Confluence tricks

How Do I Remove the Side Bar in Confluence 5?

Enabling the HTML Macro The HTML macro is disabled by default. You’ll need Confluence Administrator or System Administrator permissions to enable this macro. Enabling these macros can make your Confluence site vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. You should only turn on these macros if you trust all your users not to attempt to exploit them.…

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Crowd LDAP SSO

SSO with JIRA & Confluence (Really Trusted Apps) with CROWD and LDAP

1.       Configure CROWD Define in CROWD in the internal directory this groups (with the CROWD UI): confluence-administrators crowd-administrators site-admins system-administrators … something group with the same name such as JIRA/Confluence teams New internal directory in CROWD with the JIRA & Confluence internal users and assign the groups. ( this step must be done automatically importing directly the users…

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WebHooks

[SOLUTION] Where is the “Webhooks” option in JIRA / Confluence ¿? … seems disappeared

If the option System > Advanced > WebHooks is hidden… Probably you lost the add-ons. Only you need is install as a plugin in JIRA & Confluence. Yo can download for JIRA 6 & Confluence in the Word attached (inside there is a ZIP with the .JAR’s) jira-confluence-webhooks-plugin Webhooks documentation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA063/Managing+Webhooks More documentation: https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/modules/common/webhook.html

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Test Environments

JIRA / Confluence Server ID’s documentation and TrustedApps

Documentation about how to link JIRA with Confluence like a TrustedApp: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Trusted+Communication+between+JIRA+and+Confluence How to change the Server ID in a JIRA test environment: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Changing+Server+ID+for+Test+Installations How to change the Server ID in a CONFLUENCE test environment: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+change+the+server+ID+of+Confluence How to create a TrustedApp with duplicate Server IDs:  https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Create+Trusted+Application+Communication+for+Cloned+Instance Error lost Server ID and TrustedApp: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Encountered+_APP_UNKNOWN+Error+When+Using+JIRA+Issues+Macro

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Cluster

How to Install CONFLUENCE in CLUSTER

This guide covers installing Confluence Data Center, which is a clustered solution, for the first time (with no existing data). If you have an existing Confluence instance, see Moving to Confluence Data Center. 1. Clustering requirements and terminology To run Confluence in a cluster you must: have a clustered license. use a supported external database, operating system…

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Cluster

How to Cluster Atlassian Server Apps in your Data Center – JIRA, Confluence, Stash with MySQL Galera Cluster

Atlassian apps are widely used by development teams to facilitate software development and collaboration. For larger teams who require enterprise-grade tools, you might want to host the applications in your own data center and cluster them for high availability and performance. In this blog post, we are going to deploy a redundant active-passive setup for…

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Loggin

Configure Groovy ScriptRunner Logs

Loggin Scripts You can get a long with way with logging statements, which you can do by adjusting the log level, and “tailing” your log file, normally atlassian-jira.log (usually located in the path {JIRA_HOME}/log ). Add the following lines to your log4j.properties (usually located in the path {TOMCAT_ROOT}/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes): If your script fails for some reason…

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