Viewing Jira reports on a Confluence page

The same reports that are created on Jira can be replicated and displayed on a Confluence page. Macros allow you to replicate and display these reports. These macros come built into Confluence or may be provided by third-party Atlassian Marketplace apps such as Custom Charts for Jira.

You might be wondering, “If the reports are available on Jira, why use Confluence?” The answer is that Confluence provides the perspective of viewing the reports within the greater context of the project. A report can be embedded within a Confluence page or as part of a Confluence Space, which keeps all of the project information together in one spot for easy lookup.

Let’s examine how to enable these reporting macros on your project’s Confluence page.

How to do it…

The following macros can be used for reporting in Confluence:

• The JIRA report template: This is a Confluence page template for text-based reports...