Box view feature in Smart Jira issue view
Box view feature allows a single Jira issue to be rendered as a fully configurable box on a Confluence page.
It is especially useful while working on a Confluence page linked to an issue. Such as decision making overview page linked to a Jira Task or feature request overview page linked to a Jira Epic.
These pages tends to have this kind of table on top of the document:
Imagine you want to change a status of an issue. Steps you need to perform are:
Press ‘edit’ and wait for the Confluence editor to fully load;
Click NOT STARTED status badge, replace it’s text with IN PROGRESS and manually change the colour to blue;
Save your changes and wait for Confluence to load;
Click linked issue and wait for Jira to load;
Transition issue’s status to in progress;
Realise that the owner in Jira is set to a different person;
Go back to Confluence and refresh the page then press edit again and wait for the heavy editor to load;
Fix the owner field in the table and finally saves the page.
This takes time and can be really frustrating if you have to update several pages in a row.
Smart Jira issue view scenario
Once you insert a Smart Jira issue macro on a Confluence page, you have all the information needed right on the page:
All the data presented is up to date. There is no need to manually sync them between Jira and Confluence.
Let’s repeat the above scenario:
Click box header and wait for lightweight modal to open;
Transition issue’s status to in progress;
Hit escape or x sign in the modal;
That’s it. Everything right on the Confluence page.
