Add Jira events
Jira events enable you to visualize versions, work items or sprint dates from Jira apps. To use this feature, you must have Confluence and your Jira apps set up with a secure connection between them. See Install Team Calendars.
Add Jira events
When you create an event, there are multiple Jira event types you can choose from. These are:
Jira work item dates – Embed a single Jira work item date or the duration between any two work item dates. For example, embed due dates for Jira work items, or, if you have custom fields, embed a scheduled deployment date.
What if you want to see the duration for a particular work item? You may have fields like 'Deployment Start Date' and 'Deployment End Date' or 'Work Item Start' and 'Work Item End Date'. Team Calendars allows you to visualize the duration between any two dates.
Jira Sprints – If your team is using Jira to plan their work, you can also embed your Sprints inside your Team Calendar. This helps you see the duration of your sprint and how your team's availability or other team events could impact the sprint.
Jira Space Releases – Jira versions help you define a release for your projects. You can embed and visualize your Jira space versions to see how your releases are progressing.
Update Jira events in Team Calendars
From Team Calendars, you can:
Update Jira space version dates
Update work item dates
Drag-and-drop the event or update its date, and it will automatically update in your Jira application. Currently, you can't update your Jira sprint dates.
Add Jira work item dates
You can embed virtually any work item date in Team Calendars from your Jira application. Embed Jira work item dates as:
A single date
A duration between two specified dates
When adding Jira work item dates, you'll be presented with the following display options:
Space – A quick and easy way to map out work items on a calendar
Saved filter – For more advanced filtering as well as support for multiple spaces.
JQL – Power users can use JQL to create a Jira calendar.
If you select Saved filter or JQL, Team Calendars will render all available date fields that are available for all spaces selected in your filter. If there are dates that are only available to one space, and not another in the filter, they will not render in the list of possible fields to show.
Upon selecting a Space, Saved Filter or JQL, you'll be presented with all possible dates that can be rendered in Team Calendars. For those of you with Jira, Team Calendars can also embed your Jira sprint durations right on your Jira Calendars.
Once the calendar is created, depending on what you've selected, you can see:
Work item dates
Jira space version due dates
Jira sprint durations
You can't add content to Jira calendars as they source all of their date information from the Jira system. To add work items and version deadlines, add them in the JIRA application's interface.
You can drag-and-drop your Jira work item dates and space versions to re-schedule them right from Team Calendars.
When you create a Jira calendar, all users in your system can see the calendar name in Confluence. The actual calendar events (work items, versions, sprints), however, automatically respect your Jira application permissions, so it's possible for users to be subscribed to a Jira calendar and not see all events.
Next steps
Subscribe to and from Team Calendars from other calendars.
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