Integrating JIRA with Confluence
Often, you will be using JIRA to track the progress of your engineering projects, and you will use another application to keep documentation. In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate JIRA with Confluence, another popular application from Atlassian, which is commonly used for documentation.
Getting ready
Since we will be using Confluence in this recipe, you will need to have an instance of Confluence running on your system. If you do not have one, you can download a free Confluence trial from https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence.
How to do it...
The first step is to establish the link between JIRA and Confluence:
Navigate to Administration | Applications | Application links in JIRA.
Enter your Confluence URL into the Application text box, and click the Create new link button. JIRA should automatically detect the target application as Confluence; if, for some reason, it does not, make sure you select Confluence as the Application type when prompted...
