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You have several methods of altering the look and feel of Confluence:
Yes this is possible using the SQL plugin for Confluence which displays the result table or values from the SQL query on a Confluence page. Data from single or multiple results sets are formatted, usually as a table, for display. Multiple SQL statements (semi-colon separated) can be specified within a single sql macro body (subject to support provided by specific databases).
The GanttProject plugin enables generating and rendering Gantt chart from MSProject file attached to a Confluence page.
This would be possible by using the Include Page Macro which allows you to include a Confluence page from the same instance in another Confluence page. Hence you could have a separate page for each question and restrict the editing of those pages to particular users. You could then include those pages into another page which others users could edit to write the answers to the questions. Please note that there is a limitation in that users would still be able to remove the Include page macro from the page with the answers, however they would not be able to edit the questions themselves.
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You can now embed multimedia files into a Confluence page as as easily as you can an image. Confluence supports these formats:
Other types of files can be used, but may require the specification of the "classid", "codebase" and "pluginspage" properties in order to be recognised by web browsers. If you get an error 'Unable to embed content of type application/octet-stream', this means the mime-type is not being correctly recognised. You can add a type parameter to the embedded markup to override the auto-detected mime-type. See below for an example. To embed a multimedia file, Attach the file to the page. You can then include it as you would include an image, like this: !filename.mov! UsageTo play .avi files, you require to specify the dimensions and type. !test.avi|height=200,width=200,id=media! NOTE: Due to security reasons, files located on remote servers are not permitted. OptionallyDefine the properties of the embedded object using a comma separated list of properties !filename.mov|height=800,width=600,id=media! Overriding the mime-type of a file without a meaningful extension: !filename|type=image/jpeg!
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Yes, there are two plugins that can facilitate this. One is the Rate Macro: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/TzYC The other is the survey macro which poses questions/polls and collects results:
Absolutely, we're committed to making our applications available to everyone. That's why you'll find a growing collection of professional and user-generated translations. Completed Language Packs:
Languages that in still in translation, but can be packaged into language packs:
Out of the box, "watches" are initiated by the users themselves, and cannot be assigned by anyone else. However, there is the Autowatch Plugin that will allow Confluence Administrators to specify whether a logged-in user who contributes a page, news item, comment or attachment is automatically added as a watcher for the related page or news item, so that they are notified on future changes.
What a user is allowed to do in Confluence is determined by the permissions they have assigned to them. Managing the users of a Confluence installation consists of giving the right users the right permissions.
There are three levels of permissions in Confluence: Global Permissions, Space Permissions and Page Restrictions.
Pages are protected by permissions, so when you link to a page that another user is not allowed to see, users without permissions who access that link will get a generic message that states, "Page Not Permitted". The link itself is not hidden, you will still be able to see the link. Also to note, restricted pages will not show up in a search. So users are only allowed to see content that they have permissions to see. You can certainly assign read only access to either pages or spaces, as long as the Space Admin give you the restrict page rights.
This depends entirely on which component you wish to hide. For example, hiding the "Bookmarking" feature takes only a few clicks, disabling the bookmark plugin, while other components such as hiding the print button will involve modifying the decorator files that requires one to have coding knowledge. So even though you have complete flexibility with the control of the look and feel with Confluence, some are more involved than others, we have made a guide available which can be found here.
Statistics on each space's activity are available, including:
You can view a space's activity by clicking on the Activity button in the Space Menu. Further, the Contributors Plugin contains macros to display contributors and statistics from a page or a set of pages. Out of the box, Confluence does not have a way to export activities data. However, if you are looking to get more statistics from Confluence you may wish to view this documentation which describes methods in which you can get more statistics from Confluence, as well as other applications you can leverage.
