Use JIRA to create a status page in Confluence

[Aidan Grey]

I think there's a way, but not sure how. Right now, I can create a filter in a onfluence page which lists all the open defects, and that's great, but not quite what I wanted.

Is it possible (and if so, how?) to create line items per defect (that update automatically) and that show the latest status updates from the comments? As in, filter for the defects, and then show just the most recent comment that has "status" or "update" (or some other codeword) in it.

For example, to look like this:

CASE-2384    The_Summary    Updated_Date    Status    Commentary_with_code

[Brant Schroeder]

@Aidan Grey Welcome to the Atlassian community

Not natively; the Jira Issue/Filter macro is showing fields which are available as column data - there isn't a comment field available.

We've gotten around this before using a custom field and automation - for example, we created a field called Last Comment:

• Create a custom paragraph field, called Last Comment - it doesn't need to be on a screen
• Create an Automation Rule to run whenever a comment is added, adding the last comment made into the custom field
• Visualize this in Confluence, as a field selected in the macro

[Aidan Grey]

Thanks for this! I don't think it will work for our specific instance, but it DID inspire some different ways of thinking about it. Specifically, we are thinking about creating some new fields and bringing them in.