The Obie team is starting 2021 off strong with lots of feature improvements, new search integrations and some bug fixes!
Here’s what’s new for you in January…
Jira search integration
- Obie can now return Jira issues/tickets in search results for visibility into known and resolved issues

*New* Jira supported field types
- Obie now supports the following Jira field types:
- User Picker (Single User)
- Select List (Cascading)
Confluence Previews
- Obie can now unfurl more content and meta data from Confluence in Slack
- Contact us to turn this feature on

“Ask a Channel” available for private channels
- When prompting Obie to “Ask a Channel” users can have Obie ask in a 🔒private channel to crowdsource a response
Browser extension updates
- Training mode is now supported in the browser extension for our teams not tied to Slack (for Obie admins)

- Browser extension search history autocomplete
Bug fixes:
- When in training mode, “Add to thread” was sometimes sharing the wrong result [RESOLVED]
- Jira attachment uploads not translating properly in Slack [RESOLVED]
- Jira Software ticket “priority” status not updating in Slack [RESOLVED]
- Obie browser extension: highlighting text to add a new FAQ from the context menu not working [RESOLVED]