Adding a link from JIRA to Confluence and back

Question

Hi,

I have an instances of JIRA and Conluence installed and properly integrated (I think).

Is there a way to have a links from one to the othe in the headers of each application? Ideally, to have similar header in general, so it at least feels like the same app. :)

Thanks,

Alex

MRJ · Answer

Hi Alex, I had the same question moving from Jira / Confluence On-demand to Download. I managed to do it with some HTML / CSS. (excuse my rusty HTML / CSS, feel free to improve :-) In confluence: Goto administration / layout -> edit "main layout" Find

Issues Wiki

Save and Goto administration / stylesheet add this CC: #header-tab-inactive{color: #FFF; background: #6ac7bb; padding: 4px 10px 4px 10px; margin-right:5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px;} #header-tab-active{color: #FFF; background: #f37321; padding: 4px 10px 4px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px;} Be aware that confluence pages with a theme override this CSS... so you have to manually add it to the projects that use a theme (havent figured out how to configure the master theme). In Jira: Add the html / css for the tabs to Jira. This needs to be 'hacked' to the the header jsp. (see https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32665/common-user-interface-for-jira-confluence-bamboo) Good luck :-)

Alex Agulyansky · Answer

Any easy way to do it without coding? :)

SarahA · Answer

Hallo Alex

You can write a couple of simple plugins to do this. Here are some tutorials:

JIRA: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Plugin+Tutorial+-+Adding+your+own+Menu+Items+to+JIRA

Confluence: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Adding+Menu+Items+to+Confluence

I hope this helps.

Cheers, Sarah