Simple piece of included Javascript not working for me :(

Question

Hi, I have a simple Javascript. alert('hello world!'); I have saved this in a file called simple.js in /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/includes/resources My 'HTML Macro' contains: My Web Page Random Text...

The inline alert is presented by Confluence but the one that should come from the included Javascript simple.js is not. I am not a Javascript expert so I could be doing something stupid, but the same code on a standalone browser works fine. Any advice or pointers as to why it might not be working would be appreciated. Note that Iogo.png displays fine...done as a sanity check to verify I had the path correct. The console debugger does not show anything obvious work either. Regards Alan

Timothy · Answer

If that's the case, you should consider writing a Confluence plugin to consume the endpoint that you are talking about and display the output as a functionality in Confluence.

Alan Whooley · Answer

Cheers. Thanks for you inputs on this.

To explain some more, the 3rd party tool produces an index.html that references a library of Javascript and  css. The data is then actually stored in a .zip file that the Javascript extracts and displays through the index.html.

My hope was that I could place the library of Javascript and css in a central location untouched, place the index.html code in a HTML macro and update its references to the Javascript library to the new Confluence based location. How I would handle the .zip file of data would be a whole different question that I'd need to figure that out too! As mentioned, I don't want to edit the Javascript library if at all possible. Editing the index.html code is a trivial task, but having to edit multiple files in the library would be painful,and hopefully avoidable.

From what I can see I can get the Confluence to pick up the style sheets from the central location but not the Javascript for some reason. Hence the trivial piece of code above I am using as a test. If I can't get this to execute I've no chance with the more complete solution.

Best Regards

Alan

Timothy · Answer

You can, of course, code your Javascript to only act if the URL matches your page.