Task Report Macro

Question

My company is looking into confluence since we use JIRA. I see that it is possible to view tasks in a task report. I have the following questions:

1. Can anyone view anyone's tasks in the company?

2. Is there a way to mark a task as private?

3. Is there a way to make it so that a person cannot view tasks of their manager? If so then how does confluence know the organizational hierarchy? Is it via AD or LDAP?

Sri Paladugu · Answer

Thanks @Chris Nicosia  for the info.

Maybe if I step back and explain our challenge there might be a better approach. Our main challenge is how can decision makers track action items within the whole company to know the load on individuals. Right now we use JIRA to track anything code related for software. But how do we track items that are not directly related to software yet still have a single place to view everything? Is it possible to export confluence tasks to JIRA?

Chris Nicosia · Answer

Hey Sri - The general idea that will cover most of your questions is that tasks are created on confluence pages.  Who can see the tasks created on a page is driven by who can view the page based on permissions and page restrictions.

1. Can anyone view anyone's tasks in the company?

- See above, based on restrictions and permissions to the pages where the tasks were created.

2. Is there a way to mark a task as private?

- If the task is on a page that only you have access to, such as a page in your Personal Space, then it would be "private"

3. Is there a way to make it so that a person cannot view tasks of their manager? If so then how does confluence know the organizational hierarchy? Is it via AD or LDAP?

-  See above, tasks view-ability isn't based on hierarchy.  That being said, you could in theory setup spaces or pages with restrictions to mirror your hierarchy from AD/LDAP and assign tasks on the appropriate place.

Please let me know if this helps or if you need more clarification.  If this answer resolves your question, please accept this response as the answer.