Please refer to the guide to Installing Confluence and JIRA Together.

JIRA and Confluence are designed to complement each other. Collect your team's thoughts, plans and knowledge in Confluence, track your issues in JIRA, and let the two applications work together to help you get your job done.

Below are some ways you can get JIRA and Confluence working together.

Setting Up Trusted Communication between JIRA and Confluence

An administrator can configure JIRA (3.12.0 or later) and Confluence to communicate in a trusted way, so that Confluence can request information from JIRA on behalf of the currently logged-in user. JIRA will not ask the user to log in again or to supply a password.

Trusted communication is used when embedding information from one application (for example, a list of JIRA issues) into another application (for example, a Confluence page).

Read more about trusted communication.

Inserting JIRA issues

You can insert issues from a JIRA site onto your Confluence page using the 'Insert JIRA Issue' dialogue box. You can also use this dialogue box to create a new issue on the JIRA site. See Inserting JIRA Issues.

Combining Confluence Shortcuts and JIRA Quick Search

In our Confluence site's global configuration (Administration > Shorcut Links) we have the following shortcut defined:

JIRA: http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=

Use the above option to create links using Confluence's shortcut notation.

  • Link directly to JIRA issues like this: CONF-1000
  • Use JIRA's quick-search functionality to create links to particular groups of issues. The following link will display a list of all open issues in the Confluence project of type 'Improvement': CONF open improvements.

(warning) The information on this page does not apply to Confluence OnDemand.

Screenshot: Configuring shortcuts


Viewing Confluence Content in JIRA or JIRA Content in Confluence

Using Gadgets

You can embed a Confluence activity stream or a Confluence page in JIRA's dashboard. Likewise, JIRA gadgets can be rendered on a Confluence page. See Adding a Confluence Gadget to a JIRA Dashboard and Gadget Macro for information on how to set up gadgets.

Using the JIRA Issues macro

For versions earlier than Confluence 3.1 and JIRA 4.0, use the {jiraissues} macros to embed JIRA reports and portlets into your Confluence site

Any JIRA search result can be embedded in a Confluence page using the JIRA Issues macro with your choice of included fields and field ordering, and any JIRA gadgets can be embedded in a Confluence page by Registering External Gadgets.

Integrating JIRA and Confluence User Management

To save you having to enter users into both JIRA and Confluence, you may benefit from using Atlassian Crowd as the user repository for both applications. Alternatively you can configure Confluence to use JIRA's user database. See Connecting to Crowd or JIRA for User Management.

Useful Plugins

Before installing an add-on (also called a plugin) into your Confluence site, please check the add-on's information page to see whether it is supported by Atlassian, by another vendor, or not at all. See our guidelines on add-on support.

The JIRA Linker plugin provides a custom field that helps you find an URL, particularly a Confluence page, so you can add a page link into a JIRA issue.