Linking Jira 5.1 issue to Confluence 3.5.16 page

[Sam Hall]

I have sucessfully set up Application Link between Jira and Confluence, now I'm testing to see what bonus features that gives me in Jira. I've attempted to link a task to a wiki page, but the GUI can't find any pages or even spaces for that matter...

I'm logged in as an account with full system admin access to both systems, I noticed that I needed this level of access to link this project with my wiki space, which is a little disappointing.

I can link to the page using the URL instead I'm just wondering if I lost any special features. What the benefits of linking spaces to projects and tasks to pages?

[Harry Chan · Accepted solution]

Hi, unfortunately this feature of linking to Confluence pages from JIRA 5.x is only available if you are using Confluence 4.x and above. We've tested this ourselves and bumped into a similar problem.

The benefit in this case is that you get to search for the pages you need whilst linking.

[Sam Hall]

Thanks, do you know of any other features that become available when linking a wiki page to a task or a space to a project? This may help my case to upgrade Confluence.

[Harry Chan]

Here is the full blog post that explains all the features with linking between JIRA 5.x and Confluence 4.x http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/link-jira-issues-to-confluence-pages-automatically/. See if this helps you decide.