/huddle macro for Confluence & Huddle panel in Jira tickets

Audio conversations and screen sharing with your colleagues at your fingertips while collaboratively editing pages in Confluence! Use /huddle macro to connect with your team.

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Inspiration

This project is inspired by Slack huddle, Figma audio chat, and Google Docs instant meetings. Audio communication and screen sharing embedded into a product is very useful, and I'm using it all the time with my colleagues. I want Confluence and Jira users to have the same capability.

What it does

You can start instant conversation with your colleagues, while not losing the context.

Confluence:

  • use /huddle macro while editing Confluence pages to start audio conversation with other collaborators
  • after the page is saved, while you are viewing it, screen share functionality is available as well

Jira:

  • Huddle panel added to Jira ticket page

Huddle in both products allows you to:

  • Mute/unmute your microphone
  • See live list of participants
  • Share your screen
  • See other participant screen share: mini preview, picture in picture, or full screen
  • See speaking indicator on each participant

How we built it

This app was assembled with Atlassian Forge and Dolby.io. I took my other hackathon entry, which worked only inside Jira, and converted it into a cross product app. The idea was to make it work both in Jira and Confluence. An abstraction was added to the code, so that the audio conversation room can be attached either to Jira ticket in web panel, or to Confluence page via macro embed.

Challenges we ran into

Confluence macro editing experience is not fully aligned with my initial concept. The user is not able to interact with the macro preview.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It was a straight forward project! I could easily adapt my previous implementation to the new use case in Confluence.

What we learned

  • Confluence macro module
  • Cross product apps in Forge

What's next?

This functionality might as well become a native feature in Jira&Confluence, but assuming it continues to be an app I would like to make the experience even more seamless. Adding conversation controls while in editing mode could be achieved using the macro configuration.

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