Custom JQL Filter using the value of an excerpt

Jane Mitchell_u47lf8

Is it possible to use the excerpt on a page as a variable in a JQL filter query on that same page? Use case ( because we can't have custom user macros in Confluence Cloud ):

• We have sprint planning Confluence docs which show multiple Jira filters on the page.
• This template is reused every sprint and each filter then has to individually be updated by hand to update the JQL query to use the new sprint value
  • Would rather have a custom variable that could be used in the JQL query that uses an excerpt which sets the sprint string name on the page.

Shannon S

Hi Jane,

Thank you for raising this question. The JQL query is part of Jira, which the integration allows Confluence to reference.

There has been a feature request, but it's closed as of 2017:

• CONFCLOUD-32550 JQL and Page variables

I did some investigation to see what I could learn about any way to accomplish this. I discovered the discussion below, which has a  potential workaround:

Confluence Variables in JIRA JQL macro  

I hope this helps!

Take care,

Shannon