Auto Update of links in Confluence when changes are made in Jira

[Sushma S N]

Hi Team,

I have a page in confluence which has hyperlinks to projects in Jira. After few sprints the project name changes and as a result the links in confluence has to be changed manually. Is there a way to automatically update when changed in Jira.

[Dominic Lagger]

Hi,

• Do you use the JIRA macro from Confluence?
• Is it a list of JIRA items or just one item? 
  • If it is a list, then sometimes you don't have to refresh the whole site, just refresh the JIRA table in Confluence.

[Sushma S N]

Hi Dominic,

Thank you for the quick response. We are not using JIRA macro from Confluence. We are using hyperlinks. Will using JIRA macro solve the problem by updating automatically? Is it a add on available with Confluence by default or is it something that needs to be installed?

For the second part it is a table of multiple links but it would not update automatically if changes are made to projects in JIRA.

[Dominic Lagger]

I highly recommend you to use to JIRA macro. To do so, you just have to connect the applications with each other --> Linking to Another Application

Then the rest is described here: Jira Issues Macro

What you can do with the Jira Issues macro
Using the Jira Issues macro, you can:

• Display a list of issues on your page, based on a JIRA Query Language (JQL) search, filter or URL.
• Display a single issue.
• Display a count of issues.
• Create new issues and display the issues on your page without leaving Confluence.

[Sushma S N]

Hi Dominic,

I am assuming this will work for hyperlinks to issue type schemes, permission schemes as well right?

[Dominic Lagger]

Hi @Sushma S N 

The Jira Issue Macro just helps you with issues. The linking process with Issues Jira <-> Confluence is fantastic.

You could also do nice diagramms with those issues. 

Unfortunately, the linking is just for issues and not for schemes, dashboards or something like that

[Sushma S N]

Are there any approaches to accomplish this?