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Is it possible to develop application based on Confluence platform?

Khon October 30, 2017

Hi all,

We want to develop a Portal application based on Confluence (so that our company internal users can interact with both Confluence and this application in a single page view of browser) with below features:

- the application has 5+ screens in which user can read / write data. Thus we need to define our own database tables

- the application reads data from LDAP

- the application wants to aggregate the list of Confluence pages / blogs that a user has subscribed

 

Questions:

- is it a good idea to implement the application in Confluence? Why and why not?

- if yes, then could you give me some guideline / documentation / sample codes for that? (I saw some sample codes for Confluence Macro, but it's simple for an application need)

 

Additional notes

- another direction of this problem is to build the application from scratch and use iframe to include that application into the Confluence. But it's not cost-effective to build from scratch and I heard that integration between application and Confluence also costs a lot.

- I did Google to find some guidelines, but it seems not valid to my need

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Domenico Manzo [Actonic]
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October 30, 2017

Confluence is a good platform for any size of customizations. A lot of huge add-ons based on Confluence API have many pages, complex logic, rich UI, etc.

Everything that you want to add to Confluence is a "module". New pages are "xwork" modules, REST services - REST modules, etc.
How to add a new "page module": https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-plugin-module-types/xwork-webwork-module

But it may be a real challenge to build Confluence add-on without Java development skills.

Khon October 30, 2017

Hi @Domenico Manzo [Actonic],

Thank you very much for the hints. 

Could you please give me some hints / guidelines about creating database tables in Confluence so that my application will read / write to that DB tables?

It seems like difficult to find this topic in the documentation. Many thanks!

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Domenico Manzo [Actonic]
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October 31, 2017

@Khon You can create as many tables as you need. Confluence uses special ORM for new tables in DB called Active Objects

Here is a good start point https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/atlassian-platform-common-components/active-objects/getting-started-with-active-objects

Khon November 1, 2017

Hi @Domenico Manzo [Actonic],

Thank you for the inputs! I will check it out.

Khon November 1, 2017

HI @Domenico Manzo [Actonic],

One more question, is it possible to define a batchjob in Confluence? Any documentation for that? The Google result doesn't show any clue about it. Thank you!

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