Limit on description text of an embedded Jira item

[martin]

When I embed a Jira issue by pasting its URL on a Confluence page, I can select it to show as a card which it great!

The card shows the issue title, description and some other properties are shown. Just what I need.

The description of the Jira item is unfortunately truncated - is there a way to show the full description if the item in Confluence?

[Armin Meyer _Seibert - Coderay_]

Hi@martin ,

if adding the Jira field into the Confluence page is part of a recurring process, like "create a documentation page when a issue of the type 'project' is created", then an automation solution can do the job for you and insert the full Jira field value.

You can either use the built-in Jira Automation for the one time creation of a page and use smart values to add Jira issue field content into the page body. Here is a link to another discussion with a how to set it up.

If you want a permanent sync of Jira and Confluence you can also take a look at our app Autopage in the Marketplace. It's free to try and is designed exactly for integrating Jira and Confluence. Accomplish work in Jira and get structured doucumentation in Confluence.

Cheers

Armin

[martin]

Hi @Armin Meyer _Seibert - Coderay_,

My ultimate need is a two-way integration between Confluence & Jira so that can use Jira and Confluence o.a. for requirements management in following way:

- The requirements and their properties, hierarchy and traceability managed in Jira

- Human readable specification pages in Confluence, where the jira items (and their attributes) can be embedded.

- ultimately, I would like to be able to edit the embedded items from within Confluence.

(Just like its done by Polarion Requirements).

[Armin Meyer _Seibert - Coderay_]

Hi @martin ,

a bi-directional sync or kind of cross-editing would be nice but I am not aware of a solution covering this.

But the new Confluence preview in Jira is amazing. Combined with the Jira Legacy Macro (mentioned by @Jessica ), if you just searching for a tabular content view, or Autopage for a more advanced content styling, I could imagine it is close to your need. 

The new navigation is from todays perspective not rolled out in each cloud instance. To give you an impression a created an animated GIF for you:

cheers,

Armin

[Jessica]

Hi @martin 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Currently there are no options to display the full description or increase the characters there in the CARD option, but there is the button "Open Preview" that would open the jira issue in something similar as a "pop-up" that allows you to see more details there, including the full description of the jira issue.

I understand that you would like to have an option to expand the description only, so I have created the following feature request:

• Ability to increase or configure the smart link "card" option description 

I hope this also helps, Martin!

Cheers,
Jessica

[martin]

Hi @Jessica,

Thanks for creating the feature request.

To suggest an alternative feature: the ability to insert (or embed) a specific Jira item field into a confluence page, like the description of an item.

This would further increase integration between Jira & Confluence and enable functionalities like offered in Polarion.

[Jessica]

Thanks for the suggestion, @martin 

I have tried something with the "Jira Legacy" macro instead that might be helpful for you use case, if the necessary would be to display the description entirely, and the issue key only.

For example, you can insert the /jiralegacy macro in your page and paste the issuekey on the macro.

Once the macro finds your jira issue, you can choose the "table" option and chose which columns you want to display in the jira legacy macro table:

Once you hit insert, that will display the issue key and the description. 
In my test I had a long description, but it displayed it entirely there. Please create a new test page and give it a try to see if would be something similar to what you are looking for. :)
This might be helpful on your use case!