Davin Studer Expert

Have you ever clicked edit on a Confluence page only to be presented with a screen that more or less looks like a jail cell with nested macro upon nested macro in a maze of indistinguishable grey borders? Cold sweats ensue as you realize you need to pick the correct spot to add your new content and if you pick the wrong…

I'm Davin Studer. I am a Community Leader and I hail from Vancouver (Not BC), Washington (Not DC). I'm a Systems Engineer at a medical clinic and I love answering questions here on the Community site.

I learned that Atlassian gives back 1% of it's profit to the community and has established a foundation that today has over $100 million dollars in it. I think that is a fantastic and phenomenal thing for a company to do ... to give back to the community.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the PDX AUG meetings that I have been able to attend. Is there any plans for the next one in this shiny new year of 2019?

My team has recently begun the process of adopting the Scrum framework for how we manage our work. If you go on the web there are copious sites that talk about Scrum ... what it is and how to do it. However, most of those resources refer to Scum with regards to software development. The uses for Scrum within the software…

Update: So, the whole editing the script and having others put in MD5 hashes part ... yeah, that went over like a lead balloon. Here is an updated version that is much easier to administer. Also, most of this article is still relevant as it shows how to set up the Script Listener. So, still read this one first. Disclaimer:…

In part one of this article Confluence Template for Service Applications I showed how we used Confluence templates and Jira to keep track all the details for our service applications such as; servers, installation configuration, down times, upgrades, and disruptions. I promised some code ... very little code and here it…

I have a multi user custom field called "System Owners" and I want to write a filter that will pull back any issues where any members of the System Owners field are not in a certain group. I tried the below JQL. "System Owners" not in membersOf(the group) At first I thought this was working because I got results, but then…

Does anyone know of any add-ons that will allow you to export Confluence content based on a given date/time. So, the PDF would not be generated based on how the content looks today, but based on how it looked at the date/time specified. We keep our policies and procedures in Confluence and from time to time questions arise…

This is part two of an article about creating a user macro that renders out an attached CSV file as a table. Part one of the article has the code for this user macro. I cannot put the code here as well because I am limited to 20,000 characters. So, if you want to follow along I would recommend copying the user macro…

We have found that many of our users are inadvertently watching the home page of the wiki. It turns out this is because many of them come to the home page and then attempt to search for something else. However, if they are not in the search box and start their search with "w" then they start watching the page. There is a…

I'm using the SQL for Confluence add-on and I have the below data source in my server.xml file for accessing SQL data from that add-on. I'm running a server side trace on the MS SQL server and I notice that my wiki server is pinging my MS SQL server several times every second. I realize that this probably has nothing to do…

Is there any downside to having the attachment storage be in the db as opposed to the file system. As far as backup/restore and refreshing our test instance just having it all in the db would make those processes much easier, but if there are performance hits I wouldn't necessarily want to do that. FYI, our install is on…

Anybody know of a plugin that will allow for inserting snippets of markup into a page? A template or blueprint isn't really what I am looking for here. I have a page that will have a repeating block of content and being able to add another block via a snippet would be awesome. Maybe a plugin doesn't exists for this and…

I know how to install and uninstall plugins through the interface. However, I am having trouble removing the Confluence IM Presence Plugin. I can uninstall it through the interface and it will dissappear, but whenever I reset the server it just springs back up. I have gone through the steps on this page ...…

Confluence ships with the 1.2.2 jtds driver. This was released in 2007 and there is a newer one 1.3.1 that was released in 2013. Does anyone know if there is a reason Confluence ships with 1.2.2? Has anyone tried using the 1.3.1 driver? If so, thoughts? Thanks.

Does anybody know a way to change the email text that is generated when someone follows another user? I've look around to see if I can find a .vm file or something like that that has an emaqil template but I am having no luck. I want to put in some explantion in the email to let user know what it means that someone is…

Anybody know if it is ok to restart the Confluence service before the index rebuild completes? We are wanting to give the virtual server and jvm more memory but the re-index is going very slowly. We want to do this irrespective of the re-index ... the machine just needs more but I'd rather not wait a day or two more to add…

Anybody know if it is possible to do colspan in wiki syntax with Confluence?