A new requirement for our customer portal is to add blogging.
Our marketing team have been using Typepad, so they want a platform that is just as easy to use. But we also need a tool that can integrate with our Umbraco/Confluence site and one that can use our existing security.
Someone else on the team is looking at Umbraco, but I thought I'd share what I learned about blogging in Confluence.
1. Blog posts can be published from any space
Blog posts can be created from any space in your C...
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Confluence 3.5
Linking from a JIRA issue to a Confluence page
I received a question this month, asking how to link from JIRA to a Confluence page. I've been thinking about doing exactly this, so that we can keep Specification documents in Confluence, and then link to them from a JIRA issue. Here's what I found.
Looking through the Atlassian documentation, I discovered a plugin called the JIRA Linker, which lets you create a custom field and a Search button, so that you can search for a Confluence page and link to it.
[Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3]
1. Do...
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Copying a Space from one Confluence wiki instance to another
At the moment I have a Confluence wiki installed on my desktop. Next we want to install Confluence on a server to test the integration of the wiki with our Umbraco website and LDAP security.
So that we can demo Confluence to others in the group quickly, I need to copy a Space from my local instance of Confluence into the new instance on the server. I've searched the Confluence documentation, and it looks like I need to export the space as a zipped XML archive, and then import the xml archive ...
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