Display Jira & Confluence content on a screen

Question

Hi there

We would like to display some specific content out of Jira (specific issues, backlog) and out of Confluence on a screen using a digital signage software.

We are looking for a simple way to do that. Are there any (free) tools to do that? Does someone had done that already?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards Markus

Ghanshyam Pandey · Answer

We’ve done something similar at our office. We wanted to display our Jira sprint board and a few Confluence pages on a hallway screen so the team could see updates at a glance.

What worked for us was publishing the dashboards as web pages that don’t require login and then displaying those URLs through a digital signage software. We’ve tried a few options like Pickcel and ScreenCloud, and both handled web-based dashboards pretty well.

We set them to auto-refresh every few minutes, so the data stays current without anyone having to manage it manually. It’s been an easy way to keep everyone updated throughout the day.

Daniel Ebers · Answer

Hi Markus,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Sometimes this is done via the built-in "wallboard" functions:
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-core-cloud/docs/set-up-a-wallboard/

Here is some further reading about it:
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/3-steps-to-a-rocking-agile-wallboard

From my experience users often want to have a more specific display of the data or just don't accept the design of the built in wallboard, the kind of elements are arranged - or even worse: the display in the office must meet corporate styleguide guidelines...

If so, then you need to fetch relevant data using REST API, process it and display it in the digital signage software of your choice.

I know - there is a big gap between the first mentioned "wallboard" and coding everyting from scratch using REST API (second mentioned approach).

Cheers,
Daniel