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QualityNet Atlassian is collaboration and planning software available to CMS, CMS contractors, and CMS stakeholders. The Atlassian Suite includes the following tools:

• Jira: An Agile and software development work management system which provides the ability for individuals and teams to create and manage tasks.
• Confluence: A group collaboration and content management tool that provides content spaces with blog and repository functionality.

Currently, all CMS staff, and pre-authorized CMS contractors are approved for access by the CMS QualityNet Atlassian Product Manager, Erin.Wolfe@cms.hhs.gov. To request new contracts to access QualityNet Atlassian your CMS representative should contact the Product Owner by email.

For instructions on how to register for a HARP account, visit the HARP page.

Register for a HARP ID. Once the HARP account has been created, log into HARP and submit a user role request.

1. Log into your HARP account at https://harp.qualitynet.org.
2. Click on User Roles in the upper right hand corner of the page, and select Request Role.
3. In step 1 (Select a Program), select QualityNet Atlassian. Click Next.
4. In step 2 (Select an Organization), select your organization. Click Next.
5. In step 3 (Select Roles), select the Standard Atlassian User role. (If you are your organization's designated security official, select the Account Administrator SO role.) Click Submit.

You will receive an email that your request has been submitted. Once your organization's security official has approved the request, you will receive an approval email. After you have been approved, visit Confluence or Jira, enter your HARP credentials, and click Login with HARP.

There are two QualityNet Atlassian User Roles. The majority of users will request the Standard Atlassian User role, but a description of all roles is below:

• Account Administrator SO: This is the role for designated Security Officials for each organization, who are responsible for approving Standard Atlassian User role requests. Request this role only if you have been designated as a Security Official.
• Standard Atlassian User: This is the role for general QualityNet Atlassian users. This role will allow you to access QualityNet Jira and Confluence.

Log into Jira at https://qnetjira.cms.gov using your HARP credentials.

Log into Confluence at https://qnetconfluence.cms.gov using your HARP credentials.

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Log into your Okta portal at http://idm.cms.gov and click on the Jira or Confluence tiles.

You will be automatically logged out of Jira and Confluence after a two hour period of inactivity. Your activity in Jira and Confluence is logged separately. For example, you log into the Okta portal (hhtp://idm.cms.gov/) and click the Jira tile to start working in Jira, You then hop over to Confluence to read a notification, and then return to continue working in Jira for over two hours, during which time you have not been active in Confluence. Since you have not been active in Confluence during this time, despite being active in Jira, you will be required to re-authenticate if you want to continue work in Confluence. The same is true for the opposite - if you log into both Confluence and Jira, but are only active in Confluence for two hours, you will need to re-authenticate to access Jira.

If your account has been deactivated and you would like to resume using it, please navigate to https://harp.qualitynet.org/ to re-request the QualityNet Atlassian Entitlement.

Instructions for re-requesting: https://qnetconfluence.cms.gov/display/HS/QualityNet+Atlassian#GettingStarted

Any accounts that have not logged into either QualityNet Jira or Confluence in the last 60 or more consecutive days will have their QualityNet Atlassian Entitlement revoked. Please remember to log in on a regular basis if you would like to retain access to your Atlassian account.

Confluence add-ons can be found by selecting the "Insert more content" icon in the toolbar when editing a Confluence page. Select a macro from the list of suggestions, or select "Other macros" at the bottom to view a list of all available macros and add-ons.

Note: The Page Views add-on listed below is not visible in the macro list. Once Page Views has been requested and enabled for your Atlassian account, you will automatically have access to its functionality.

Content Formatting Macros: This suite of over 30 easy-to-use Confluence macros gives you the ability to create better, more engaging content.

Elements Spreadsheet: With Elements Spreadsheet, you can create dynamic tables in Confluence pages with formulas, filters, and drop-down lists for your data.

Page Views: The Page Views add-on provides additional options to analyze who is visiting your spaces and pages. Using this add-on, you can see a list of what users visited your space pages and when, as well as any attachments they viewed, and if they made any contributions such as updating or commenting on a page. Page Views also creates a simple graph of visits and changes so you can view this information at a glance. This add-on is available to users by request only.

Scroll ImageMap: Scroll ImageMap makes static Confluence images interactive by letting users add multiple clickable regions within them. These regions support mouseover tooltips and can connect readers to Confluence content or external URLs.  

Smart Questions & Answers: Smart Questions and Answers (Q&A) is a Confluence add-on that brings questions and answers functionality to Confluence. This discussion forum capability enhances options for collaboration across the HCQIS Community by allowing users to post questions on specific topics and then providing anyone with access to that page ability to contribute an answer. The add-on is based on existing Confluence features: child-pages under a “topic” page serve as questions, and comments are “upgraded” to answers.

Advanced Roadmaps: Advanced Roadmaps for Jira (formerly Portfolio for Jira) helps you build a plan, see the big picture, track progress, and easily share with stakeholders. The QualityNet Atlassian Support Team built the plans currently displayed in Advanced Roadmaps.

AM Utils: Automate your daily operations by using additional conditions, validators, post-functions, and JQL functions.

Checklist: Checklist for Jira can help you simplify your workflow in Jira by allowing you to track what is important to you without resorting to Jira’s subtasks. For example, this add-on is ideal for Definition of Done, Acceptance Criteria, or any To Do list.

Configuration Manager: Automate the promotion of configuration changes between Test, Staging, and Production environments. See how different changes will impact other projects and control whether to go through or modify them on the fly.

eazyBI Reports and Charts: eazyBI is an application that takes data from Jira and can be used to display, create reports, model data, etc. beyond the normal capabilities of Jira. eazyBI also introduces two new macros to Confluence - eazyBI dashboard and eazyBI report. These macros will allow you to integrate dashboards and reports in Confluence that you have created in eazyBI using data from Jira.

Jira Misc Custom Fields: Display information based on COMPUTED VALUES - help Jira users stay on top of projects with JMCF’s calculated custom fields.

Power Custom Fields: Power Custom Fields® for Jira offers flexible, configurable custom fields to easily import and integrate external data in Jira. Organize data collection and control field formatting.

Power Scripts: We created Simple Issue Language® (SIL®) exclusively for Jira scripting. Scripts can be written by administrators with little programming experience right in Jira - SIL® Manager. You can store your scripts and reuse them for other projects and tasks. And the best part is once you wrote them - they just work! SIL scripts are portable across Jira versions and won't break once you upgrade your Jira.

TestrailTestRail: The TestRail add-on for Test Rail integration has been installed in Production. This add-on allows testers to manage their test results and scenarios within Jira tickets. TestRail is maintained by the HCQIS Supplemental Testing contractor. If you have any questions related to TestRail please reach out to the #help-testrail Slack channel.

Workflow Enhancer: Enhances the workflow validators, conditions and post functions in Jira, allowing a wide range of comparisons with field values.