I received a question this month, asking how to link from JIRA to a Confluence page. I've been thinking about doing exactly this, so that we can keep Specification documents in Confluence, and then link to them from a JIRA issue. Here's what I found.
Looking through the Atlassian documentation, I discovered a plugin called the JIRA Linker, which lets you create a custom field and a Search button, so that you can search for a Confluence page and link to it.
[Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3]
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At the moment I have a Confluence wiki installed on my desktop. Next we want to install Confluence on a server to test the integration of the wiki with our Umbraco website and LDAP security.
So that we can demo Confluence to others in the group quickly, I need to copy a Space from my local instance of Confluence into the new instance on the server. I've searched the Confluence documentation, and it looks like I need to export the space as a zipped XML archive, and then import the xml archive ...
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Integrating Confluence and JIRA (part 2)
Last time, I left off at the point of displaying JIRA issues on a Confluence page. I'd found a way to insert single issues.
But I want to display a list of all the issues going into the release. The Atlassian documentation says to use the JIRA Issues macro, so that's what I'll try.
[Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3]
1. Create a search in JIRA for the issues you want to display
In JIRA, click Issues to open the Issues Navigator.
On the Summary tab, click Create new.
In the panel, select yo...
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