Glass 3.0.0

Glass Project Documentation & Information - 3.0.0 Release Notes

Released on 01 Apr 2021 , available from Atlassian Marketplace.

Released Features in 3.0.0

This is our biggest release so far!

• Released Features in 3.0.0

  • Completely Revamped User Experience

    • Introducing Glass Information Cards

    • Introducing Spotlight

    • Transition details became much prettier

    • Exporting to Confluence became much easier

  • Workflow images in export

  • Browse Group Members in Glass

  • Added Glass Introduction menu

  • Translated to 8 languages

• Introducing Glass Documentation for Cloud CLOUD

  • Features available in the Cloud version

  • Limitation in the Cloud version compared to Server/Data Center

• Improvements

• Related Blog Posts

Completely Revamped User Experience

Glass has been completely rebuilt, improved the complete UI and user experience (changed AUI to Atlaskit)

General tab

Introducing Glass Information Cards

Added color-coded Information Cards to ensure quick overview of different type of project settings

Introducing Spotlight

Introduced Spotlight on first use to support new users

Welcome tutorial

Transition details became much prettier

The content is unchanged, but custom actions are highlighted in every row

Transition details

Exporting to Confluence became much easier

Added searchable drop-downs to Confluence Export to make sure you export to the right place

Confluence export screen

Workflow images in export

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Added workflow images to PDF & Confluence export on SERVER / DATA CENTER

Workflow images

Browse Group Members in Glass

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• On People tab groups can be opened and browsed

• Group members can be searched

Group Membership

Added Glass Introduction menu

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Added an educational menu where new users can easier learn basic Jira terms and find more content online

Glass Introduction menu

Translated to 8 languages

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From now, the following languages are natively supported:

• 🇩🇪 - Deutsch

• 🇺🇸/ 🇬🇧- English

• 🇪🇸- español

• 🇫🇷- français

• 🇭🇺- magyar

• 🇮🇹- italiano

• 🇵🇱- polski

• 🇷🇺- русский

Introducing Glass Documentation for Cloud CLOUD

Glass Documentation for Cloud is currently under Atlassian review, will be publicly available soon!

Glss for Cloud

Differences in Server/Data Center and Cloud

Glass Documentation for Cloud was built to have the same features as Server/Data Center vesion, but there are some differences because of Atlassian limitations and the nature of the different platforms.

Features available in the Cloud version

• Glass Introduction

• General

  • Basic Summary, Glass Overview

  • Schemes, Components, Versions

• Issue Types

  • Transitions with custom actions

  • Screens

• People

  • People, Browsable Groups, Project Roles

• Permissions

  • Matrix View, View by Actor, View by Permission

• Notifications

  • Matrix View, View by Actor, View by Permission

• Export Project Documentation as PDF

• Export Project Documentation to Confluence - CLOUD

  • OAuth Authenticaion per User

Limitation in the Cloud version compared to Server/Data Center

• Workflow images can not be shown, neither exported, but transitions are listed (Limitation by Atlassian)

• Conditions, Validators and Post Functions are not available in a readable format, but marked as Custom (Limitation by Atlassian)

Transitions on cloud

Improvements

• Added direct link to every page, you can now copy paste your exact location in Glass

• PDF and Confluence Export provide more content with Evaluation license, but also censoring texts randomly to avoid Evaluation abuse but exporting a better result

• PDF and Confluence Export does not include “Current User” anymore

• Inactive/Deleted users in the project are handled better from now

• Better visualization for Components and Default Assignee

Related Blog Posts

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Calculating ROI for Glass

Balázs Szakál posted on Apr 02, 2019

Introduction

Whenever you spend money on something, you should consider if its worth it or not. Especially when you spend your company’s money, this questions comes up regularly from your manager, or your manager’s manager. Why should you buy an extra App? Whats the Return Of Investment? Let’s walk through popular use cases, and calculate the price with and without Glass installed. Average click needed for Getting Information When you want to get some information, you want it fast.…

Why should you create Jira Project Documentations?

Balázs Szakál posted on Feb 22, 2019

Should you have a Jira Project Documentation? Why? How detailed should it be? How regular should you update it? Many questions pop up, let's try to invetigate the question from different perspectives. Administrator Perspective If you are a single Jira Administrator at your company, your knowledge about the Configurations on Jira Instance might be one of the most underrated treasure company-wide. Just think about the well-organized Project Schemes,…