How to Link JIRA Issues automatically in confluence page using filters?

How to Link JIRA Issues automatically in confluence page using filters?

In order to automate most of your day to day works there are many products from Atlassian suite and few of them which are commonly used are JIRA and Confluence. We all already knew what both are meant for. I will give a short brief to beginners below,

JIRA - 

It is an issue tracking system which is useful in case of companies or a group working as multiple teams and each time is independent of others. If a team has to assign a task or report an issue JIRA is useful in providing all the information about the work and communicate as well as keep track of it.

Confluence - 

This is usually termed as a wiki, used to document anything and is able to maintain the data documented. There are different level of accesses to be controlled and lot of tools which makes it easy to document data in Confluence.

Integration - 

Now you all have a good idea about JIRA and Confluence. As both of these fall under Atlassian umbrella they tend to be integrate one to other very well. If you are mentioning a JIRA issue in any confluence page, the JIRA issue has a note about it. Also, the confluence page where the JIRA is mentioned gets updated automatically based on the issue lifecycle.

All this above integration happens only when you mention the JIRA issue manually in the Confluence page and not by its own. Imagine you are working on a project dealing with 50-100 issues per week and a bunch of people working on it. It is very hard to make sure that everyone mentions the JIRA issue they create or deal with in their respective Confluence pages.

With the following approach you can create a new filter in the JIRA and insert a JIRA plugin in the Confluence which enables you to automatically populate all the issues which you filter in the search in a table form. Please follow below steps for that to happen

•  Go to your JIRA and search for your content, by using specific labels or by a reporter or by an epic link. You can chose whatever you want from a ton of options available. You can make use of "advanced" options as well
• Then click on "save as" as shown below so that it creates a new filter. 

• In Confluence, go to insert from the options available in the top. 
• Select JIRA Issue/Filter from the list you see

• Now you can five the filter name which you have given in the 2nd step as filter="name_of_filter_you_have_given"

• That's it. Boom! All your issues are automatically pulled into the Confluence page and updates automatically. You can also chose the columns to display from the display options available in .the above screen 

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