Use Jira Cloud with Confluence

What is Confluence?

Confluence is a content creation and collaboration platform that connects teams with the content, knowledge, and coworkers they need to get work done, faster. Confluence spaces are great for creating and organizing rich content related to Jira spaces using Confluence pages – meeting notes, project plans, requirement documents, release notes, roadmaps, and more.

Why use Confluence with Jira

Here are some of the reasons we think you might like to add Confluence to your Jira instance:

For bugs

Create a knowledge base article to document a workaround for a bug.

For new features

Create a product requirements document for a new feature.

For general use-cases

Document and collaborate with your team on a work item in Confluence.

What Confluence can do

Here are just a few of the things Confluence allows you to do:

• Collaborative commenting, especially through the use of @mentions

• Share pages 

• Watch pages

• Form a 'team' network and let them know what you are doing via a status update

• Add images, picture galleries, videos, and more

• Enable various content macros

Confluence features for Jira users

Create a space in Confluence to give your team a central location for all relevant information, like:

• product requirements

• meeting notes

• decision logs

• retrospectives

You can even display the open work items of your Jira space in your Confluence homepage. More about space blueprints

Define product requirements

Many of our customers write product requirements documents using Confluence to plan new product features. The Product Requirements Blueprint helps development teams collaboratively create, discuss, and organize their product requirements. It's easy to link your product requirements in Confluence to work items in Jira.

More about Blueprints. Or, watch this 5-minute introduction.

• Define the properties of the document, which are then indicated on any page with the Page Properties Report macro.

• Communicate the status of your product requirements with the status macro.

• Use @mentions to automatically notify key stakeholders.

Team Calendars for Confluence: Your birds-eye-view of Jira

Surface everything your development team is working on in Jira to the teams that live in Confluence with Team Calendars.

• Timeline calendar: View plans 3 months ahead of time

• JQL support: Track your versions, work items, and agile sprints

• Date ranges: Visualize work items over time to understand the upcoming workload

Read more about Team Calendars for Confluence

Insert work items on any Confluence page using the Jira work items macro

Any Jira search result can be embedded in a Confluence page using the Jira work items macro with your choice of included fields and field ordering. With the Jira work items macro, you can:

• Display a table of work items on your page, based on the results of a search using Jira Query Language (JQL) syntax or a Jira URL.

• Display a single work item from the Jira site, or a subset of selected work items from your Jira search results.

• Display a count of work items from the Jira site.

• Create a new work item on the Jira site and display that work item on your page.

Auto-convert pasted work item links

Auto-convert makes producing reports of work items, backlogs, and tasks as easy as copy and paste. With Jira and Confluence connected, you can paste individual work items or Jira query URLs into the editor and watch them immediately transform into the Jira work items macro.

Automatic links

Whenever a work item is mentioned in a Confluence page using the Jira work items macro, Jira will create a work item link to that page for you, automatically. Product requirements to work items, knowledge base articles to support tickets, project outlines to tasks—it all works.

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. More about Confluence Cloud gadgets.