance are paramount, approval processes have often been the bottleneck, stalling financial transactions. Enter Approval Path: the Jira extension transforms the cumbersome task of obtaining financial approvals into a streamlined, transparent, and swift process.

Approval Path start parametrization

Introducing parametrization, now you can change the definition name to better suit the approval request and be meaningful!

Example uses of the approval process

With the growth of the company, comes a moment when standardization of the approval process becomes necessary. It could be a moment, when different people are responsible for the decision and realisation, or when reaching each approver becomes too time-consuming.

Product Development with Approval Path for Confluence

Tomasz Dzięcioł • April 29, 2024

JES - Our Brand Hero

You may have noticed that we had a new friend among our ranks for the last few months...

Tomasz Dzięcioł • April 22, 2024

Enhancing Bug Reporting to External Developers with External Share for Jira

Today in JES's Factory things are not going smoothly. The CNC machines have a hard time communicating with the server after a recent software update.

Tomasz Dzięcioł • April 9, 2024

Redefining Partnerships in the Atlassian Ecosystem

In the dynamic world of the Atlassian ecosystem, partnerships are constantly evolving.

Parsa Shiva • March 16, 2024

How-to: create your own financial approval with the Conditional feature

The Conditionals feature for the Approval Path creates a plethora of possibilities for more complex automation. With it, you can control processes without wasting time and energy analyzing what should happen next. You can set it up once and forget about manual management of approvals.

Tomasz Dzięcioł • February 19, 2024

Navigating Feature Deployment with Approval Path for Jira

OrbTech, a hypothetical mid-sized tech company, is deploying a new feature. The recent development of a new functionality takes many steps and requires cooperation from multiple departments. Let's dive into their journey, highlighting how the Approval Path for Jira played a pivotal role.

Tomasz Dzięcioł • February 7, 2024

Conditionals Feature in Approval Path

The introduction of conditional approvals in Approval Path opens up a world of possibilities for project management. By integrating the power of Jira expressions and the Jira REST API, this feature offers a dynamic, adaptable approach to project management that fits perfectly with your unique operational needs.

Tomasz Dzięcioł • February 6, 2024

Reflecting on Our Platinum Journey: A Blend of Pride and Perspective

As we celebrate our ascent to Platinum Marketplace Partner status within the Atlassian ecosystem, the moment is ripe for both recognition and reflection.

Hendrik Bondzio • January 30, 2024

Delegate your approval steps in Approval Path

Make sure your job is done in case of holidays or emergencies with the delegation feature for Approval Path!

Tomasz Dzięcioł • October 30, 2023

Sharing Without Oversharing: Tailored Transparency for External Boards

Learn how to set up Jira boards and automations to ensure external users see only active issues and their own contributions using External Share for Jira.

Parsa Shiva • August 24, 2023

Introducing The New Issue Creation Update for External Share

Let your external users create issues that land directly on your shared board with the new Issue Creation feature for Jira External Share

Tomasz Dzięcioł • August 17, 2023

Boost Team Collaboration with Jira's Smart Checklist + External Share Integration

A look at how the new integration between Smart Checklist and External Share improves transparency, communication, and security.

Parsa Shiva • July 24, 2023

Mastering the Art of Selective Sharing

Do you ever find yourself needing to share a Confluence page with someone outside your organization, but there's just that one piece of sensitive information you'd rather keep under wraps? Well, fear not! Today, we're diving into the magical world of the 'exclude content macro' in the External Share for Confluence add-on.

Parsa Shiva • April 17, 2023

Enhance collaboration with External Share's Roadmap Share feature

Hey there, are you struggling to collaborate with your clients and partners on Jira Roadmaps? Well, fret not, my friend! Let me introduce you to Roadmap Share, the newly introduced feature to External Share, the ultimate feature that enables Jira users to share their Roadmaps with external stakeholders without breaking a sweat.

Parsa Shiva • March 14, 2023

Streamlining Your Approval Process with Automation in Jira

Do you find yourself constantly starting approvals manually for each issue in your project? Do you wish there was a way to automate this tedious process? Well, we have great news for you! In this blog post, we will guide you through the steps to automatically start an approval path for any issue that goes through a specific status transition.

Parsa Shiva • February 6, 2023

Popular Confluence Macros That External Users Can See

Here's a quick guide to the legality of e-signatures in certain jurisdictions, so you can make sure your global contracts stand up.

Christopher Berry • January 12, 2023

Making Sure Your E-signatures Are Legal Worldwide

Here's a quick guide to the legality of e-signatures in certain jurisdictions, so you can make sure your global contracts stand up.

Christopher Berry • January 5, 2023

Issue filed steps - email edition

Approval Path for Jira, enables users to take advantage of issue fields by assigning approvers based on issue field values!

