Bill Bailey Expert

As long as they are a part of the confluence-users grouped AND that group has synched with Confluence, then you can mention them.

You can control all the look and feel via your own CSS. A good place to start is here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html

And JIRA is in better shape than Confluence. I have often come across similar pages in two different trees. Not sure what is up with that. And I know that some of the docs haven't been updated in years (can't see the date anymore with the Viewport added). But the link thing is perplexing. It seems to defeat some of the…

Other than creating your own plugin, you could use comalatech workflows to construct a workflow that triggers on page creation which can set editing and view restrictions. It could also be used to send an email to an admin. Of course, you could build a more complex workflow with it. I have written some complex doc…

Are you trying to enter a link in a Confluence page to anchor on the same page? I ask because Confluence handles the translation between the link you entered (using the Advance tab of Links) and how it must be displayed for it to work on the page.

Theoretically yes, if you use the remotepublishing plugin from Comalatech. I have used it one direction to publish from an internal server to an external public server. Not sure I would try bidirectional as collisions would be an issue, and this publishing would be on-demand, triggered by event. This plugin also requires…

Yeah, are you talking about two independent servers A and B, where an update made on one, is mirrored in the other? Which brings me to the second question: why, given that you can access a single server from anywhere in the world. Now if you want a one-way link, say between an internal private server and external public…

I see Java, Java FX, and Javascript in the list of formats.

Hello Stefan, It is a two-part solution. I have a plugin that builds a REST connection to a Bugzilla instance (set in the admin console). REST calls are returned as Java objects that are available in the Velocity context. Then I have a set of user macro: * Bug link, that can display one or more bugs from a list as a set of…

I have developed a Bugzilla connector that makes REST calls to a Bugzilla 5.x server, plus a set of macros to enter bug links, or display a list of search results in a table. If you are interested to learn more, let me know.

He is asking about Confluence. Who added what label doesn't show up in page history. Adding a label does not cause the page to increment revision (at last as until 5.9.7). I think your only option is the user macro @Stephen Deutsch provided below.

For anyone stumbling upon this later, I would make use of the multi-excerpt plug-in (very inexpensive), then you could add a named excerpt that points to the a page that contains dynamic content to a column in a section in your standard template. That way, the excerpt is always on any page you create from the template, but…

And having the user enter the value in a user macro body won't work?

Not sure exactly what you want to do with the spreadsheet, but I often see people trying to use tools outside of Confluence that can be more easily resolved inside of Confluence. I have used the customware reporting plugin to generate sophisticated spreadsheet like reports within Confluence. Takes some work to set up and…

We ran into this issue awhile back. And turning off some of the modules, like quicksearch (type ahead) and some of the user modules (I forget which, but the mention would be a good one to disable) can do a pretty good job. Not 100%, but makes it harder.

I would just echo that space permissions is the way to go, and segregate out your customers to different LDAP groups from your internal staff (note, everyone has to be a member of confluence-users). Then you have good control on rights within a space based on group membership, on a page, and at the space level. Don't try…

Two possible solutions: * Try different browsers. There are differences in how Chrome and Firefox work with tables in Confluence * Install the free source editor plugin. Then you can edit the page source, and copy the XHTML for the table. Then you can paste it into the source view of the destination page.

Hi Stacy, Having used Confluence for 5+ years for documentation (plus set up systems for multiple clients), I can share some insights. If your primary delivery model is PDF, then you MUST get Scroll PDF Exporter. It will allow you to generate professional looking PDFs with branding, custom footers, doc-specific…

This is in reference to K15t velocity templates, but could give you a clue of how to address them (I haven't tried this). I am assuming that it will display the value on the page. From the metadata plugin, there is the following method: getMetadataValues(String token, String spaceKey, String pageName)…

If you want to display data on the same page it is stored, the only solution I know of (and have used) is via the metadata plugin.Since it is free (and has been for years), that is the best/easiest solution. Where I got the syntax was from here:…

I think it is of the form: $pageProperty.from("User") where User is the key. And $pageProperty.from("User", "123") when you have macros with IDs. How to access from another page, I am not clear on, but maybe this gets you started and you can report back?

Hi Sherree, I am afraid that the answer is "depends." This is the type of thing that requires interviewing stakeholders to understand what their needs are, what they would like to do, and then having an expert come back with a proposal on how to structure Confluence, what plugins to use, and set exceptions correctly. This…

My instinct is to just assign each team a space, then set the left-hand navigation to Page tree display. Lastly, on the space home page, insert a search box macro, restricted to that space. You wont have a display showing headings on the page, but you will have a restricted page tree and search box. With search, nothing…

I am curious about the use model.

Yes upon destination page refresh. That is the whole point.

After the support.zip is created, the system responds with the exact path. But in order to retrieve it, you have to access the server at the OS level and have permissions to read that file.

Yeah, I agree. When doing documentation, I often have to break up pages, but then I end up with multiple copies of images attached to pages.

I have a customer using this macro, and they do love it. Although most of the email traffic is caused by OCD users constantly saving pages after every edit rather than trust the draft mechanism ;-) I leave pages open for the entire editing session, which a) cuts down on the email traffic and b) still notifies watchers of…

One issue that you can run into is when you start running low on disk space. If you have not turned off the auto backups, they will keep creating backups, filling up your disk. If you are on an instance (VM for example) with limited disk space, you can run into strange things happening as you hit the limit. So if re-index…

The first thing I do with any installation for a customer is update the CSS. I change the fonts, colors, sizes of all the headings, correct spacing issue of lists, of H1 followed by H2, etc. With a good CSS, you can come up with a better look and feel. And for special cases, I create user macros to hold special formats…