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April 25, 2023

Custom Confluence User Macro to remove all labels of a Page (example)

Configure the User macro: The variable $content.id contains the PageId reference and is inherited in the User Macro code We use in this case jQuery to do actions in the Macro calling REST endpoints of our Confluence That’s all! Here the result: go to some page, insert the new Macro and add some “labels” to…

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023

Custom Confluence User Macro to display text as Status (example with params)

Configure the User macro: That’s all! Try it in some Confluence page MrAddon by TecnoFor .

January 29, 2023

No more information leaks in Confluence!

In this exercise, we are going to create a small script that will help us safeguard the security of the information in the spaces of our Confluence Server or Datacenter. To do this, we will create a “Job” in Scriptrunner within our Jira Server or Datacenter. Adaptavist Scriptrunner is required in order to complete this…

September 24, 2022

ALERT: Don’t use Confluence Cloud for public documentation

What is Confluence Cloud? Confluence is a collaboration tool that brings people, knowledge, and ideas together in a shared workspace, so you can do your best work with the confidence of your entire organization’s expertise behind you. While Confluence is open by default, you can also set structured permissions and restrictions. That means that, for…

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022

Atlassian Cloud – How to do Daily Backup

In this post we are going to examine a very important topic, also in view of the latest news from the Atlassian Cloud world. The news: Some sites have reported the news, and the statuspage dedicated to Cloud products has been the following for several days: Current situation At this time only 35% of the…

September 20, 2021

Create Confluence Cloud spaces from Jira Cloud Workflow Postfunction (with Scriptrunner)

First of all, create a new API Key Token: Create an API key: https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens# Combine the key with login name in base64 string, go to https://www.base64encode.org/ Format is loginname:API-key exampel: email@email.com:ABCDE12345 give result: a3Jpc3Rlci5icm9tYW5AYWR2YW5pYS5zZTpBQkNERTEyMzQ1 Combine this with the authentication type in the below case a basic so the full text is: Basic a3Jpc3Rlci5icm9tYW5AYWR2YW5pYS5zZTpBQkNERTEyMzQ1 Now we are ready to create the…

March 24, 2020

Some tricks for Jira and Confluence #3

As all know, we can connect Confluence . Well. In some cases there are some issues. Let me describe a specific situation I have to manage with Confluence and User Directory. Scenario I had to work with a Confluence with this configuration. Users are managed by Jira. Well, After pass Confluence and Jira in HTTPS,…

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

Some tricks for Jira and Confluence #2

In this post I wanna show other tricks for Confluence and Jira. Let me introduce this topic. Jira/Confluence starts at server boot on Linux If we use standard setup, we can choose if own Jira/Confluence instance can be configured as a service. So when a reboot is required, service is restarted. This is the ideal…

February 20, 2020May 13, 2020

Some tricks on Jira and Confluence #1

In my job experience I saw several problems and strange situation. In this post we examine some of this situations and how we solve them . In this post we discover some interesting tricks 😉 Using Jira as user management in Confluence As shown in this documentation, we can use Jira Server as user management…

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020

How to publish a Confluence page in a Jira workflow transition

For this exercise we need a Jira and a Confluence installed, up and running. Now in Jira we need to install a free addon called “Easy Integrations for Jira” Once installed we need to configure it, we need to inform the URL of Confluence and a username and password to do the connection. Now open…

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019

Some useful MySQL commands for installing Atlassian Applications

Here a list of useful commands to do installations of Atlassian tools in MySQL Example for CentOS with yum ( install of MySQL client) At the command line of your instance, install wget: sudo yum -y install wget Install the MySQL client on the instance: sudo yum -y install mysql Download MySQL Connector/J Jira connects to…

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

New Macro to show a list of spaces and pages and last modified date in Confluence

This User Macro is very useful: You can count pages in spaces You can obtain the last modified date (and the modifier author if you want) You can show a list of spaces with links to quick access You can “clean” or “archive” old spaces Installation instructions: (see picture) The Template of code (the…

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