Anyone else noticed office excel macro disabled when disabling the widget connector macro?

Hugh Bathurst

"Anyone else noticed office excel macro disabled when disabling the widget connector macro?"

We just disabled the widget connector macro, and WebDAV plugin, (due to a security warning recently received). We just noticed our office excel macros are not usable (we see "Unknown macro:viewxls" instead). Right now we're thinking we need to turn one or both of these back on (so not to interrupt our users) but better would be to find a way to only disable widget connector and WebDAV plugin so any thoughts welcome.

Daniel Eads

Hey Hugh,

The Office macros have a hidden dependency on the WebDAV connector plugin. Disabling the WebDAV plugin will also disable the office macros (viewdoc, viewxls, viewppt, viewpdf). We do not recommend re-enabling the Office macros (without upgrading Confluence to a patched version) as this will also re-enable the WebDAV connector.

If you are unable to get a Confluence upgrade scheduled soon and need the previews working again, we do have instructions for bulk-updating the Office macros to the new File Preview macro  via a few SQL commands.

Cheers,
Daniel | Atlassian Support