Integration with JIRA provides three advantages:
- You can log in on either the NCI Wiki or Tracker and you will be logged in on both sites.
- If you have editing permissions on the wiki, you can use a shortcut to display any one JIRA issue. Refer to Using the JIRA shortcut.
- If you have editing permissions you can also use the jiraissues macro. Refer to Using the jiraissues macro.
- Using the Team Calendars macro, you can create a JIRA Issues Calendar to display JIRA issues on a Confluence calendar. Note that because a Team Calendar has an image that is invisible and has no alt text, only essential calendars should be embedded in a public wiki page.
Confluence 3.5 provided improved JIRA integration, as shown in the demonstration provided by Atlassian.
The capability of creating a JIRA issue from within Confluence does not apply to the NCI instance, because NCI JIRA trackers have mandatory field requirements that have been customized.