Votazz Blog
Tips, guides, and news for Jira admins and power users.
November 6, 2026
Jira search lists the child work items of a parent, but it has no function that walks down the tree and no sum. Here is…
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October 29, 2026
Jira's CHANGED search covers six fields and returns work items, not changes. Here is a 10-minute check on your own project, and how Issue History…
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October 22, 2026
Jira's Control Chart measures cycle time on a 24-hour clock, so every night counts as work. Here is how to see the gap on your…
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October 15, 2026
A JQL search for last month's worklogs returns whole work items, and their Time Spent adds up every hour ever logged on them. Here is…
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September 29, 2026
Connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your Jira and Confluence is allowed by default and needs no admin approval. One audit log filter, free on every…
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September 25, 2026
Sites created or migrated to Confluence Cloud on or after 16 October 2023 arrived with public links allowed in every space. A public link overrides…
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August 20, 2026
Jira's first genuinely new field type in years closed a request from 2015. Free on every Cloud edition, 51 functions, two limits Atlassian states outright,…
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July 30, 2026
Confluence has no stale-content report and no orphaned-pages screen since 7.0. Here are 10 queries that find deletable pages and measure attachment version bloat —…
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July 23, 2026
AWS diagrams take about an hour by hand. About five minutes with AI — the math, the sources, and where we are honestly estimating.
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July 7, 2026
AI-authored code crossed 50% in 2026 and code review became the bottleneck: developers feel 20% faster but ship 19% slower, and 61% of AI pull…
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