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can confluence be reconfigured, so it looks more like wikipedia? with few links to edit and comment on top, and the unimportant stuff at the bottom, to make it look like a real website?

Posted by at Aug 30, 2004 12:48

You can change the look of the site by editing the site's decorators. (You can also customise the look and feel on a space by space basis). More information here: Customising Confluence

Posted by cmiller at Sep 08, 2004 21:07

hmm.. just saw confluence for the first time (this is the second page visited) and find the screen a bit too busy... I'm guessing it's flexible in the backend that the look'n'feel can be configured to be better, however it'd be great if the default layout is improved somewhere (agree wikipedia is a good start)

Posted by at Oct 19, 2004 00:01

FYI, after asking Atlassian support about running Confluence on a Windows server as a Windows Service, I was provided instructions on running JIRA as a Windows Service, and I am told it's about the same with Confluence.

After some digging, I also found that since Confluence runs on Tomcat (among others), you can also get Tomcat to run on IIS (or through IIS, however you want to see it)

This post is provided to at least make future searching on these topics easier and, in the best case, cause this and other Confluence Setup pages to include the information directly. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)

Posted by at Jan 28, 2005 07:30

Confluence is easy extensible.

Posted by mszklano at May 11, 2005 04:35

Hi,

I have been playing with your standalone package since last week and am quite impressed (I am testing your tool as a way to document small software projects). One workflow that I don't see a straightforward way to implement is a JavaDoc "importer". I could simply link to a webpage, but this defeats the purpose of having it all in once place. I am sure someone else has run into this issue. Any suggestions? This would be a huge help to do this in an automated way since the JavaDoc is kind of dynamic.

Also, does the NTLM module for JIRA work for Confluence??

Thanks!

--jonathan

Posted by trumbjd at Jul 25, 2005 14:28

Jonathan,

You would have to write a script which takes each JavaDoc page and transforms it into a Confluence page. You will also have to take care of the linking between the pages, which will be the harder part.

However, I can't think of any good reason to put JavaDocs into Confluence. It will be much less of a hassle to update your JavaDocs if you keep them separate and only link to them.

Regarding the NTLM module, we haven't tried it for Confluence, but since it is based on os-user, it should also work with Confluence. But that is just a guess.

Cheers,
Jens

Posted by jens@atlassian.com at Jul 28, 2005 01:11

Hi,
Please, give an answer.. how can I split the Confluence page on two or more parts by vertical as it was made for this entire page. Look:

Setup

and

*DON'T PANIC!

sections are parallel on this page.
How can I make the same design in my Confluence page?

BTW, how can I make a left indent in a sentence on the page or provide more spaces between words than one space?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by at Aug 11, 2005 08:53

Have a look at the {section} and {column} macros – they allow multi column layouts.

To show extra spaces, you need to use the {code} macro – if you are using spaces for alignment, use a table.

It isn't possible to indent a sentence.

Posted by tom@atlassian.com at Aug 11, 2005 20:04

Hi Jens,

Thanks for the JavaDoc suggestions. This would probably work just fne.

But, going through the documentation, it's still not clear to me how Confluence could be configured to use the username that the NTLM module obtains and stores in the session. Is there a way to tell Confluence to pull this information from a particular session variable (say REMOTE_USER)?

Also, would it be pretty straightforward to create a plug-in that automatically sets up a default account for users when they first visit? We can pull all the misc info needed to do this from their Active Directory accounts. I assume we could just create a login page that would plug in all the details using your API. Do you see any obvious problems with this?

Thanks!

--Jonathan

Posted by at Sep 03, 2005 00:02

Hi Jonathan,

It sounds like you will want to have a good look at seraph, and do most of your work there.

You can find an example of how to you seraph with NTLM at JIRAEXT:NTLM Authentication and full details on seraph at http://opensource.atlassian.com/seraph/

Hope this helps.

Regards.
-Daniel

Posted by daniel@atlassian.com at Sep 05, 2005 18:22

Daniel,

Just tool a quick look at the seraph docs and it looks very interesting!

--Jonathan

Posted by trumbjd at Sep 07, 2005 10:55

You can indent by added one or more   tags at the beginning of the sentence.

Posted by at Oct 07, 2005 12:10

Hehe, it gobbled up my \  - I hope it appears this time.

Posted by at Oct 07, 2005 12:12

I've been entering & n b s p ; (without spaces).

So to indent add & n b s p ; (without spaces) at the beginning of a line to indent.

Posted by at Oct 07, 2005 12:13

I have installed confluence for test. But I could not see rech text editor as default.
Should I do additional setup for this?

Thanks

Yoshi

Posted by yoshi@imahima.com at Oct 30, 2005 22:25

You can enable rich texting editing at the Administration > General Configuration page.

Hope that helps,
Dave

Posted by dave@atlassian.com at Oct 31, 2005 18:30

It is unfortunate that I am reviewing products for a US military headquarters call center and I cannot get this one to work.  We are tech support and are simply amazed at how non-polished and complex the directions and application for the DEMO is. 

 I have spent more than 12 hours of work time time to figure out the DEMO itself, and it still does not work.  I have emailed the support group and they responded but there were further problems.  If the DEMO has this many problems, I guess I have evaluated everything I need to know.  It is unfortuante, because it was my first choice based upon the website.

Posted by phoneidiot at Jan 12, 2006 15:57

What further problems did you have with the installation? I looked through our support logs, and all I could find was a query on how to set JAVA_HOME.

Confluence's installation could be simpler: a graphical installer for Windows is in the works for example, but I still think our installation compares favourably with the vast majority of server-side products. Unfortunately the biggest hurdle, installing the JDK and telling Confluence where it is, is something we have no control over since we can't distribute the JDK ourselves for licensing reasons.

We're in the process of transitioning to more clear documentation, it could be that you accidentally ended up reading one of the older guides. Here are the best places to start when installing Confluence:

Posted by cmiller at Jan 12, 2006 17:20

I started from scratch with the revised instructions.  It works fine now.   I can move forward with my review.  Thanks

 - John Johnson

Posted by phoneidiot at Jan 19, 2006 15:11
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