automatic creation of jira task from confluence

[Reinhard Taucher]

hi!

i'm new to confluence and jir

i'm new to jira and confluence, specifically to creating rules, so i need some help: i would like to create a rule from confluence that does the following: when a task is activated in a row of a table, a new jira entry should be created. in this entry, the summary and description from the same row of the table - in which the task was activated - should be copied from the first and second column i manage to create the jira task, but unfortunately i fail when entering the values... T

thx!

[Darryl Lee]

Hi @Reinhard Taucher - I can't think of an easy way to do this.

I've done some work trying to figure out how to trigger off of when a Task Status is changed for a janky Page Approval Workflow.

So you definitely could figure out when somebody checks a box. But getting the info from the row of the table would be... very tricky.

There's definitely not anything built-in, so you'd end up having to use the API to grab the source for the entire page, search for the ID of the task that was "checked", and then find the summary and description within that table row.

I mean technically it should be possible with some knowledge of HTML and regular expressions, but it would be fairly complicated and possibly subject to breakage. (What if somebody adds a column to the table? What if they un-check and then re-check a task?)

I wish Confluence Databases had integration with Automation or even an API because I think your use case would be perfect using something like that, where the data is better structured.