This release is simply a compatibility release which updates the app for Jira 8.

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As you probably know, Better Excel Automation already supports Jira Data Center deployments (i.e. clustered Jira). To be precise, those are supported since app version 2.0.0 (released in Feb 2016).

In 2018, Atlassian re-launched its Data Center program and introduced new criteria for "Data Center readiness". This version is the official release for the revised Data Center Ready program.

New in this release

• Better Excel Automation is Data Center Ready (again)

This release is simply a compatibility release which updates the app for Jira 8.

See the full release notes →

As you probably know, Better Excel Automation already supports Jira Data Center deployments (i.e. clustered Jira). To be precise, those are supported since app version 2.0.0 (released in Feb 2016).

In 2018, Atlassian re-launched its Data Center program and introduced new criteria for "Data Center readiness". This version is the official release for the revised Data Center Ready program.

New in this release

• Better Excel Automation is Data Center Ready (again)

Improvements

• Previous app versions only provided single-line input controls for the "To" and "Email body" fields of "Send Excel" action. Now resizable multi-line controls are available.

Bye-bye "Excel Automation Plugin for Jira"! Hello "Better Excel Automation for Jira"!

In addition to some cosmetic changes, with this version we made a slight adjustment in the app's name due to the following reasons:

• The new name is better aligned with the app's name which it automates ("Better Excel Exporter for Jira", also renamed recently).
• The term "plugin" was replaced by Atlassian first with "add-on" and then with "app". We decided to get rid of this completely.

You may still see the old name popping up here and there, until we roll out the change everywhere. Thanks for the patience!

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Action configuration interface is displayed as a key-value pair editor with modern Automation or Automation Lite versions

Bugfixes

• Fixed: When passing an empty issue list, XlsApi writes a warning to the log

Code Barrel took over the old Automation Plugin for Jira from Atlassian in March 2017 and renamed it to Automation Lite for Jira. Its latest release 3.0.0 is built from their next generation codebase, which is the same codebase that is the foundation of Code Barrel's paid automation add-on called Automation for Jira.

Excel Automation Plugin for Jira supports both the old Automation Lite codebase and the new one, but you must be careful about the versions.

• If you use Automation Lite for Jira 3.0.0 or newer: use Excel Automation Plugin for Jira 3.0.0 (upgrade to this release!)
• If you use Automation for Jira 3.0.0 or newer: use Excel Automation Plugin for Jira 3.0.0 (upgrade to this release!)
• If you use Automation Lite for Jira pre-3.0.0: use Excel Automation Plugin for Jira 2.1.0 (do *not* upgrade to this release!)

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Emails created by the "Send Excel" action are sent even if emailing is disabled globally

Improvements

• JQL Filter Trigger based automation rules with JQL like "filter = 10100" or "filter = 'Pending Quotes'" automatically use the column configuration of the referenced saved filter! (it also requires Better Excel Plugin 2.4.0+)
• Automation action configuration parameters support new template variables (related to the enclosing automation rule)
• Excel renderer receives new model variables (related to the enclosing automation rule)
• "Save Excel" action automatically creates the missing parent directories for the Excel file (if necessary)

Bugfixes

• Fixed: "Attach Excel" creates issue attachments with the XLSX MIME type even if the template is XLSM or XLS
• Fixed: "Send Excel" creates email attachments with the XLSX MIME type even if the template is XLSM or XLS

Notable changes

• New intro video embedded in the Getting Started page: Excel Automation Plugin for Jira - Introduction in 6 minutes

New action: "Attach Excel"

This new automation action allows generating Excel spreadsheets periodically or by triggered by issue events (created, updated, transitioned, work logged, etc.) and then attaching the resulted file to a Jira issue. The target issue can be the one which triggered the automation, or another one selected by a JQL query!

Support for Data Center

This realease fully supports Jira Data Center, enabling automation in clustered Jira deployments.

More robust installation

Previous add-on versions may have had class-loading issues right after installation or version update. This release comes with rewamped OSGi dependency management, to prevent those issues.

This is a compatibility release for Jira 7, also maintaining compatibility with the Jira 6 line.

Just some days after releasing the stable version of Better Excel Plugin for Jira, the automation solution that integrates it to your business workflows is finally available!