Summary

Currently, Jira does not have a way to disable Confluence mentioned in issue links selectively. The two permanent options available are:

• Disabling issue linking entirely, as described on Configuring issue linking.
• Removing the Confluence application link, as described on Link to other applications.

Several Jira Administrators have requested more granular remote issue link controls on JRASERVER-64952 - Getting issue details... STATUS

This guide described how you can remove existing Confluence mentioned in issue links. This approach applies to other applications supporting remote issue links, such as GitLab.

Environment

Jira 5.0 or later.

Confluence or another application that supports remote issue links.

Solution

1. Search for issue links

From your database, run the following statement to query the number of remote issue links to be deleted:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM remotelink WHERE relationship = 'mentioned in' AND url LIKE '<confluence-base-url>/%';

Replace <confluence-base-url> with the base URL of the linked application (for example, LIKE 'https://confluence.atlassian.com/%';). Be sure to leave the trailing slash and percent sign wildcard.

Confluence uses mentioned in as the relationship name. However, other applications may use different names – such as mentioned on in the case of GitLab. The remote application, not Jira, decides the relationship name.

To get more details on the remote issue links, replace COUNT(*) with *.

2. Delete issue links

After verifying the changes, use this DELETE statement to delete the remote issue links. Substitute the relationship and URL to match the previous SELECT query.

DELETE FROM remotelink WHERE relationship = 'mentioned in' AND url LIKE '<confluence-base-url>/%';