Parsa Shiva • December 20, 2022

Approval Path for Confluence - Now free of charge

Parsa Shiva • December 7, 2022

Jira projects templates

Jira is one of the most popular issue tracking and project management software. When released in 2002, it was designed as an issue tracking platform for software developers. It has become more popular, so Atlassian expanded the Jira platform and gave users a choice between Jira Software, Jira Work Management and Jira Service Management.

Iga Popławska • October 19, 2022

Multiple approvals

The time has come yet again for a new feature! A feature YOU asked for!If you are using the Approval Path, you have likely considered this feature at some point in your experience.

Parsa Shiva • October 17, 2022

Approval Path API - Now with Reset support

Parsa Shiva • October 7, 2022

External Share for Confluence versus Atlassian's Guest Users Feature

What's the difference between External Share for Confluence and Atlassian's recently announced guest users feature? Let's find out.

Christopher Berry • October 6, 2022

Permission flexibility!?

We have a new and rather EXITING update!!! (on both Jira and Confluence)We've been working around the concept of approval path for quite some time, if you are a user of Approval Path, you probably work in an environment where permission hierarchies play a role, hence the need of approvals!

Parsa Shiva • October 5, 2022

Add Signatures to Jira Issues with the New E-Signature App

Our new app lets you add e-signatures to Jira issues to sign off proposed/completed tasks, or turn your issues into quick contracts for work.

Christopher Berry • August 30, 2022

Approval path with external user participation

Usually, an approval process takes place within the organisation. However, in some cases, a decision from someone outside your Jira or Confluence is needed. There is no point in adding this user to your instance when there is an easier and faster solution provided by the Approval Path apps.

Iga Popławska • August 19, 2022

Big update pack

We are constantly developing our apps to make them more useful. Lately, we added some improvements to the Approval Path for Jira and the Approval Path for Confluence. Let’s walk through some of them.

Iga Popławska • August 10, 2022

How to Share Your Jira Agile Board with External Users

Learn how to effectively share and collaborate on Jira Agile boards with external stakeholders, maximizing productivity and cross-team communication.

Christopher Berry • August 5, 2022

Custom Domains for Confluence and Jira: The Ultimate Workaround to End Your CLOUD-6999 Woes

Set up custom domains and links so that all the Confluence pages and Jira issues you share externally can be white-labeled under your brand.

Christopher Berry • July 29, 2022

Achieving a Single Source of Truth in your Organization

Attaining a single source of truth in your organization means getting as many users as possible to adopt a single platform like Confluence. Here's how.

Christopher Berry • June 24, 2022

Approval Path vs Build-in Jira Approval solution

In this article, we will look into the differences between the approval processes in the Approval Path and in the Jira Service Management

Iga Popławska • June 17, 2022

How to Make, Manage, and Sign Contracts in Confluence

Wanna ditch all the multifarious, siloed tools your company uses to create and collaborate on sales and legal contracts? Try Confluence.

Christopher Berry • May 26, 2022

With Automation, Dark Mode, Custom Domains & More, External Share is Basically A New App

With automated shares, custom domains, dark mode & more, External Share for Jira & Confluence is effectively a brand new app!

Christopher Berry • May 12, 2022

Digitally Sign Contracts in Confluence with Old Street’s Brand New App

Our brand new app lets you bring all of your contract management processes into Confluence, including the most important bit: the signing.

Christopher Berry • May 5, 2022

Controlling Who Sees Your External Share for Confluence and Jira Links

Now you can keep your data extra secure by sharing your External Share for Confluence and Jira links only with selected users. Find out how.

Christopher Berry • March 8, 2022

How to Customize your External Share Email Templates

Find out how to customize the email template for sending External Share for Jira and Confluence links with your own content and branding.

Christopher Berry • January 25, 2022

How to Share Jira with External Users (Securely)

Here are 3 options for best-practice secure collaboration with external users in Jira, with security tips, pros & cons, and ideal use cases.

Chris Cooke • November 9, 2021

4 Ways of Sharing Confluence Content

There's lots of reasons you may want to share Confluence pages. Here are 4 options - PDF & Word, Public Space, External Share and Licensing.

Morgan Folsom • November 4, 2021

How to manage approvals in Jira – a step-by-step guide

In this article we will walk through how to use Approval Path to create, use, and manage approvals in Jira.

Christopher Berry • October 16, 2021

Approval management is the missing piece of the Jira toolset

Native Jira’s only approval management functionality is in Jira Service Management (JSM), and we’re being kind when we say it’s, urm, not the best. In Jira Software and Jira Work Management (JWM), a workaround is your only option for getting a process, proposal, or purchase approved within Jira.

Christopher Berry • October 9, 2021

Wanna See Some More? Now Your External Users Can Become Watchers on Jira Issues

External Watch lets external users subscribe to the issues you’ve given them access to. This saves time and makes collaboration more immediate.

Christopher Berry • June 24, 2021