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New to Confluence - how do i set a tasks list

Justin Freeden

Hi guys,

Hope you can help.

I am brand new to Confluence which i am using on a Trial basis.

I have started a new business and i want a software where i can:

1) share documents and information with employees

2) A task list.

I have set everything up and have a number os Spaces. But i am missing a nice clean task list.

Another company i had employed an IT company and they used JIRA and Kanban for work they were doing for us. I was envisaging a similar software for my employees.

So my question is which Atlassian product should i be using for the above. And if you suggest Confluence can JIRA/Kanban be connected to it?

I hope that makes sense.

Thank you

Accepted answers

Manon Soubies-Camy

Hello Justin,

To share a task list within Atlassian products, you have several choices:

Confluence tasks. You can assign a task to someone and set a due date. The task can only be ticked or unticked, it won't follow any workflow.
Trello. If you don't know Trello, here's a good starting point. If you're using Confluence Cloud, you can link both: add Trello cards to Confluence, add Confluence pages to Trello cards...
Jira Core. You will be able to link Jira issues (tickets) to Confluence pages and vice versa.
Jira Software. Just like Jira Core but it adds the Kanban board feature.

If you only need a task list, I think Jira may be overkilled. This page is good to get an overview of the differences between Trello and Jira Software: Jira Software vs. Trello.

Hope this helps,

- Manon

Jonny Adams

@Justin Freeden Confluence is a great tool for creating a knowledge base to share internally or externally as desired. You can open Spaces and Pages to as much or as little collaboration as you desire. Confluence also provides a nifty solution for creating tasks and assigning them. Please see Confluence Tasks. Confluence integrates very well with Jira.

Trello is another great management tool that you may want to consider. It integrates with Jira and it can be used in a variety of ways. You can use a variety of boards arranged with lists in the way that you want them and they can be shared with your team. you can create tasks and assign them then watch their progress across your board.

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Ajay _view26_

Both Confluence and Jira are build for teams and are versatile and easy to adopt and use.

Jira is more to do with Planning & Tracking whereas Confluence for team collaboration with Documents ( Confluence Pages).

As for having Tasks in Confluence you can use the Task feature available in Confluence.

Manon Soubies-Camy

Hello Justin,

To share a task list within Atlassian products, you have several choices:

Confluence tasks. You can assign a task to someone and set a due date. The task can only be ticked or unticked, it won't follow any workflow.
Trello. If you don't know Trello, here's a good starting point. If you're using Confluence Cloud, you can link both: add Trello cards to Confluence, add Confluence pages to Trello cards...
Jira Core. You will be able to link Jira issues (tickets) to Confluence pages and vice versa.
Jira Software. Just like Jira Core but it adds the Kanban board feature.

If you only need a task list, I think Jira may be overkilled. This page is good to get an overview of the differences between Trello and Jira Software: Jira Software vs. Trello.