Improve Create Confluence Page action in A4J - templates, add body editor & ability to pass Jira smart values to Confluence page template, e.g. to support "Create Release Notes in Confluence" use case, ability to link Jira fields to Confluence table

Suggested improvements

• Option to automatically link fields of a confluence table to information in a jira ticket, similarly to how it's done with SQL. E.G. if a column/ticket of data's summary is "Game Title #1" you can select the matching column/description within it, and return it in the target column/confluence table cell.

• Add default confluence templates to Create Page confluence(Template selection) within the Automation for Jira
•  With Jira automations "Create page in Confluence" action, we can currently use smart values in the title only. Please allow the option to pass on smart values to the page template that's been selected.
• A4J doesn't support Confluence Templates with variables set.

Workaround for using Confluence Global Template in Jira automation:

Creating a new space to copy the global templates:

Under your Confluence, you will access some space where your users have access:

• Create a space called Global Templates;
• Click on Space Settings > Templates > Create new template;
• Copy all the items under the template that you want to use to this new template, give a name, and save it;

After this, under your Jira Automation, you can select the Global Templates under space and use the templates that you added to this space.

Creating Confluence page through REST API

Another way to create a confluence page using Jira automation is by using the Confluence REST API and sending a web request through the automation. The following link will explain how to achieve that:

• Automating the creation of a Confluence page linked to a Jira ticket