Customize the look and feel of JIRA and Confluence

[Cheyenne Bryant]

With JIRA On Demand, there is a tab at the top to quickly navigate from JIRA to Confluence and back again. Now that we are using the download version, there does not appear to be a way to even modify the nav links to add in a link to Confluence/JIRA.

How can I modify the top nav of JIRA (where it has "Dashboards", "Projects", etc.) to add a link to our Confluence instance?

Our applications are already linked, so when a JIRA ticket is mentioned in Confluence, the link does appear in the ticket itself. The request I have is more overreaching in that you can nav back and forth no matter what screen you are on because it's part of the overall theme or look/feel.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You need a plugin for this. Adding a link is pretty simple because you can do it via a web-item plugin module and no java files needed for this.

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Item+Plugin+Module

[Cheyenne Bryant]

I read through the documentation, and though it will do what I need -- I'm not a developer :( Is there any other way than developing a new JIRA plugin and applying it to the server? I'm afraid I might break something.

[Matheus Fernandes]

In the latest releases of the Atlassian Suite, this is done automatically if you have an application link, or you can manually add links, seeCreating Links in the Application Navigator.

[Paulie Rainbow]

This is important as JIRA is frequently managed by (non-developer) Test Managers.