Decision Macro in JIRA use?

Question

I have used the decision macro in confluence a bit, and relatively recently noticed they are present in JIRA.  Do they serve any purpose/have any actual utility in Jira other than a visual demarcation of a decision being made?  ie; can i write a filter to say "project = X and Decision IS NOT EMPTY?" to display all our decisions? or can this integrate with Confluence? etc?

James Wilson · Answer

I would be interested in this, as I am a bit confused of what purpose they serve currently.

I can see there are decisions against goals too. I tested to see if a decision within a jira ticket linked to the goal showed up under the goal decisions and they did not. Seems like work in progress.

You don't seem to be able to have jql that would work in confluence either.

Hopefully this will improve over time.

Walter Buggenhout · Answer

Hi @Steve Holland,

I am not aware of any extra search / reporting features on the decision macro in Jira. Maybe at some point this will become possible, but even Rovo let me down when trying to find them at this point 😅:

So: mainly cosmetics for now indeed!

For a larger initiative decision log with an overview page, you'll still be better off using Confluence. If you want to make your decisions inside an issue stand out visually, it can definitely help in Jira to that extent, but not really beyond it (yet).

Hope this helps!