How to automate updating of JIRA filters/query on Confluence page

Question

Hello everyone,

We have our Confluence page for each step of a sprint and this page needs to be updated every sprint with the sprint related stories.

The team, usually updates the Jira query or filter manually when editing the Confluence page each sprint. The issue is that this is a manual process prone to human error.  I have pasted bellow How the page usually looks once all the data is pulled from JIRA.

My idea was to write a script, not sure in which language or how to link it to both Confluence and JIRA, haven't written scripts at all.

These are the steps that I have identified on what the script should update:

* For project is CLOUD and issuetype is STORY  change currentFixVersion from … to  … and nextFixVersion from … to …

This is our current JIRA query:

project = PROJECT NAME AND issuetype = Story AND fixVersion in (S4.3.20, S4.3.20DF, S4.3.20FT, S4.4.20, S4.4.20DF, S4.4.20FT) AND fixVersion not in (S4.2.20FT, S4.5.20DF, S4.6.20DF, S5.1.20DF,S5.2.20DF) AND ("Lead Countries" = "COUNTRY NAME" OR "Other Countries" in (COUNTRY NAME AND ALL)) AND (COUNTRY NAME != "Not Applicable")

Thank you for your help and please ask any questions that might make this clearer.

Oscar_y42kz0 · Answer

Hi @Oana I have been working on a similar area. Our aim is to automate the creation of confluence pages and include the Jira's that are linked to the page. So far I have this string which I append to the end of a HTML I intend to post to confluence via powershell. " Admiral IT Jira issuekey,summary,issuetype,created,updated,assignee,status key,summary,type,created,updated,assignee,status 20 summary ~ "$($PageTitle)" OR labels ="$($PageTitle)" *MASKED* " Here we are using a JQL query within the Jira macro. However, the issue we are facing is (The first line from above). The ac:macro-id is taken from an existing page and I suspect this is the problem because they are unique. This link: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-is-the-purpose-of-ac-macro-id-Can-it-be-omitted-from-User/qaq-p/799325provided some explanation but omitting the Id failed too.This comment may help your work and if anyone else can provide more info thanks!

Oana_ys0gro · Answer

Thank you @Katerina Kovriga _Stiltsoft_ this seems interesting and useful but I am looking for something different.

Hope to get a bit more answers and help.

Oana

Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft} · Answer

Yes, it's a paid app: filtering is only one part of the available functions. The addon supports Cloud/Server/DC and provides Excel-like features (pivots, table calculations, conditional formatting, table merging, pagination, various kinds of charts based on static and dynamic data, import/export to CSV, etc.).

It may come in handy if you use a lot of tables in Confluence (both manually created and automatically generated by such table macros as Jira Issues, Page Properties Report, etc.). So feel free to give it a try - you'll have one month to explore all the features with an evaluation license.