Create a confluence page that refers to a fix version jira filter and stays unchanged after a date

[Ryan Colandrea]

The goal of what my team is trying to do is create a release script for our weekly releases into production. This does two things, first it is a script on how to do things, and it is a historical reference on what was done.

We are trying to have an automated tie between our JIRA issues/stories and the script which is created in our confluence page. So far what we have done, is we have different sections (14 of them) for what application we have to do a release for and in each section we have an "insert JIRA Issue/Filter" macro. Looks like this (we use the component field to determine what JIRA story shows on what filter- not shown in the screen shot below):  the JQL search filter criteria in JIRA looks like this: 

The issue is, each week we update the fixVersion in the filter to be the next weeks release. So that causes all the content in the confluence page to change to match the next weeks stories in the fixVersion, thus losing out on the previous weeks information if no screenshot was taken.

We have 14 filters in the confluence page, so updating all of them to be the new fixVersion is a no go due to time it takes and potential user error. However we did try this for a couple weeks and it gives the result we are looking for, which is a usable confluence page with the information saved. 

Is there any way to do the above by just "flipping a switch" and freezing the page from updating information so all the story hyperlinks stay intact but still allow us to copy the confluence page and change the fixVersion for the next week? Or potentially a local variable on the confluence JIRA filter macro, that can be called from inside the page?

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Ryan Colandrea

I would just export the information on an excel and paste it on confluemce.  

The other option is to use another an extra customfield such as a date picker to determine when it was released. I would then purchase one of the confluence reporting plugins such as the rich filters where it allows you to filter between ranges. So yould only have to create 1 page and filter for the specific week. With this add on you can also filter components and fix versions.