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6. As a final confirmation, this tells you that you will now be taken to JIRA where you'll need to authenticate using your JIRA admin credentials and it will then redirect you back to Confluence to continue with this setup.
7. Once taken to JIRA, please enter the JIRA admin credentials, confirm it and then you will be redirected back to Confluence as a reciprocal link is created.
At this point, you have successfully created an Applink between Confluence and JIRA. Next step is to "Edit" it and set up authentication.
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