Linking from JIRA to a specific part of a Confluence Page

Teddy Hills

Our team keeps an entire Epic's worth of stories on a single Confluence page. Sometimes we have as many 15 detailed stories on our Confluence page.

We then make a single JIRA issue for each story by highlighting the text on Confluence, and the stories are automatically linked to the Epic (Confluence Page). However, when we click this link, we are taken to the top of the Confluence page, not the specific part of the page that contains the story, so we have to scroll a long time to get to the relevant story.

Is there a way to link from JIRA to a specific part of a Confluence page? Do anchors work from JIRA to Confluence?

Thank you!

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

Yes, you can use anchors to do this. It may not be 100% intuitive to set them up, so I suggest a review of the docs.

Another way you can do this is with the Table of Contents macro. You can use the Heading 1-6 text types to create a page structure and when you insert the TOC macro in to the page, it automagically creates clickable anchors to the corresponding Heading. If you right click the link in the TOC, you will be able to capture the corresponding anchor URL.