If you aren’t familiar with Atlassian’s Smart Links, there is a good chance you may already be using them. But if you’re new to Atlassian or need a deeper dive, then this overview is for you!
Smart links are windows into your work. It allows you to surface work in one tool when it lives in another. When you paste a page, project board, list, timeline, form, or calendar link into another Atlassian product, a Smart Link will display up-to-date information. Copy any url from Confluence, Jira, Atlas, Trello, or another third-party tool (like Google docs, Miro, Figma, etc.) and paste it where you want that information to live. The link will allow you to preview the page, embed the page directly, or edit it directly. Link Atlas tickets, Trello boards, Jira projects, or Confluence pages with a simple copy and paste.
Smart Links give the user the ability to choose different views of how they want the link to show up and can be changed through the drop down menu. These include:
The most popular Smart Link, these are rendered inline, and surface the least amount of context. Instead of a URL, it will render as an inline Smart Link with your project name.
Card Smart Links provides slightly more context by surfacing a preview of the content, the business project name, including summaries and actions.
Embedded Smart Links allow you to view pages, boards, lists, timelines, or calendar view in other Atlassian products without them having to leave the page. Read and edit a Google Drive document, manipulate your Figma file and more, all within your current page.
Did you know that you could nest your Smart Links? In this example below, a Confluence page is opened from a Jira Work Management task that is opened from a Trello board. This person can make edits to the Confluence page all without leaving their current Trello tab.
Smart Links are continuously evolving and work with over 30 of your favorite tools like Google docs, Figma, Github, Dropbox and more. Let us know in the comments below what your favorite Smart Link feature is and what features you want to see come next!
Emilee
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