There are no space limitations for Confluence beyond what your IT infrastructure allows. For uploading, you can attach any form of file as an attachment. Attachments are versioned when they are edited or revised (and you can include comments when you upload a new version). This means that you can view the history of an attachment's progess with Confluence. Also, with the Office Connector, you can easily turn MS Word documents into Confluence wiki pages. More on the Office Connector here: http://www.atlassian.com/office/ If you are looking to upload content that was previously on another wiki, you can take advantage of our Univerisal Wiki Converter: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/R8IC
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You can read the Atlassian's blog press release about Confluence 2.9 here: Further, you can view full release notes here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/I4V0CQ And if you are thinking about upgrading the official Confluence Upgrade guide can be found here:
Confluence is a low-risk investment in the sense that it doesn't hide your information. If you chose not to continue, you can backup your entire instance (attachments included)as an XML file: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/_n4C Additionally, you can export individual spaces in XML, HTML and PDF formats allowing them to be easily transferred. A guide to exporting can be found here:
JIRA and Confluence were designed to complement each other. We've all seen projects where people try to store all their knowledge in the issue tracker, and we've seen projects where people have suffered trying to track issues in a knowledge management tool. We say: collect your team's thoughts, plans and knowledge in Confluence, track your issues in JIRA, and let the two applications work together to help you get your job done. Here are four ways you can get JIRA and Confluence working together: use Confluence shortcuts to make easy links to JIRA issues, use trackback for two-way linking between Confluence and JIRA, use macros to include JIRA reports in Confluence pages, and integrate your JIRA and Confluence user management. Combine Confluence Shortcuts and JIRA Quick SearchThe simplest ideas can often be the most useful. In our Confluence site's global configuration - Administration > Shorcut Links, we have the following shortcut defined: JIRA: http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=
This way, it's simple to create links using Confluence's shortcut notation. Link directly to JIRA issues: CONF-1000, or use JIRA's intuitive quick-search functionality to create links to particular groups of issue: CONF open improvements will link to a list of all open issues in the Confluence project of type "Improvement" (try it and see!) Use Trackback for easy two-way linkingActivate Trackback in JIRA and Confluence, and if someone makes a link from one application to the other, the link will automatically lead both ways: create a link from a JIRA issue to an example in a Confluence page, and the Confluence page will automatically know to link back to the JIRA issue, and vice versa. This is the perfect way to keep discussion connected to an issue.
(Note: as of Confluence 1.0 and JIRA 2.6, there is no mechanism for trackback to log in to JIRA or Confluence, so the use of trackback is limited to pages that are visible to anonymous visitors. In a protected Intranet environment, you may wish to open up Anonymous access to JIRA and Confluence to allow trackback to take place. Future revisions of the applications will give you the opportunity to allow Confluence to "log in" to JIRA and vice versa, avoiding this limitation) Use the {jiraissues} and {jiraportlet} macros to embed JIRA reports and portlets into your Confluence siteAny JIRA search-result can be embedded in a Confluence page using the {jiraissues} macro with your choice of included fields and field ordering, and any JIRA dashboard portlet can be embedded in a Confluence page using the {jiraportlet} macro. This way you can incorporate information from JIRA into the normal flow of your knowledge management. Combined with other macros like {junitreport}, {rss} and {html-include} and the FatCow suite, you can create dashboards in Confluence consolidating information from across your project, with Confluence and JIRA at the centre. For Confluence 2.7.0 and later, an administrator can configure JIRA (3.12.0 or later) and Confluence to communicate in a trusted way, so that Confluence can request information from JIRA on behalf of the currently logged-in user. JIRA will not ask the user to log in again or to supply a password. Trusted communication is used when embedding information from one application (e.g. a list of JIRA issues) into another application (e.g. a Confluence page). Read more about trusted communication. Link to Confluence pages from JIRA issuesWhile it is possible to simply paste links to Confluence pages into text fields of an issue (e.g. descriptions), the JIRA Linker Plugin provides a custom field that helps you find the correct page. Integrate JIRA and Confluence user-managementTo save you having to enter users into both JIRA and Confluence, you may benefit from using Atlassian Crowd as the user-repository for both applications. Alternatively you can configure Confluence to use JIRA's user database (this requires that you are using JIRA with an external database; it will not work if you are using JIRA with an embedded HSQL database). Some useful extensions
And much more coming...When you buy a license for JIRA or Confluence, you are automatically entitled to a year of updates. We listen to our customers needs, and having our products complement and work well with each other is very important to us. So if there is any way you think Confluence and JIRA could be made to work better, suggest it in our discussion space, and it may very well end up in a future version. You might also like to take a look at our beyond JIRA page or watch the short video overview on some of these points in .mov format. |
