How to track dependencies in Confluence

Question

Hi,

I'm considering moving internal documentation from self-hosted dokuwiki with few add-ins to Confluence. Content describes dependencies of different internal systems e.g.:

* service A depends on:* service X
* service Y

* service B depends on* service X
* service A

Each service has own page. I'd like that page to include automatically generated summary of depending/dependent services.

How can i add that type of information to Confluence? I'd like to add on service A that it depends on service X and do not have to mention manually on service X that it's required by Service A. Recursive resolution of n-th level dependencies is not needed.

In an ideal world i'd like to avoid any additional plug-ins to achieve this.

thank you!

pawel.kudzia · Answer

i did not find any in confluence, we're using dokuwiki with data plugin and some custome PHP code.

Andrew Darrant · Answer

Hi @pawel.kudzia  - I am looking to do something the same - I was wondering what solution you came up with?

Shannon S · Answer

Hi Pawel,

That seems like you want to dynamically generate content in Confluence. This might be possible if you develop something yourselves, in-house.

Unfortunately, with Confluence Cloud, this makes things a bit more difficult, since you can't add your own scripts or write User Macros. You'll need to work on an add-on for something like that. I recommend starting by having a look at our Confluence Cloud developer site, and if you still have trouble, use the resources page to ask any questions.

I'm sorry that we can't help you better on this end, but it's a rather complicated task and it would be best suited for a development query.

Regards,

Shannon