Troubleshooting common issues related to knowledge base integration between Jira Service Management and Confluence
プラットフォームについて: サーバーと Data Center のみ。この記事は、サーバーおよび Data Center プラットフォームのアトラシアン製品にのみ適用されます。
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 page The 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:
- Documentation about integrating Jira Service Management with Confluence Server / Data Center
- Documentation about integrating Jira Service Management with Confluence Cloud
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 issue | Relevant 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:
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 issue | Relevant 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 UI | Knowledge 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 UI | Knowledge 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 article | Users 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 | |
On the customer portal view, the iframe wraps text incorrectly making it unreadable | |
On the customer portal view, the table content of a KB article gets wrapped incorrectly |
Issues related to the "Related knowledge articles" panel in the agent view of a request
"How to" knowledge articles
Type of issue | Relevant KB articles / Bug reports |
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Locating Jira Service Management's Knowledge Base search statistics through the database | Locating Jira Service Management's Knowledge Base search statistics through the database |
How to view global KB usage in Jira Service Management | How 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: