Creating Jira tasks in Confluence is now new and improved

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Hi everyone,

I’m Marie, a Product Manager focused on integrations and workflows between Confluence and Jira. At Team ‘24 Europe, we introduced a major update to the Jira issue creation workflow in Confluence, making the transition from planning to execution smoother and more efficient than ever.

Teams rely on Confluence to document knowledge, craft project plans and requirements docs, and serve as their single source of truth as they collaborate. While Confluence is an exceptional tool for these purposes, what truly elevates it are its integrations with Jira (and yes, I might be a little biased). These integrations take Confluence beyond your standard knowledge management tool by directly connecting it to the work you’re tracking in Jira – speeding up your workflows in ways that other documentation tools can’t.

Now, transforming Confluence content, like project plans or action items from your meeting notes, into actionable tasks in Jira is faster and easier than before, with a modernized interface and expanded functionality. Simply, highlight the text you want to turn into tasks and instantly create trackable work items in Jira without ever switching between tabs or tools.

Here’s everything you need to know about how this new feature will help you work more effectively.

What’s new and improved

A modern experience

We’ve completely redesigned the task creation interface in Confluence, making it more intuitive, reliable, and consistent to the issue creation experience in Jira. After highlighting text in Confluence and selecting the + Jira issue button, you’ll now retain full context of your Confluence page as you create Jira issues. No more toggling between tabs or windows or setting up side-by-side screens – everything you need to create and track your work remains in view.

AI-powered issue creation

Say goodbye to manual data entry with the help of AI. We’ve added new functionality, using Atlassian Intelligence, to help speed up the process of creating Jira tasks. Now, once you highlight your text in a Confluence page, simply select Create with Atlassian Intelligence and let AI do the work. This feature takes into consideration the text you’ve highlighted, along with the context of your entire Confluence page, and quickly generates a comprehensive summary and description for your Jira tasks.

Note: In order to create tasks with Atlassian Intelligence, you'll need to have Confluence Premium+ and Atlassian Intelligence enabled for Confluence.

Benefits to your workflow

These new updates are more than just a facelift. They’re designed to improve your workflows in tangible ways:

• Reduce context switching: One of the biggest challenges of moving from planning to managing work is switching between tools, tabs and browsers. With this workflow, you no longer need to jump back and forth. Create tasks directly from your project plans in Confluence in a way that looks and feels familiar to how you work in Jira.

• Save time with AI: Manually copy and pasting and creating tasks from scratch is a thing of the past. Atlassian Intelligence-powered task creation automates the generation of issue details, reducing the steps you have to take to create a Jira issue.

• Enhance collaboration within your teams: Integrations between Confluence and Jira help teams stay aligned as they transition from planning in Confluence to executing plans in Jira. Tasks created in Confluence remain linked to their respective pages and Confluence pages remain linked in Jira tasks, ensuring full alignment across teams and projects.

Share your thoughts

We’re excited to hear what you think about this update and its impact on your workflows. Try it today and drop us a comment to let us know what you think. Stay tuned for more updates to this workflow… including bulk issue creation (coming soon!).

[Amit Bhola]

This is extremely helpful, Thanks! 

[Robert]

A good reason to start using Jira!

[Guillaume Cheseaux]

Please bring back the ability to only have the Jira issue key displayed 😇

Like having DOC-212

Instead of the inline DOC-212: We want short names IN PROGRESS

or the giant card...

[Simon König]

Very, very nice to have this!

A essential for using Confluence+Jira.

Just a thought: Now you use the marked text as summary in the Issue-Creation: Maybe there should be an option / setting to rather choose this to use the text as the description. Since most of the time free text like Confluence is more of a description and not a clean, short summary.

[Ange Stone]

Great! Time saving :) 

[Dave Buitenhek]

Guillaume Cheseaux - there are four options for links - URL, Inline, Card, Embed. For your use case, paste the Jira Issue link, then select the URL option, then edit the text to only show DOC-212. Let me know if that's not what you're looking for.