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Export to Jira
One click turns your VibeMap plan into a Jira board — features become Epics, stories become Stories, acceptance criteria become checklists, and your schema becomes a Confluence page. · Optional
Use this when your team runs delivery in Jira and you want your VibeMap spec to land as real, trackable work instead of a document someone has to re-key by hand. Skip it if you hand off entirely through your IDE agent (MCP) and don't use a Jira board.
The mapping
VibeMap uses a fixed, predictable mapping between its artifacts and standard Jira / Confluence types:
| VibeMap | Jira / Confluence |
|---|---|
| Feature | Epic (business value, complexity, and effort written into the description) |
| User story | Story under its feature's Epic |
| Acceptance criteria | Checklist (task list) inside the Story description |
| Priority | Jira priority (High / Medium / Low) |
| Database schema | Confluence page (one section per table), linked from the Epics |
Each exported issue carries a vibemap label, and story summaries follow the canonical "As a <role>, I want to <goal>" form (Jira caps summaries at 255 characters, so longer titles are truncated).
Connecting Atlassian
- Open your project's Build tab → Code Preview and click Export to Jira.
- Click Connect Atlassian and approve access for your Jira site. VibeMap requests Jira work and Confluence content scopes; your tokens are encrypted at rest and only ever used with your own account.
Exporting
- Pick the destination Jira project from the picker (it must already exist on your site).
- Click Export. The run happens in the background — the dialog shows progress and a link to your board when it finishes.
Behind the scenes VibeMap creates the schema Confluence page first (so Epics can link to it), then creates an Epic per feature and a Story per user story, attaching acceptance criteria as a checklist on each Story.
💡 Tip: Re-exporting is safe. VibeMap remembers which Jira issue each feature and story maps to and updates them in place instead of creating duplicates. The Confluence schema page is regenerated on every export, so edit your schema in VibeMap — not in Confluence.
Syncing status back from Jira (beta)
You can close the loop so that moving a Story on your Jira board updates that story's status in VibeMap. A Story dragged into an In Progress column becomes In Progress; dragged to Done, it completes. Jira's backlog/to-do states are left untouched, since VibeMap's statuses are richer there.
To enable it, ask us to turn on the webhook for your site, or register this URL in Jira administration for the jira:issue_updated event:
https://vibemap.ai/api/webhooks/jira?secret=…
⚡ Power user: Status sync is one-directional today (Jira → VibeMap) and covers user-story status only — field-level two-way sync is planned.
⚡ Power-user hints
- The export is idempotent by design: run it after each planning change and your board stays in step without a pile of duplicate Epics.
- Priority only maps when your Jira project uses the default High / Medium / Low scheme; custom schemes fall back to the project default, which you can adjust on the board afterwards.
↔ The traditional way
A lead normally reads a PRD and hand-creates Epics, Stories, sub-tasks, and acceptance-criteria checklists one by one — hours of copy-paste that drifts out of date the moment the plan changes. VibeMap generates the whole hierarchy in one pass and re-syncs it in place, so the board is a live projection of the spec rather than a stale snapshot of it.
Notes and limits
- Sites without Confluence still export fine — the schema page is simply skipped.
- Jira summary length is capped at 255 characters; longer story titles are truncated.
- Custom priority schemes without High / Medium / Low fall back to the project default.
What's next
- Get your plan ready to export → 10.1 Prepare for development.
- Or build the app in-app instead → 14.1 App Builder.
- Hand off to your own AI agent → 11.1 Handoff overview.