Share reports and project updates with Jira dashboard Smart Links

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Hello! I’m Laura Mehrkens, a Product Manager focused on integrations between Confluence and Jira. Today, we’re introducing Smart Links for Jira dashboards! With Smart Links, you can now embed Jira dashboards and gadgets directly into Confluence to easily keep your team up-to-date on your projects.

Here’s how pairing Confluence with Jira supercharges your reporting workflows:

1. Centralized Collaboration Hub: Picture this: all your project updates and insights housed in one convenient location. That's what Confluence brings to the table. By seamlessly embedding Jira dashboards and gadgets into Confluence, you create a centralized, single source of truth and collaboration hub for your team. Plus, all of your embedded dashboards remain interactive, so you can drill down into charts and graphs to understand data in more depth.

2. Effortless Communication: It's time to say goodbye to constantly juggling multiple tools to share project progress with your team and stakeholders. With Confluence, you can present data from Jira in an easily digestible format, without requiring your stakeholders to dive into the technical details of Jira. Paired with Confluence’s communication tools like in-line commenting, mentions, and reactions, sharing feedback and questions has never been easier.

3. Enhanced Productivity: Let's face it — time is of the essence in the world of project management. By harnessing the combined power of Jira and Confluence integrations, you streamline your reporting workflow, reduce tedious workarounds, and focus on what truly matters: delivering results. Think of Confluence as your sidekick, helping you work smarter, not harder.

How do I get started?

1. Pick your dashboard: Go to your Jira dashboard or create a new, custom dashboard. Choose the data you want to embed by clicking on the copy button at the top right of your dashboard or an individual gadget.

2. Customize Your Pages: Navigate to your Confluence page and paste the link — it will automatically embed the dashboard or gadget. Then, tailor your page to suit your needs. Haven't explored Confluence yet? Now's the perfect time! Try it for free today.

3. Share and Collaborate: Spread the word! Share your Confluence page with your team and stakeholders. Collaboration has never been easier—or more effective.

Try this new integration today and unlock new levels of productivity and collaboration. Your projects—and your team—will thank you for it.

Have questions or need assistance? We're here to help! Drop us a comment below.

Here's to better collaboration and bigger achievements ahead! 🚀

[Rodolfo Romero - Adaptavist]

This is great! A couple of questions.

1. Would this require the user to have a Jira license to see the Dashboard in Confluence?
2. Would Confluence guest users be able to see these Dashboards?

[Sean Blezard]

This is an excellent (and long-needed) feature. A lot of great plugins were lost to Confluence in the move to Cloud. It looks like just the whole dashboard - which isn't quite as fun as the old server capability for plugins to drop in individually onto Confluence pages.

@Laura Mehrkens , you have an important mission. Atlassian is not close to fully leveraging Jira's capabilities in Confluence.

[Angel Silva]

Ma parece genial, este panel podrá ser visible para invitados a Confluence? o va a requerir licencia de Jira para ello? tengo Clientes que solo les interesa ver esto, y no veo conveniente agregarles una Licencia solo por esto... asi como pasa con los roadmap de Jira.

[Dave Howers]

This is great indeed! 

We've been testing around with quite some Dashboards, but this Product Management Dashboard is our preference. 

Especially if you're an agile team and you follow the scrum principles. 

[Jonathan]

@Dave Howers Nice one!

[Pip Bennington]

This fantastic, I'm off to start embedding things now!!

[Gary Long]

Hello!

Good to know that dashboards and gadgets can now be used in Confluence pages. I did a quick test and it worked great for a dashboard. I was able to clink on links, change filters, etc.

However, when I integrated the Filter Results gadget (a list of jira issues), I was not able to interact with the table, change the page or click any jira issue. The only working button was the one to open the gadget in Jira. Does anyone have the same issue?

Regards.

[Ryan Pluckrose]

I'm very interested in this feature.

Do I need to wait or enable something for this to work?

I'm an admin for 2 different cloud installs and pasting the link from the dashboard doesn't do anything for either one (apart from pasting a link).

Thanks!

[Eric Vervoordeldonk]

This is a great feature. Now we can create a one-stop- report with data from multiple sources. Will the same be done for the 'Reports' that are available in the Jira Service Management?

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thank you, @Laura Mehrkens 

[Dmitry Astapkovich _Colined_]

Would that be also available to 3rd party apps? Tons of reporting tool don't have a proper Confluence integration unfortunately =( I did a test with one of the apps we are developing, and the link was not recognized as a smart one. 

[Martin Flury]

Hi @Laura Mehrkens 

I don't agree with your statement "... all of your embedded dashboards remain interactive, ..."

If you mean with "remain interactive" showing the percentage on a pie chart, when hovering with the mouse over it , then YES, but most of the other interactivity I do miss.
Not even the issues of a filter result are interactive anymore.

Either I'm doing something wrong, or I do understand something different with "remain interactive".

[P_D_ Foerster]

It's great to see some progress on the integration part!

[Satu Kettunen]

@Laura Mehrkens None of the links to jira tasks work and you can't e.g. change the page with a card in the view. The refresh button is also not visible on the cards.
So this only embeds the view on the Confluence page, but all editing must still be done on the Jira side.
It looked so good in that example video, but it doesn't work as it should.

[maazkhanmaazkhan774]

Good

[Fernando Rodas]

Hello, I have a question, I'm trying exactly that, but I have a user who is a client in jsm and in confluence is a guest, so when I am with that user in confluence I can see the page but not the dashboard, it asks me for permissions and when testing I gave it permission to view in the dashboard and to the filter in jsm and nothing, what specific permission could it be to be able to view it.

[Laura Mehrkens]

@Rodolfo Romero - Adaptavist 

1. Users don't need a Jira license but they need permission to view the dashboard. If the user doesn't have a Jira license, the dashboard owner would need to set the dashboard to "public". Keep in mind that making a dashboard public means that anyone on the web can view it if they have the link, even if they are not logged into Jira or Confluence. 
2. Confluence guests can only see Jira dashboards if they are set to public. 

[Laura Mehrkens]

@Gary Long thank you for your feedback! There are currently some limitations in interacting with embedded dashboards and gadgets. We are looking at improving the experience and I will share back here once we've resolved the limitation with the filter results gadget.

[Laura Mehrkens]

@Ryan Pluckrose have you been able to embed a dashboard? There are sometimes delays in rolling out new features to all customers but you should now be able to embed dashboards and gadgets. Please let me know if you're still running into this issue. 

[Ryan Pluckrose]

Yup all good thanks.

Although, it still has the issue where, when you paste a dashboard link you don't see the embed option, just Card etc when you click the link. You have to click one of the options then the embed one will appear.