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I am trying to build a JIRA plugin for a customer. I am using webwork1 actions, but the atl.admin renderer will not render in the Velocity files. Thoughts? This has also been posted in the forums...

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• jira-development
• webwork

Hi, I am using old plugin which is designed for JIRA 3.13.1 to create users. Now I have made some API changes to work it in JIRA 4.3.3. According to 4.3.3 docs, http://confluence.atlassian.com/di...

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• jira-development

UPM uses a plethora of media types in its REST API, e.g. application/vnd.atl.plugins.install.complete+json. Where can I find documentation on these?

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• jira-development

In our custom web application we are using Crowd for authentication, along with Crowd's ability to send a 'reset password' email, which takes the user to the Crowd UI where they enter their new passw...

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• crowd-development

I want to change the way this file appears: /pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=SPACE Is there a vm/vmd file in /confluence/decorators that governs this page? What is the best way to go about th...

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• confluence
• confluence-development
• velocity

I am trying to use the XML-RPC api in order to manipulate some pages on the remote Confluence server. The problem is that the server uses a custom Single Sign On solution. As the remote API uses the ...

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• confluence-development
• remote-api
• sso
• xml-rpc

I'm trying to upgrade my gadget that uses the datepicker from jQuery UI. Was easier prior to 4.3. I got the field to work but I need to know what resource to include to get the css. By the way, w...

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• gadget-development
• jira-development

I have been using ManagerFactory in my plugins to flush the cache after create a subtask and getting an issue type ManagerFactory.getConstantsManager ().getIssueType(issType) issType is a string ...

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• jira
• jira-development

I'm just adding this question to create a few tags.

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• gadget-development
• ide-connector
• integration
• jira-software-development

I want to spare my users from thinking about a pagetitle and rather not publishing a topic. Pages should be created with a defined prefix (e.g. FAQ) followed by defined numbering (e.g. 3 digits FAQ00...

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• api
• confluence
• confluence-development

When building a plugin or theme it's good to know which version of Velocity Confluence is running. I found an article about migrating to Velocity 1.5 for Confluence 2.8 (somewhere in 2008), but cou...

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• confluence-development

Whats the difference between the ADMINISTER and SYSTEM_ADMIN permission in JIRAs API?

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• jira
• jira-development

I have a sandbox instance that I would like to refresh everyday. Can this be scripted and if so, how?

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• confluence-development

One of the things that is great about Atlassian plugin development has been the community of developers that open-sourced their plugins and other extensions. These examples are of great value and hel...

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• confluence-development
• crowd-development
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From com.atlassian.jira.security.Permissions: /** * Permission to administer JIRA */ public static final int ADMINISTER = 0; /** * Permission to be a System Admin of J...

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• jira-development
• permission

I would like to include the bamboo build number in my plugin's version string. What is the best way of doing this? I would like my version to read, for example, v1.0.0#12, where this is version 1.0...

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• app
• bamboo-development
• build

I am writing a xwork plugin module where I need to check if the current user has a admin permissions for a specific project. How can I do this?

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• api
• jira
• jira-development
• security

When building a plugin you can extend almost every part of Confluence, but is there also a way to add something to the dashboard?

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• confluence-development

<atlassian-plugin key="${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId}" name="${project.name}"> When I use this type of reference in my atlassian-plugin.xml descriptor it does not read the values...

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• app
• atlassian-plugin.xml
• atlassian-sdk

I understand caching data works fine in a clustered environment if the caching API is used, is there a cluster-safe way to persist data currently? It seems Active Objects would be a good option, but ...

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• active-objects
• confluence-development
• data-center
• persistence

Is there an interface equivalent to com.atlassian.jira.extension.Startable in Confluence? This interface allows Components to be notified of when the JIRA application has started. (After the plugin...

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• confluence-development

Are there any guidelines as to what my plugin should log, and at what level? The logs can be really useful while I am debugging, but most of them are useless once the plugin is working. Is there an...

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• confluence-development
• jira-development
• log

How do I get the list of all users within a Confluence plugin?

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• confluence-development

Is there any place to seek help, or to ask questions about development?

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• confluence-development
• jira-development

There are lots of plugins at http://plugins.atlassian.com and many of them have source code at http://studio.plugins.atlassian.com Which ones do you think are good examples of creating a new custom...

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• jira
• jira-development