Jira & Confluence – Chapter 13

While Jira enables teams to adopt and practice agile principles, it also integrates with other tools to provide end to end traceability. We did talk about some integrations in Chapter 1; and in this chapter we will explore the integration between Jira and Confluence.

Atlassian Confluence is a tool for knowledge management and when integrated with Jira, it helps cross team collaboration; providing a single pane for reporting project status. Let us get started with the simple steps to integrates these two tools.

Step 1 -> Login into Confluence with your credentials and access the “General Configuration” option from the Settings icon on top right corner as shown below-

Step 2 -> Now select the “Administration” link and open “Application Links” as shown below-

Step 3 -> Mention the Jira URL so that the integration is setup with Jira and click on CREATE NEW LINK and confirm the URL.

Step 4 -> Once the link is setup, review the settings as shown below-

Step 5 -> Lets now create a Confluence page that displays information from Jira. Click on the CREATE SPACE link fro the Spaces menu as shown below-

Give a name to this new space, lets give it a name TRIAL-PROJECT1 and click on the CREATE button.

Step 6 -> Once a space is created, we will create a report page. Click on the CREATE button on the panel and start drafting the new page-

Step 7 -> Give a heading to the page and click on the “+” symbol to insert Jira field as shown below-

Step 8 -> Now mention the filter name that is created in Jira, for example we have a query named “timesheet”; mention the same as shown below and click on the INSERT button.

Step 9 -> View the Jira Filter results on the Confluence page.

Wasn’t that simple? You can also insert Jira Charts on the Confluence page.

Try out various options and setup a Confluence page that becomes a placeholder to check for project status by Business and IT teams 🙂

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