Error rendering Product Plan Macro in Confluence

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Summary

After adding the Product Plan macro to a Confluence page, the macro won't work. Instead, the macro will show the following message:

Error rendering macro 'portfolio-for-jira-plan'

com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseStatusException: Unexpected response received. Status code: 503

Environment

  • Application link set between Confluence and Jira using DUO

Diagnosis

  • The atlassian-confluence.log will show:

    1 2 2020-09-03 06:23:35,729 WARN [https-jsse-nio-443-exec-86] [xhtml.view.macro.ViewMacroMarshaller] handleMacroExecutionException Exception executing macro: portfolio-for-jira-plan, with message: The link doesn't exist or you don't have permission to access it -- url: /pages/viewpage.action | page: 15325298 | traceId: c6b92dc58c2f2ff1 | userName: myuser | referer: https://confluence.example.com/plugins/servlet/duologin?duo.request.key=TX%7CXWJsb2taaW5hfERJS1VFWUtNTU43VlA5SEtRUzhafDE1OTkxMjg5MTI%3D%7C1247afb812716a0b66ea501e0ba4bb5e4c3b3d52%3AAPP%7CZWJsb2toaW5hfERJS1VFWUtNTU43VlA5SEtRUzhafDE1OTkxMzIyMTI%3D%7C0446121cc01ff5edfcd30abd0a89725f16bfa3f9&duo.host.key=api-140f2f41.duosecurity.com&duo.originalurl.key=%2Fpages%2Fviewpage.action%3FspaceKey%3DProduct%26title%3DMIDAS%2BDashboard | action: viewpag

Cause

DUO is causing problems with the integration between Jira and Confluence (Application Link).

Solution

Follow the article from DUO: How do I create application links between Confluence and JIRA to resolve issues with Duo?

Updated on March 14, 2025

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