Monthly Archives: November 2011

Atlassian OnDemand, Meet Gliffy

More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin. The Gliffy plugin for Atlassian OnDemand allows you to create great-looking, collaborative, web-based diagrams right on any JIRA issue or Confluence page. Gliffy's extensive shape library gives users a wide variety of industry-standard icons/graphics to strengthen the impact of their communications. Work smarter together. Integrating Atlassian OnDemand and Gliffy lets you: Create

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Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0

UPDATE: January 2013 Since this post was published back in November 2011 there have been two plugins released on the Atlassian Marketplace that provide source and wiki markup editing capabilities in Confluence 4.x. Source Editor for Confluence 4.x Compatible with Confluence 4.1.5 and above, the Confluence Source Editor is a free plugin, developed and supported by Atlassian, that allows users to view and edit the underlying storage format for a Confluence page. Wiki Plugin for Confluence Bob

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Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product

This is a guest post by Brian Pugh of LucidChart, an online diagramming solution that makes diagramming fast and easy. In this post, Brian talks about the process of writing a Confluence plugin for LucidChart.   As you probably know, Confluence has a flexible plugin model that allows third parties to add new functionality and features. Typically, creating a Confluence plugin has involved adding new features in the plugin itself. However, as more companies are providing their software

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Team Calendars 1.6 Released – Share Your Custom Date Fields from JIRA

The Team Calendars development team has been working hard to make Team Calendars a bridge between JIRA and Confluence. We're excited to announce that our next major release - Team Calendars 1.6 - is available for download now! Since Team Calendars 1.0, you've been able to map default date fields in JIRA – issue and version due dates – on a JIRA Calendar for everyone to see in Confluence. This was really helpful for Product and Project Managers to visualize the schedule of a project.

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Bring Your Knowledge Base to Life with Gliffy

This is a guest post by Eric Chiang, Plugins Product Lead at Gliffy, which is a Confluence plugin that allows you to create stunning collaborative flow charts and diagrams in Confluence pages. This is the third and final post of a three-part blog series that details how you can use Gliffy to add impressive visual diagrams to your intranet, technical documentation, or knowledge base.   The past two weeks we've introduced you to some of the killer features that make Gliffy the perfect solution

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Measure Your Wiki’s Activity with Google Analytics for Confluence

This is a guest post by David Simpson, Senior Developer at AppFusions, and creator of both the Google Analytics for Confluence and Webtrends Analytics for Confluence plugins. Is your Confluence Wiki adoption GROWING? You introduced Confluence Wiki into your organization months ago. Over time it's been getting busier and busier. "This is good!", you think, "The early days were slow, but adoption is picking up!" The activity on your Confluence Dashboard is an endless stream

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