Troubleshooting common issues related to knowledge base integration between Jira Service Management and Confluence

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要約

Jira Service Management Server/Data Center can be configured to serve customers with a knowledge base (KB) accessible from the Customer portal with:

  • either Confluence Server/Data Center (for Service Management versions 3.x and above)
  • or Confluence Cloud (for Service Management version 4.12.0 and above)

After connecting Service Management to Confluence and setting up a knowledge base in a project in Project Settings > Knowledge base and when everything goes well, customers will be able:

  • to search for Confluence articles from the Customer Portal in various locations:

    The Help Center home pageThe individual portals The request creation form





  • and view the KB article from an iFrame:


This page lists all the most common issues related to this integration and the relevant knowledge base articles that will help you troubleshoot them.

Before you take a look at the KB articles listed on this page, please make sure that you followed carefully the instructions in our official documentation:

Issues related to the configuration of the KB integration between Jira Service Management and Confluence

To integrate Jira Service Management with Confluence, it is necessary to:

  • Configure integration with Confluence:
    • By setting an application link in Jira > ⚙ > Applications > Application Links, in case of Confluence Server/Data Center
    • By setting a Confluence Cloud integration in Jira > ⚙ > Applications > Confluence Cloud integration, in case of Confluence Cloud
  • Configure a KB space in Service Management projects via the page Project Settings > Knowledge base

If you face any issues during this configuration, then one of the KB articles below might be relevant:

Type of issueRelevant KB articles / Bug reports
Issue configuring an application linkアプリケーション リンクのトラブルシューティング ガイド
Issue configuring a knowledge space in a Service Management project

Error when trying to configure a knowledge base in a Service Management project


Issues related to the KB search on the Customer Portal

If you face any kind of search issue from the Jira Service Management customer portal, then one of the KB articles below might be relevant:

Type of issueRelevant KB articles / Bug reports

The KB search fails for any Jira user, and in all locations:

  • ヘルプセンター
  • Project specific portals
  • Request creation form 

The knowledge base search does not return any result from the Customer Portal for any user

The KB search fails for specific Jira users only, and in all locations:

  • ヘルプセンター
  • Project specific portals
  • Request creation form 
The knowledge base search does not return any result from the Customer Portal for specific users only
The KB search fails from the Help Center but works from Project specific portalsThe knowledge base search does not work on the Service Management Help Center while it works on project specific portals
The KB search bar is missingThe Knowledge base search bar is missing from the Service Management Customer Portal
The KB search fails for non-Latin wordsUnable to search knowledge articles for non-latin words in the Customer Portal
The KB search fails when using the colon characterUnable to search knowledge base articles containing a colon character in the Service Management Customer Portal

Issues related to viewing/opening a KB article from the Customer Portal

If you face any issues while trying to open a KB article from the Customer Portal (the page is empty, an error is thrown, the user has to log into Confluence, etc...), then one of the KB articles below might be relevant:

Type of issueRelevant KB articles / Bug reports
The KB article is empty without any error in the UI (but an error is shown in the Browser Console)
The error "The knowledge base article could not be found" is shown in the UIKnowledge Base articles fail to open in Jira Service Management with the error "The knowledge base article could not be found"
The error "The Service Desk you are trying to view does not exist" is shown in the UIKnowledge Base articles fail to open from the request form in Jira Service Management with the error "The Service Desk you are trying to view does not exist"
The user is required to log into Confluence from the iFrame to view the KB articleUsers are required to log into Confluence to be able to view knowledge base articles from the Customer Portal
On the customer portal view, the images attached to the knowledge base articles are not loaded/rendered
On the agent view, the KB article is displayed with very large top and bottom spacing

JSDSERVER-11298 - 課題情報を取得中... ステータス

On the customer portal view, the iframe wraps text incorrectly making it unreadable

JSDSERVER-11284 - 課題情報を取得中... ステータス

On the customer portal view, the table content of a KB article gets wrapped incorrectly

JSDSERVER-12328 - 課題情報を取得中... ステータス

Issues related to the "Related knowledge articles" panel in the agent view of a request

Type of issueRelevant KB articles / Bug reports
Error "You don't have access to view or create knowledge base article"The error "You don't have access to view or create knowledge base article" is thrown in the "related knowledge page articles" panel
The Error "We're having trouble communicating with the application. Wait a minute" is thrown when trying to create a KB articleThe error "We're having trouble communicating with the application" is thrown when trying to create a knowledge base article from a Jira Service Management ticket
Issue sharing KB articles from the agent viewIn Jira Service Management, Knowledge Base Articles have a red padlock for certain users and cannot be shared
The "Related knowledge base articles" panel throws an error in the agent view of a requestError "Failed to send request to the knowledge base server."
The "Related knowledge base articles" panel shows an exclamation mark without any errorThe Related Knowledge base articles panel shows a red exclamation mark without any error
The "Related knowledge base articles" panel throws the error "We're having trouble communicating with the application" in the agent view of a requestThe error "We're having trouble communicating with the application" is thrown in the "related knowledge page articles" panel

"How to" knowledge articles

Type of issueRelevant KB articles / Bug reports
Locating Jira Service Management's Knowledge Base search statistics through the databaseLocating Jira Service Management's Knowledge Base search statistics through the database
How to view global KB usage in Jira Service ManagementHow to view global KB usage in Jira Service Management

Known bugs related to the knowledge base integration

For the list of known bugs related to the knowledge base integration, you can check this filter from our public issue tracker.

アトラシアン サポートにデータを提供する

If none of the articles on bugs listed above helped resolve the issue you are facing, please reach out to Atlassian Support via this link. To help the Atlassian support team investigate the issue faster, you can follow the steps below and attach all the collected data to the support ticket raised with Atlassian:

Data to provide to support
  1. Jira 内
    1. If Jira is integrated with Confluence Server
      1. Navigate to ⚙ > Applications > Application Links
      2. Click on the pencil icon next to the Confluence Server instance
      3. Take a full screenshot
    2. If Jira is integrated with Confluence Cloud
      1. Navigate to ⚙ > Applications > Confluence Cloud Integration
      2. Take a full screenshot
    3. Save a HAR file, Browser Console output and take a screenshot while replicating the issue
    4. Generate a support zip
  2. In Confluence (if using Confluence Server)
    1. Navigate to ⚙ > General Configuration > Application Links
      1. Click on the pencil icon next to the Jira server instance
      2. Take a full screenshot
    2. Generate a support zip 
  3. サポート チケットに次の内容を添付
    1. All the screenshots
    2. The HAR and Browser Console file
    3. The support zip from Jira and Confluence



最終更新日 2023 年 4 月 17 日

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