Index Glossary Plugin

This is a very useful plug-in. But I noticed that when you have lots of entries for a given letter, the layout switches from one column to three. While that may be useful to cut down on page length, I would like to have the option to show everything in one column instead. Is there a way to do that? Or can that maybe be added to a new release?

These macros are not presently working in 2.3.3, but I don't see any notification of this on this page. What gives? Please explain.

I've tried installing this plugin on a Confluence v2.4.5 installation running on Tomcat 5.5 and JDK 1.5.0_12. When I use upload the plugin I get the following error:

The following error(s) occurred: There were errors when uploading this plugin: com.atlassian.plugin.PluginParseException: Cannot open JAR file for reading: /app/users/gbbrbi/Confluence_server_2/CONFLUENCE/temp/indexGlossary-1.0.0.jar
Checking on the server the file has been uploaded to the server, but the jar file doesn't appear acceptable. The file has a size of 14826. Any suggestions? 

Richard: the reason you get the message seems to be because the jar has been packed twice and therefore Confluence sees it as a corrupted jar. What I did to get it to work was:

1. Download the jar "indexGlossary-1[1].0.0.jar" from the site.
2. Unpack or unzip the jar and you will a file named "indexGlossary-1[1].0.0".
3. Renamed the file such that you add the extension ".jar" to it such as "indexGlossary-1.0.0.jar"

You should now be able to upload the jar "indexGlossary-1.0.0.jar" via the plugins administraiton page.

Cheers

Can the source be published for this plugin?

Could the "Acronym" table heading be changed to "Term" - not all glossary entries are acronyms.

I have add the source files. I don't think i am going to make new version of that plugin so feel free to improve it.

Hi when i try to upload the jar file, it throws the exception as below

There was an error opening the downloaded file as a JAR: C:\confluence\temp\indexGlossary-1.0.0.jar

With Regards,

Dhivya.M

Hi,

my glossary is displayed verticaly:

A

B

...

how can i have it diplayed horizontally?

Best Regrads,

Sebastian 

Has anyone been able to get the glossary macro to work with external links, i.e. Example: [http://www.example.com]?

 It appears to be an issue with how the macro parses the colons in this case getting confused between the colon on the acronym vs the link.  If an external link is included the resulting table structure gets mangled with the a new "Acronym" column getting added for each external link.  Escaping the colon with a back slash restores the proper table behavior, but the link gets truncated and displayed the text of the link up to the colon instead.

Any help with resolution would be appreciated 

Aug 29, 2007 
Guy Fraser says:
Could the "Acronym" table heading be changed to "Term" - not all glossary entries are acronyms.

Same problem encountered. Is there a way to change it?

Thanks and God bless.

This looks like a useful plugin and we are looking into using it.

It would be very useful if the following features were available for it:

• Have multiple glossaries on a page, probably requiring an id to be specified

  {glossary:id=First}
  ...
  {glossary}
     
  {glossary: id=Second}
  ...
  {glossary}
  

• Specify column heading names (as mentioned here before, but for both columns)

  {glossary: acronym_heading=Term | definition_heading=Explanation}
  

• Flag to display only sections that have values (so that letters with no terms are not displayed)

  {glossary: show_only_used=true}
  

When I add text for the Glossary, I get the following error:

Error formatting macro: glossary: java.lang.NullPointerException

The dummy syntax example text displays fine. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,

my glossary is displayed verticaly:

A

B

...

how can I have it displayed horizontally like in the screenshots?

And where can I find more about the Syntax of this Plugin?

Best regrads,

Tobias