BigTemplate

Template management
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Inspiration

In JIRA, there is only a single pre-determined export document style that also looks rather unattractive and is very hard to edit.

What it does

BigTemplate lets you upload and assign different document styles to make JIRA issues easily adaptable into different internal needs of an end-user company Users can define their own document templates and assign them to tasks in different projects.

How we built it

It's built for both JIRA Server and Cloud with the latest and greatest technologies.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was developing a Cloud version right after the Server one. However, we managed to produce a code that has 90% re-usability between the 2 editions, something we are very proud of.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

After 4 months, BigTemplate already has nearly 150 active installations: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/softwareplant.bigtemplate/server/versionhistory and this is just on Server (Cloud version is being accepted now).

From the technical point of view:

Multi-tenancy architecture and cache - multiple clients can work on 1 instance in a sandbox Single Page Application from Java Web Token Webpack to increase performance Frontend and backend instead of migrating everything to Javascript New tech all across the board - Angular2, Typescript, and much more.

What's next

We plan to make a curated directory of templates that users can easily use to save them even more time. These will be suited to different processes. Other plans include an import option, exporting issues in bulk and advanced template-project mapping.