Link JIRA issue created in Confluence directly to the text on the page that created it.

[Tom Earley]

We are just starting to use Confluence. We have a sandbox area setup we are using to evaluate how it works with JIRA.

Currently when we create JIRA issues from confluence, the tag is added to the end of the text used to create it. If I then go to JIRA and open the issue, then clink on the link, I am taken to the correct Page, but taken to the top of the pate. I have to then manually search the page to find the tag that created it. 

Is there a way to have the JIRA link take us directly to the Page and it's tag in confluence?

Thanks in advance!

Tom

[Danny]

Hello @Tom Earley

Is this still an issue for you or were you able to find a solution?

After looking into this myself I was able to find a workaround though it would mean increased admin work to get this to work from Jira to Confluence:

Atlassian Team suggested solution

The recent update to the solution by Philip Molaro:

"manually putting links in the description, but it would be super nice if the auto-link would either auto anchor to the first instance of the ticket number on the page"

I completely agree with his sentiment, it would be nice if the Jira Issues macro were able to do this out of the box without manual intervention. 

Another Atlassian Team suggested solution, this would still be the same amount of manual work.

There is a suggested improvement on the jira.atlassian backlog. I would suggest voting for this improvement.

The suggested improvement though is in regards to Anchor syntax, not the Jira Issue Macro, I would suggest contacting Atlassian and submitting an improvement that would achieve Philip Molaro's and your requirements.

Hope this helps,

Danny