Organize Jira issues in tabs

Confluence Cloud currently does not support nested macros. Therefore, you cannot embed Jira Issues Macro or Include Page Macro within the Tabs macro, in order to create a single, high-level overview page of all the information needed. However, this functionality can be replicated by using the Pages to Tabs macro.

In the following example, we create an overview page for a support manager who needs to quickly view their team’s Jira tickets for planning and auditing purposes.

We use the Pages to Tabs macro combined with the standard Jira Issues macro (Atlassian) to display a series of tabs that show team members' Jira issues.

The resulting tabs display pages containing the Jira Issues macro, which dynamically pulls data from Jira, allowing real-time updates reflected in the tabs.

Ingredients

Prerequisites

We recommend you have a basic understanding of how to use Jira and Confluence together, as well as the Jira Issues Macro.

For more details, see these Atlassian pages:

• Use Jira and Confluence together

• Insert the Jira issues macro

Guide

1. Create a parent page to serve as an overview page. For now, you can just provide a suitable title and some text, and Publish it.

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2. Create child pages for each user under the parent page.
   Provide suitable titles, as we will use them later as tab titles. In this example, the team members' names are the page titles.

3. In each child page, insert a standard Jira Issues macro (Atlassian), use Jira Query Language (JQL) to filter the issues assigned to the corresponding user, and click the search button to see a preview of the issues.

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4.  Expand Display options to adjust settings such as Maximum issues and Columns to display, and click Insert. 

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5. Publish the page.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for each team member's child page.

7. Return to the overview parent page you created earlier and open it in edit mode.

8. Insert a Pages to Tabs macro via the macro browser, or use the keyboard shortcut ( / for new editor or { for old editor).
   The Insert Pages to Tabs Macro dialog opens.

9. From the Source list, select Page selector.

10. Leave the Parent page field with the current page selected. 

11. Click Save.
    The macro editor opens. The tab titles are the same as the titles of the child pages.

12. Click Save.
    The overview parent page now contains a series of tabs showing team members' Jira issues along with issue details. The Jira issues macro dynamically pulls data from Jira, ensuring updates are always reflected in the tabs.

Notes