Five Plugins You Ought to Know About

Hasan Edain

5 Confluence Plugins you ought to know

aboutand why.

Presented by:

Hasan Edain: Senior Sustaining Engineer

hedain@confirma.com

Confirma, Inc.

www.confirma.com

Free Plugins

Table Plugin

• Sorting

• Auto Numbering

• Visual Selection

• Sum

• No WYSIWYG Editor :(

Table Example

Why?

• Wiki is about Communication

• Presentation clarity increases communication

• More effects, less work.

• Dynamic sorting and highlighting increase comprehension.

Content Formatting Macros

• Lozenge

• HTML

• Rounded Rect

• Rollover

• Fancy Bullets

• ETC...

Formatting Examples

Why?

• Basic Wiki markup is great, until it isn’t

• HTML is... useful

• Lozenges are easy to read

• There is a LOT of stuff in the ...

• The devil can be in the details

Survey

• Up or down voting

• 1 - 5 ranked voting

Voting Example

Survey Example

Why?

• Adoption is a key issue for Wiki

• Listening to users is a best practice for increasing Wiki use.

• People like surveys

• Fast feedback

• It is REALLY easy to use

Table of Contents

• {toc}

• Makes an entry for every h#.

TOC Example

Why?

• Increased value from existing work

• Easy navigation

• Increased comprehension

• More report like pages possible (esp. if you add in the footnotes macro)

Macro Usage Stats

• Create a table of how often macros are used

• Shows in the admin console

Usage Stats Example

Why?

• Great for upgrades (keep them coming Atlassian)

• What are those wacky users up to?

• What should I document / invest in?

• Where should I be voting on improvements?

URLS Free

• Table Plugin: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Table+Plugin 

• Content Formatting: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Content+Formatting+Macros

• Survey: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Survey+Macro 

• TOC: http://www.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Table+of+Contents+Plugin

• Macro Usage Statics: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Macro+usage+stats+plugin

URLs Commercial

• Approvals Workflow: http://confluence.comalatech.com/display/AWP

• Balsamiq: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/confluence

• Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/confluencePlugin

• Theme Builder: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Theme+Builder