manipulate connected user in JIRA Issues Macro

Alexander Richter

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: JIRA Issues Macro

Hi there,

i would like to manipulate the JIRA Issue Macro via Source Editor, so the issue will be loaded not from current User.

UseCase: We want to show a Matrix view in Confluence for Customers, who have not the permission to show the specific issues in JIRA. So when looking at the Confluence Page with JIRA issue macro, they get an error, because they are not allowed to see the issues.

I think about manipulating the JIRA Issue Macro, to load the issues with a admin user.

 

here is the snippet of the source editor:

<span style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <ac:structured-macro ac:name="jira">
                          <ac:parameter ac:name="server">Jira</ac:parameter>
                          <ac:parameter ac:name="jqlQuery">project in (JPWP)<ac:parameter>
                          <ac:parameter ac:name="count">true</ac:parameter>
                          <ac:parameter ac:name="serverId"></ac:parameter>
                        </ac:structured-macro> <sub>0</sub> </span>

 

is it possible to add a parameter that tells the macro to load issue with a specific user?

 

Best Regards,

Alex

Rob Woodgate

Hi Alex,

Your solution is ingenious, but probably over-complicated for what you actually need.

The simplest way would be to allow Anonymous users, and give anonymous users view permissions. 

If you can't do that and your customers have their own Confluence logins, create a group called (something like) "jira-customers" and give that group read access to the projects that the customers should be able to see.  If you have multiple customer groups, each of which should have access to different projects (and not the projects that other customers can see), create a group for each customer group and set the permissions accordingly.