Jira Issue not displayed as Smart Link on Confluence using Jira Macro

Issue Summary

When using the Jira Macro on a Confluence page to display a Jira issue in a table format, if there's a free text field displayed which contains a Jira issue URL, it won't display it as a Smart link but rather as plain text.

See screenshot below:

Steps to Reproduce

1. On Jira Service Management, add a custom field to your project (plain text).
2. On Jira Service Management, create a ticket and in the newly added custom field add a url of a Jira issue.
3. On Confluence, create a page.
4. On Confluence, add the Jira macro (/jira) and insert the created JSM ticket as a table. Make sure to add the custom field as a column on the display options.
5. You'll see that within the table, the Jira issue is displayed as plain text and not as a smart link.

Expected Results

To have the Jira issue displayed as a Smart link.

Actual Results

The Jira issue is displayed as plain text.

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available