Goals + Confluence Databases

[Birgit P]

Hi,

so I just discovered that Goals works very nicely via SmartLinks with Atlassian Databases.
It's something we plan to use and that I want to highlight for others as a useful feature. 

The nice thing about this is the single-click possibility to create updates.
If you link to the update page, you get a side-bar and can directly update. Showing that in the picture below.

The Goals interface - if you or your organization has many goals) is clumsy. Lots of clicks.
Here's a feature request:
For Jira-Tickets, there's an explicit type where  you can embed fields that are linked to a Ticket. It would be awesome to have that for Goals

The most important fields would be

• Status (and allowing for that to be filtered)
• Last Update (!) - this is a critically missing field in Goals. Goals provides no condensed way of listing all last status updates.
• The metric (value)
• Date of last update

BP

[Rafael Assis Amancio]

Hi, I'm on the goals screen. When creating a goal, I need to link a project and then link the issues related to that goal. But I can't find my project; the project list is blank. Do I need to import some kind of project? If I try to create a project, when searching for the epics in the list, I can't find any.

[Anwesha Pan]

Hi @Rafael Assis Amancio 👋🏻

First of all, welcome to community! ✨

When you create a goal and try to link a "project," it's looking for Atlassian Home Projects — these are standalone communication/tracking pages in Atlassian Home, not your Jira project boards. If none have been created yet for your team's work, the list will be empty.

You have two options to connect work to your goal:

1. Link Jira epics directly to the goal (simplest approach) — On the goal page's right sidebar, you should see an option to link items like sub-goals, projects, and Jira epics. You can paste a Jira epic link directly there, or search for it. This connects your day-to-day Jira work to the goal without needing an Atlassian Home Project at all.

2. Create an Atlassian Home Project first, then sync it with a Jira epic — If you do want a project layer in between, you can create an Atlassian Home Project from the goal page. Once created, you link it to a Jira epic by pasting the epic's URL into the project's "Where is the work tracked?" field. Only parent-level work items (epics by default) can be synced this way.

I hope this helps & resolves your issue. 🙂

Thanks,
Anwesha