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Possible to use Jira post function to create a confluence page

Craig Hylwa

Would like to create a Confluence Page using post function in a Jira workflow. Is this possible?

The following features would also be desirable:

1. Page would be created using a specific Confluence Template
2. Page would be named the same as the Jira Issue
3. Page would be linked to Jira Issue

Accepted answers

Bob Swift

Run CLI Actions in JIRA provides a post function for running Confluence (or other Atlassian product) actions like this with substitution variables like issue summary. Confluence CLI actions don't use templates, but you could copy from another page with find/replace type substitution. You could insert a link to the JIRA item in the page text.

How to create Confluence pages summarizes some of the techniques that can be used. This was created and improved after discussions with Cindy and others. Thanks for all the feedback.

All comments

darylchuah

Hi Craig

I believe this configuration is achievable by using a third-party plugin called Script Runner

You may refer the following discusssion for further guidelines and information:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/28368/automatically-create-a-page-under-project-on-confluence-when-a-jira-issue-is-created

Hopefully it helps

Bob Swift

Craig Hylwa

Hi Bob

I have read your post and I have some questions for you.

1. How many plugins and their names are required to accomplish

a. Create the confluence page from Jira workflow

b. Automatically create link in Confluence page to Jira Issue

2. Do you have any examples of how this can be done

Bob Swift

The CLI plugin linked above is all you need. Not your specific example, but there are some how tos linked from that page.

Craig Hylwa

Hi Bob using the Jira CLI plugin I have so far been able to

1. Create a page in Confluence from a Workflow Transition (good!)

2. I have been able to name it using the %original_key% (good!)

But actually I would like to name the page with a combination of %original_key% and %issue_summary%

How do I accomplish this?

Cindy Creswick

Hello Craig:

I am trying to do the exact same thing that you mention in your Oct 3rd @ 2:27 entry; --findReplace "jira123#{jira:%original_key%}"

I am automatically creating a Confluence page upon a JIRA issue transition (using copyPage) and I would like to automatically add a link to the newly created page on the JIRA issue. If you were successful in foing this, would you mind posting the action. Thank you.

Craig Hylwa

Hi Cindy:

I was never able to do this but according to Bob Swift it is doable. Sorry, I can't be of more help.

Cindy Creswick

No problem. I emailed Bob and he helped me set this up. It works great!

Craig Hylwa

Can you share the solution?

Cindy Creswick

Sure. Bob created an udated version of How to Create Confluence Pages. I followed the instructions in Scenario 4 - Link a Page back to JIRA.

I used, --findReplace LINK_TO_ISSUE:%original_key%

Then in the Confluence page that I was using as the template, I added the content below using the source editor. To do this I installed the Confluence Source Editor plugin which is free. Let me know if you have any more questions.

<p>
  <ac:macro ac:name="jira">
    <ac:default-parameter>LINK_TO_ISSUE</ac:default-parameter>
  </ac:macro>
</p>

CLI action
Product: Confluence
Action: --action copyPage --space "ENH" --title "Epic Cover Page Template - Please Do Not Use" --newTitle "%original_key%: Cover Page - %original_summary%" --parent @home--findReplace LINK_TO_ISSUE:%original_key% --server http://....... --user "automatic" --password "automatic"

B. Nana

This is an old topic but I'm hoping someone can help me with a slightly extended issue:

I am using a similar setup as your's @Cindy Creswick to basically create a JIRA ticket that then has a post-function which creates a Confluence page from copyPage, then some way to notify the submitter that the confluence page has been created. At it's most basic, I was hoping that the link would create a trackback between JIRA and Confluence, but this is not working for me (ie. no trackback is created, even though the link is successfully created) - is this the case for anyone else using this method? The alternative I thought would be to use an @mention, but the macro requires an ID# which I don't have (just have the userid), or to add the user as a watcher, but I can't get the Data part to fire on the original page I created in the Action part. Any thoughts?

Here's an example of my current attempt:

CLI action
Product: Confluence
Action: --action copyPage --space SPC --title "questionnaire" --parent @home --newTitle "Doc: %issue_summary% %original_reporter%" --replace --findReplace "JIRALINK:%original_key%" --copyLabels --server "https://conf" --user x --password "y"
Data: --action addWatch --user "%original_reporter%" --space SPC --title "Doc: %issue_summary% %original_reporter%" --server "https://conf" --user x --password "y"

In this above, the action part works, but the data part never works, no matter what I put in. I am probably doing something wrong, but syntactically it loks all correct to me. Help? My primary requirement is to be able to send a notification back to the person who created the JIRA ticket that triffered the creation of the counfluence page, which will be original_reporter.