After you have connected applications via application links, you can also connect the areas of those applications that contain information relating to your project or team. Using project links (also called entity links) you can associate one or more projects, spaces and repositories across the linked applications.

Project links allow you to take advantage of integration points in Atlassian applications such as:

  • Activity streams. For example, the project links determine the activity retrieved from JIRA to display in a Confluence activity stream.
  • The JIRA FishEye plugin. For example, a project link between a JIRA project and a FishEye repository restricts the scope of JIRA searches to a specific FishEye repository. Note that we do not recommend the use of project links with FishEye 2.9 and later, if you have JIRA 5.0 or later as well as the latest version of the JIRA FishEye Plugin. This is because application links now provide all of the functionality previously available with project links.

Third-party plugins may make use of project links to enrich their functionality too.

What can be linked?

You can link one or more of the following:

  1. Log in to your application as an JIRA Administrator and navigate to the administration page for the project:
  2. Choose the project in your local application that you want to link from. For example, you may want to link a FishEye repository to another type of project.
  3. The instructions for adding a project link will vary depending on whether the target application has Application Links:
    • If the target application has Application Links:
      1. Click Add Link. Then, in the dropdown menu, click the application that contains the project you want to link to. For example, if you want to link to a specific JIRA project, click the JIRA site that contains that project. If you want to link to a Confluence space, click the Confluence site that contains that space.
      2. Click one of the options on the 'Authorization required' screen:
        • Authorize — Select to grant your project authorised access to the target project. The target application will open in a new window, so that you can log in and authorise access.
        • Skip – your access is anonymous — Select if you only want to allow anonymous access to the target project.
      3. In the Name or Key field, enter the name/key of the project in the remote application that you want to link to. For example, if you want to link to a JIRA project, enter the project key. If you want to link to a Confluence space, enter the space key.
      4. Click the Create button to create the project link.
    • If the target application does not have Application Links:
      1. Click Add Link. Then, in the dropdown menu, click the application that contains the project you want to link to. For example, if you want to link to a specific JIRA project, click the JIRA site that contains that project. If you want to link to a Confluence space, click the Confluence site that contains that space.
      2. In the Key field, enter the name/key of the project in the remote application that you want to link to. For example, if you want to link to a JIRA project, enter the project key. If you want to link to a Confluence space, enter the space key.
      3. (optional) Enter the alias for the project in the Alias field. This is the display name for the project in your administration console.
      4. Click the Create button to create the project link.

 

 

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