Davin Studer Expert

Using panels on a page is a great way to structure your page content to make it look less cluttered and more professional. One great feature of the code block macro that I wish was part of the panel macro is the ability to collapse the content section. For instance, you may have a page in Confluence that serves as a…

It looks like $pageManager was removed from the default velocity context so it is no longer available for use in user macros. This has broken a ton of our user macros. Anyone know of a way to get it back or something that can do similar function as it? We used $pageManager.getPage() a lot.

As a kid I loved reading super hero comic books and the renewed interest these days in super heroes with all the Marvel and DC movies is pretty exciting to me. So, if you're like me today is all about Avengers: Infinity War (which comes out today). In light of that, today's Friday Fun is about super heroes. So, here's the…

Have you ever wanted to create tabs on your page? Well, of course you have! Tabs are a great way of organizing a page to keep it looking uncluttered. Below are two user macros you can create that will give you the ability to put tabs on your Confluence pages. How it looks in the editor How it looks when viewing the page…

I am developing a Confluence Data Center app and I need to persist some data. I would rather not have to create my own REST API to store a couple values so I went looking through the built-in REST endpoints and found these endpoints. /rest/api/content/{id}/property /rest/api/content/{id}/property/{key}…

So, I'm somewhat new to ScriptRunner. I'm liking it though. Especially the behaviours section. I'm currently trying to write an initializer that would hide/show certain fields on the issue edit screen based on the current status in the workflow. It it possible to get the current status of an issue in a behaviour? Thanks.

I seem to remember seeing somewhere a way to craft a search URL for Confluence that will explain why the results were returned the way that they are. I think it output some JSON showing how the ranking worked out. For the life of me I cannot seem to find the URL again. Anybody know what I am referring to?

I like reading documentation that is short and concise. But you know what, sometimes (lot's of times) long documentation happens. It's a sad fact about the world we live in. I was approached the other day by one of my users who said that she would like to have some way to quickly get back to the top of a document. Their…

We've been using Confluence for years and have found it to be a great place to document our service applications. Recently, we started using Jira. The first project we created was an operations log to track tasks, changes, and incidents for all things IT. The second project we created was to track our physical…

I've seen lot's of documentation and tutorials for how to create issue links to other issues in Jira. However, I'm not finding any documentation for how to create a link to a Confluence page with the REST API. Does anyone have any experience doing this?

Our version: Jira 7.12.0 We have a Jira project that we use to manage our IT assets (servers, workstations, network gear, etc.) With most of our projects having a user auto-watch the issues they create makes sense ... it doesn't in this project. So, I am trying to write a script to un-watch the issue in a post function…

I've got a Custom script validator that is testing multiple fields prior to transitioning the issue. If a field fails validation I append error text to a string that I throw as a InvalidInputException if the string is not empty. However, the error that the users sees does not have line breaks. All the error messages are…

How in the world do you get the Ace Seeker badge. I've click on this on the front page exactly 3.2 gazillion times ... give or take a gazillion.

VSCode has grown over the last few years into a pretty slick IDE and I see that Atlassian has given VSCode a little bit of love by providing integrations with Jira and Bitbucket. There are a couple of pages for setting up IDEA and Netbeans to work with the Atlassian SDK but sadly nothing for VSCode. So, I ask the…

If you remove an issue from a Portfolio plan is there an easy way to pull it back in?

The ripples of COVID-19 are going to be felt for a long time to come. Already, things such as air pollution numbers going down, WFH skyrocketing, and general social hygiene rules changing are all examples of the far reaching impact of this virus. I would imagine there will be other ripples effects such as cold and flu…

I have turned on the access log in Confluence as per the KB article How to Enable User Access Logging. However, the log does not contain the URL querystring (anything after the ?). Anybody know if there is an option in the log4j.properties to add in the the querystring as well?

There are so many things I have learned since I first got involved with the Atlassian Community (formerly Atlassian Answers). For the Vulcans among you who can mind-meld, simply place your face against your screen and I'll upload them to you. For all the rest of you, here are three that stand out to me. ; ) 1. Don't…

According to the Jira Align pricing page the lowest tier that I see is for 120 Jira users. is that indeed the smallest pricing their that there is for Jira Align?

We are currently using Azure Dev Ops to do our agile planning. We are switching to Jira Software. So, I am porting the data over. However, when I look at the scrum board the cards are HUGE. Does anyone know of a way to make the scrum board more compact to fit more cards on the screen at a time. We have the board swim lanes…

User macros are pretty great. There are so many awesome things that you can accomplish with them. This is a user macro I wrote a few years ago to take a CSV file attached to a page and render it out as a table. If you would like to know more about how this user macro works check out part 2 of this article. I had to split…

One of the best and most overlooked aspects of Confluence is user macros. There are so many useful scenarios for user macros. Here are some: * Templated snippets * Overriding built in macros example with task list report * Quickly creating your own macros * Inserting arbitrary html/css/javascript into a page without having…

Update: This Article is specifically for Jira Server Edition, not the cloud offering. In my previous post Remove Jira Issue Attachments by MD5 Hash (which you should read before this one as I show how to set up the Script Listener as some other shtuff.) I showed how to remove attachments from JIRA based on the MD5 hash of…