Bill Bailey Expert

There is no way I know of to change a space key. The name can be changed, but the key stays fixed troughout the life of the space. You are correct that the only way to "change" the space key would be to copy the space to a new space with the desired key.

Would the page properties macro set do what you need to do: page-properties-macro

As a long-time user of Scroll PDF, I can say it is the only way to get professionally formatted PDFs out of Confluence (using CSS and Velocity). But it is paid, We do take advantage that they provide a REST link the will export a specific page root using a predefind templates and export schemes.

Yes, you can access label content for a page, or set of pages. Take a look at this old user macro to get an idea of what you can do: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Related+Content?_ga=2.43230693.1769340653.1494599740-427558220.1450647509 Also, here a newer user macro to use as reference:…

Not sure of your use model, but I will give you some suggestions. First, I don't know of anyway to do exactly what you want with a user macro or plugin -- all models I see take some input, then render content on page display. I haven't seen any that would basically replicate keystroke entry, and would operate fire-once.…

Then you are forced to have the user select the space key so that you have that info. Not sure how you trap invalid combinations. There maybe a way to extract the key data from the page id with a java method. Maybe this will give you enough hints: https://gist.github.com/chids/870528

The easiest way would be to create a user macro that formats text with a classed p tag (or inline style directive if you don't want to do CSS). Then the text inside the macro could be bolded, etc., but will appear in a monospaced font when displayed. Now the monospaced font you picked has to have bold and italic variants…

I use the multiexcerpt macro (paid but cheap). It makes it much easier to do transclusions, IMHO.

What exactly do the $paramip look like when you select a "foriegn page"? You may want to add a debug help in the macro to just display the contents of that variable to see what it is returning. Maybe the space key infor is prepended? I haven't done this type of page navigation before. As your macro is now, it lets a user…

First, speaking as a tech writer, why on Earth would you want to have an h7? Second, there is no h7 HTML tag. Why you have trouble controlling it. But assuming that is not enough to stop you, you have two options, both not pretty. * Create a user macro that wraps text in a classed p tag (or h6 if you want it recognized in…

Well I can't give you an answer, but some suggestions on how to solve this. I would write a user macro that displays panel macro (or note), if a label is present on the page (fairly straightforward). And I will point you to another answer that should give you a starting point on how to read labels on a page.…

OK, first, I don't think answers allows profanity, so maybe lay off the use of organogram. You can create images with maps (can be a PDF),or you can create a grid of images, and then in the Confluence image properties, set a link for that image when clicked. So you would need one image per space. Or check out this plugin:…

There is no native graphical editor. If you don't want to buy a plug in, you need to draw whatever you want externally, save as PNG, JPEG, GIF, etc. then insert in a page. For our docs, we use Illustrator and save as PNG.

Well being a decade-long user of FrameMaker, and Illustrator, I know of no way to do what you want. The workflow I have adopted is the create the drawings in Illustrator, then export to PNG and attach/embed that file in Confluence. The I use Scroll PDF to generate the PDF. The results are "acceptable" I would say.…

Not that I am aware of. Even if you develop a plugin, you need to assign the macro to one of the current categories. If Atlassian were to allow that, you can imagine every vendor wanting to define their own category.

Well small, maybe. He didn't state how large his is. I have used it without issues on instances of 1000 to 2000 pages. And with full-site export, I mean from the backup and restore tab in the Confluence admin console.

I would suggest a fairly bullet-proof mechanism: * Spin up a new instance of Confluence on a new server using a dev license. * Do a full-site export of the existing server * Import the full-site back up to the new server * Make needed changes for the plugins, base URL, etc. * Decommission the old server. * Move the…

Try this workaround. Add a page at root (so it doesn't appear in the left-hand ToC) and set its visibility to allow anonymous view (yes the page can be viewed, but when it is at doc root level, they would have to know where it is). Place all your excerpts on the special page. Include the excerpts on both the internal and…

I know of no way to do this. You would need a macro that sits inside the source – and no way I know to do that. So I would say impossible.

Every page within confluence is assigned a page ID. You can see this when you edit an article, are in attachment or page information view (under Tools menu). It appears at the end of the URL in the form "pageId=1146905". Would this page ID work?

As a tech writer, that is an absolute no-no. When you try to PDF content from a collection of pages, having some of the pages have poor hierarchy, can screw up the final results. Also, if you later want to have in-page ToC that stops at a certain level, you will get inconsistent results. I would opt to have custom CSS to…

Funny. That was why I went with a BRIX to have a local testing server.

Have you got it to work? When I did it, it was sooooooo slooooow that is was unusable. And the newer versions of Confluence want 2G+ min.

Basically you can't as the Pi doesn't have enough main memory for the current version. I did try with an older version and it installed and started to come up, but again, the Pi is hobbled by having so little memory.

Yes, if you make them space admins for their spaces. But just one style sheet per space.

The only way I can think of to solve this type if issue is through a workflow. I have used comalatech workflow in the past for managing complex review processes, and you can use it to set page permissions based on events, assigning them to individuals or groups. Would take some work to write the workflow, but could then be…

Just wanted to let you know that they still work – another data point. But work on converting your scripts.

Ah, well I have made extensive use of metadata before and don't know of anyway to get that info.

Doesn't the user have to edit the page to change the metadata value? If so, then the change occurs on page save, so the save time = the metadata update time.

Well there is this tutorial, BUT not sure if it still works with Confluence 5.x (a bit of warning, many of the Confluence plugin tutorials have not been updated recently, and are often incomplete) https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/tutorials/adding-an-option-to-the-editor-insert-menu If this method still works, you…