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  2. CONFCLOUD-80013

Improve Create Confluence Page action in A4J - automatically link the Confluence page to the Jira issue and/or be able to access the page/URL via smart values

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      Problem Description

      Recently, there was a new Automation action introduced to Jira Cloud to Create a Confluence page. This is handy to create new Confluence pages from Jira, or to create multiple pages by referencing a template. However, when a Confluence page is created, it isn't automatically linked to the Jira issue used to create the page.

      Suggested Resolution

      Provide the ability to automatically create a remotelink between the Jira issue used to create the Confluence page, and the Confluence page that was created, similar to the below example:

      Also, possibly returning the page id along with the URL would be helpful as well.

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      Related suggestions

      • I want to be able to automatically link a confluence page on issue creation, however the "Edit Field" - "Linked Issue" action only allows to link a Jira issue in the automation rules as of now. I would love if you added a way to link a Confluence page here like you do in the normal issue edit screens.
      • Automation Ability to create confluence child pages under the parent page via smart values - At the moment we can create child pages by selecting the Parent page manually.

      Requirements:

        • When issue is created
        • If issue type is Task - Create a Parent Confluence page
        • If Subtask created - Create a Child Confluence page under the Task's Parent Confluence page
      • To have a smart value that would display the content after the Create Confluence Page automation is used. This would be great to link the page to trigger an issue, for instance, and would help to reduce the risk of additional complexity of making follow-up API calls to Confluence as well.

      Workaround

      https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/link-the-newly-created-confluence-page-to-jira-issue-using-automation-1443037635.html

            [CONFCLOUD-80013] Improve Create Confluence Page action in A4J - automatically link the Confluence page to the Jira issue and/or be able to access the page/URL via smart values

            That would be very helpful!!!

            Pierre Laaser [K15t] added a comment - That would be very helpful!!!

            Safae Merzoug added a comment - - edited

            Would like to be able to easily link Confluence pages to a Jira issue using a Jira Automation action.

            Safae Merzoug added a comment - - edited Would like to be able to easily link Confluence pages to a Jira issue using a Jira Automation action.

            vote for  

            Jens Hoffmann added a comment - vote for  

            Matt Lane added a comment -

            +1 vote Would like to be able to easily link Confluence pages to a Jira issue using a Jira Automation action.

            Matt Lane added a comment - +1 vote Would like to be able to easily link Confluence pages to a Jira issue using a Jira Automation action.

            Syd Heller added a comment -

            This functionality would be very helpful in our workflows as well. In my opinion, it is safe to assume that if you are creating a Confluence page in an Automation, you would want the Issue to then be linked to that Confluence page. Right now, we have the Automation comment on the Issue, with a link to the new Confluence page, but it's a shame because it doesn't use the Link Confluence Page that is built into Jira.

            Syd Heller added a comment - This functionality would be very helpful in our workflows as well. In my opinion, it is safe to assume that if you are creating a Confluence page in an Automation, you would want the Issue to then be linked to that Confluence page. Right now, we have the Automation comment on the Issue, with a link to the new Confluence page, but it's a shame because it doesn't use the Link Confluence Page that is built into Jira.

            This would provide a much better user experience being able to easily create a proper Confluence link.

            Sure you can update a text field with the URL of the created page, or being a slightly more advanced user follow a guide like https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-extend-automation-for-jira-with-rest-api-calls-1155142199.html 

            The problem with the second option is that you likely want to rotate the credentials for integration users, having multiple rules makes the administration a burden having to change tokens in a multitude of places with the risk of forgetting some and thus breaking working processes.

            The request to have created Confluence page linked in Jira ticket is also requested in AUTO-129, AUTO-84, AUTO-77, AUTO-64, AUTO-52

            Jonas Ekström added a comment - This would provide a much better user experience being able to easily create a proper Confluence link. Sure you can update a text field with the URL of the created page, or being a slightly more advanced user follow a guide like https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-extend-automation-for-jira-with-rest-api-calls-1155142199.html   The problem with the second option is that you likely want to rotate the credentials for integration users, having multiple rules makes the administration a burden having to change tokens in a multitude of places with the risk of forgetting some and thus breaking working processes. The request to have created Confluence page linked in Jira ticket is also requested in AUTO-129 , AUTO-84 , AUTO-77 , AUTO-64 , AUTO-52

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