Convert confluence task to MS Teams task in kanban board

Question

Hi everyone,

I am currently trying to translate designated tasks from Confluence to MS Teams tasks.

The idea is to:

1) Create a task in Confluence and add a responsible person.

2) The tasks is then transferred into a specific kanban board which is part of a Teams channel.

I know that it is possible to add confluence pages in the Teams channel, but this is not sufficient for what we are aiming to do.

Does anybody know, if there is a solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Kai

Kai Heckel · Answer

Thanks a lot @Tomislav Tobijas
That sound a promising, I will try it asap.

Cheers,
Kai

Tomislav Tobijas · Answer

Ah, got it @Kai Heckel !

This might be possible but probably only with REST API integrations between Confluence and Teams.

From what I managed to find out is the following:

* Confluence REST API / Tasks > you can use this to get all/some tasks from a particular Confluence page
* Planner tasks and plans API overview > (I haven't used Microsoft APIs) with payload from step #1, you could probably use Microsoft Graph and their APIs to then send that payload from Confluence and create a Teams task.

As you can imagine, this will probably take some work and I'm not 100% if it will work, but it might be worth a try. 👀

Cheers,
Tobi

Staffan Redelius · Answer

Hi, @Kai Heckel and welcome to the community!

I can not see how this could be achieved with some kind integration. The action item in Confluence is just a simple macro with some limited intelligence. The board in Teams does not have much functionality either.

You can however create a Jira work item directly from Confluence using a macro and assign it to member in a project.

Best regards,
/Staffan