Issue: Atlassian Connect entry point "atl.general" is overlapped by the new navigation sidebar

[shess]

Hi Atlassian,

we have faced an issue when using our connect app alongside the New Navigation and Atlassian’s Company Hub.

Our connect app uses the web entry point "atl.general" to load content into it. It will typically be resized automatically by Atlassian, when a user resizes the Atlassian Sidebar.

But when the connect app is used alongside the New Navigation and Atlassian's Company hub, the Atlasian Sidebar will overlap the connect content, when a user resizes the Atlassian Sidebar.

See the screenshot:

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Use a Confluence instance with the New Navigation UI

2. Enable Atlassian’s new Company Hub (a Confluence Premium feature).

3. Install the connect app: Navigation Menus for Confluence 

4. Navigate to the configuration page of the app and enable the demo menu.

5. Go to the Company Hub and resize the sidebar.

6. Observed behaviour: The connect app's navigation content does not resize and will be overlapped.

Please investigate this issue. Let me know if you need any additional information.

Best regards,
Sven

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi @shess 

You should definitely open a support ticket with Atlassian:

https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

If you have users experiencing it and contacting you, encourage them to open a support ticket also. 

[shess]

Hi @Kristian Klima

thanks for your clarification. 

I first reported this to Atlassian Support, and they referred me here because support is not responsible for beta features. :-/

[Kristian Klima]

@shess 

Actually - https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/changelog/#CHANGE-2097 

Developers using any of the deprecated Connect extension points will need to instead use one of the following extension points that we are not deprecating and are making available for use in the Editing experience, which will give them more overall visibility to customers.

• Forge

  • confluence:contentBylineItem

  • confluence:contentAction

  • confluence:contextMenu

• Connect

  • system.content.action/secondary

  • contentBylineItem

  • system.content.action

  • system.content.action/primary

  • atl.general

  • system.content.action/modify

  • page.view.selection/action-panel

  • system.content.action/marker

[shess]

Hi @Kristian Klima

thanks for the quick reply.

We are the vendor of the app and we are using this entry point to place a custom navigation for our clients. It's crucial for our app to rely on this entry point.

Do I understand you right, that with the New Navigation this official entry point "atl.general" won't be available anymore for App Developers?

Best Regards,
Sven  

[Kristian Klima]

@shess 

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood that you're the vendor. 

I can't answer the question on availability of end points - I'm just an Atlassian customer and an app user who happened to be on the receiving end of the update and triggered the investigation into the matter...

Contacting Atlassian might be the best course of action. Also, I think AURA (formatting macros) app by Appanvil (a Seibert affiliated app vendor) is affected too so there might be some knowledge on the matter within the Seibert group.

[Kristian Klima]

Hello @shess 

The recent UI update, rolled to sites participating in the early acces program for Live Docs/Edits, affect any app that had buttons in the white space above the page title.

Basically, buttons etc. disappeared. 

The vendors of the affected apps that I'm using move those elements to the page menu or to the breadcrums under the page title.

If you're an app user who was switched to the new UI, I'd contact Atlassian support to opt out, or just follow links listed in the answer to this question: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Change-in-Interface-on-Our-Confluence-Space/qaq-p/2960524

And work with the vendor to let them know what's happening.