Community FiveByFive Round-up: August 2025

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, it’s the community release notes, and this time there is a MASSIVE new feature for you. The account switcher is a highly requested feature to make it easier to switch back and forth between your various Atlassian accounts within the community. Be sure to read the entire post to learn more.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Announcement-articles/Community-release-notes-for-August-4-2025/ba-p/3083181

• At the same time, some fixes have been released for the bookmark kudos badge. If you were struggling to earn this, be sure to read the updates to see if your use case has been resolved. If this is the first time you are hearing about this new badge, here’s your opportunity to go earn it!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/Mini-kudos-release-notes-Bookmarker-badge-update-August-6-2025/ba-p/3084926

• Speaking of earning badges, there is now a brand new bootcamp for rising stars with recommendations on how you can grow within the community. If you are looking for some guidance on what to do next. Check this out!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Contributors-articles/Level-Up-with-the-Rising-Star-Bootcamp/ba-p/3087101

• Next, there is a new group within the community for you to keep an eye on. For all of you that are getting into the Teamwork collection, there is a new community group just for you. Even if you aren’t on the teamwork collection, feel free to join the group and watch for relevant questions to any of the products apps that you use which are included in this bundle.https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Loom-articles/Introducing-the-new-Teamwork-Collection-community-group/ba-p/3080643

• Finally, I thought this was a great prompt from a member of the Community management team at Atlassian. If you are new and looking for advice, you will want to check this out for all the tips and tricks from the pros. If you are a seasoned veteran, be sure to add your own advice in the comments.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/What-would-be-your-advice-to-first-time-Jira-admins/ba-p/3084131

Member Article Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing articles written by many of your fellow community members. This is just a small sample of all the great content you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, I think we all know that life can be busy and the last thing we need to do is sort through and organize our email inbox. Not just for work but our personal one as well.  @Bibek Behera has shared some amazing tips about how he has managed to organize his personal bills and payments using Gmail and the “free“ tier of Jira service management. If you would like to live in “Organized Bliss“ like he does, you should give this one a read!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/JSM-News-Discussions-articles/From-Overwhelm-Inbox-to-Organised-Bliss-Bibek-s-Email-Management/ba-p/3082388

• Next, a well thought out team home page in Confluence can really make the difference in adoption and usage. Do you know how to build one? Yeah, I don’t either The good news is that @Namita Awasthi has given us the recipe for success in an easy to follow guide.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/New-to-Confluence-articles/The-Anatomy-of-a-High-Impact-Team-Homepage-in-Confluence/ba-p/3084260

• Speaking of having an impact on Confluence.  @Rajat Pratap Singh has shared how he’s using Confluence Liked Databases to map Dishes he prepares with a list of ingredients. The best part, this is just a relatable example that you can leverage for your next project at work.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-Databases-articles/Linking-Confluence-Databases-From-Dishes-to-Ingredients/ba-p/3086167

• One of the newest Atlassian Intelligence features to be released is Audio Briefings.  @Patricia Modispacher _k15t_ has done a great job in covering how they work including some best practices to get you started.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/New-to-Confluence-articles/Now-in-Labs-Audio-Briefings/ba-p/3090312

• Finally, The newest kid on the block is Rovo and everyone is talking about it.  @Laura Campbell has provided some great insights into her first attempt hat building some Rovo agents. If you are trying to figure out exactly how to make the most of Rovo, I’d encourage you to check this one out.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Rovo-articles/My-experience-building-Rovo-agents/ba-p/3083612

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• First up, we are talking more Rovo! I wasn’t sure where this one belonged so I decided we’d put it at the top of this section. Atlassian is starting a series of videos to help inspire you about the various ways you can use Rovo to make you more productive and efficient. Not only should you follow the series, be sure to check out this episode where Sven Peters shares the agent definition he uses to get caught up on every important conversation that has happened in Slack while he isn’t working in the evening and overnight.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-AI-Rovo-articles/Rovo-For-Me-quot-Using-Rovo-Agent-To-Start-Your-Day-quot-with/ba-p/3079523

• Next, Atlassian is adding new out of the box agents to Rovo to help you automate your tasks and to inspire your own creations. The workflow builder agent is designed to help admins use natural language to describe the process they are looking to implement and the agent will build the Jira workflow based on this information. This agent is still in beta but if you have started using Rovo, you might want to check it out.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Announcing-the-Workflow-Builder-Agent-Beta-in-the-New-Jira/ba-p/3084198

• Continuing with new agents Atlassian is providing out of the box, The meeting insights reporter works in conjunction with the Loom AI transcript functionality to provide you a summary of the important decisions and action items that came out of a meeting. This might be something you need to refer back to or because you missed the meeting while on vacation. Do you have additional questions? you can even ask the agent in Rovo chat for some additional context of the provided summary.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Introducing-our-new-Rovo-Teamwork-Agent-The-Meeting-Insights/ba-p/3082172

• Next up, the share button on a Confluence page now holds a list of requests to access the page content. This makes it easier for Page owners to see and easily approve requests to view their restricted content.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Content-access-requests-now-live-in-Share/ba-p/3083250

• Finally, Atlassian is merging the List and All Work views in Jira into a single view. There are taking the best parts of each view and putting them all into a single place to make it easier for you to do everything you want from a single location.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/We-re-merging-List-and-All-work-one-powerful-view-for-all-teams/ba-p/3090105

Trending discussions you should join:

Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-discussions/July-kable-Post-Series-Episode-III-Your-Most-Likeable-Places/td-p/3072630

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Data-Center-discussions/Data-Center-or-Cloud-What-s-Your-Long-Term-Plan/td-p/3083406

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Navigation-Refresh-discussions/This-new-UI-was-a-really-BAD-decision/td-p/3074303

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/Keeping-track-of-minor-changes-in-the-UI/td-p/3081941

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Watercooler-discussions/Feel-Good-Friday-Let-s-make-it-a-Stress-Awareness-Day/td-p/3076710

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Introducing-automation-rules-to-manage-incidents-via-Jira/ba-p/3085120

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Articles/Build-safer-smarter-integrations-with-service-accounts/ba-p/3084913

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/How-to-Install-Configure-and-Run-JEC-on-Windows-environment/ba-p/3082704

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Rovo-for-Software-Teams-Beta/How-Rovo-Dev-CLI-became-my-BFF/ba-p/3087704

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-AI-Rovo-articles/Smarter-Support-with-Rovo-Virtual-Service-Agents-in-Jira-Service/ba-p/3081947

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Amanda Barber]

Thanks, @Jimmy Seddon - great round up as always!

[Andy Gladstone]

Starting this month by catching up on last month! Thanks @Jimmy Seddon for the plethora of new tabs open in my browser!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Thanks, @Jimmy Seddon I was so busy with an "emergency" project last month that I missed a lot of things in the community. I really appreciate your round-up.