MCP to create a confluence page with an issue link

[Alistair Galbraith]

I'm trying to automate the capture of certain notes and, in an ideal world, Claude can create both a confluence page as well as the associated jira issues. This works great.

However, if I want Claude to then reference the created issues in the confluence page, such that issue links work from Jira to Confluence - it doesn't work. All the macros I'm used to using seem to get escaped out. This means the issue is unaware of the confluence page, and the page itself doesn't show the issue status.

I know there are 3rd party MCP servers that created a `content_format` parameter to support passing markup into Confluence - I'm intrigued if the Atlassian product team have any thoughts?

[Becker, Rene]

Hi Alistair,

until you get an fair answer, here's how I resolved this issue (with Automations in my case):

• Created a page that contains to a valid Jira link Macro (I created an issue called "SYSTEM-1"
• I use the page as a template and replace "SYSTEM-1" with the correct issue ID

This allows me to select whether it is embedded, a card or a simple text. It also saves me the hassle to try to recreate the Jira Macro (which I think I cannot anyway because it is created via JavaScript Magic).

Hope this matches your use case and helps a bit :-) 

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