Monitor your Confluence server application performance in the wiki
This is a guest post by Keith Brophy from Adaptavist. Announced at Atlassian Summit 2010, the new VisualVM Plugin allows you to profile and measure how your enterprise wiki is performing. This post will describe the different features of plugin.
Charts, diagrams, wireframes, floorplans – Gliffy does it all in the wiki
Have you been looking for an online diagramming tool that allows you to collaborate with others in your enterprise wiki? Well, your search is over. Get rid of Visio and take a look at Gliffy, the best web-based diagram editor for Confluence.
Confluence 3.3 Sneak Peek
Confluence 3.3 is just around the corner. Since the the last release, we’ve been working really hard on making the it even faster to build content rich wiki pages using the Rich Text Editor. Check out the short video below to see just a couple of the features we’ll be shipping in Confluence 3.3.
10 questions to answer when evaluating enterprise wiki software
Wikis for enterprise use, both those available commercially as well as those available in open-source contexts, have become quite sophisticated. This article introduces and evaluates possible requirements as well as decision-making criteria. An article based off of this will then compare and contrast the proprietary wiki system Confluence with its open-source competitors Foswiki and MediaWiki.
How to build a kick-ass wiki page in 10 minutes
Confluence is a great technical documentation solution. A few weeks ago I created a tutorial using Atlassian’s public wiki, where Confluence users can learn how to become a wiki ninja. It was so popular that I decided to make it the focus of my lightning talk at Atlassian Summit 2010. In this post you’ll learn how to build the page below, from scratch, in just 10 minutes.
Task management in your wiki and bug tracker with TaskDock
TaskDock lets people engage using the tools they use on a daily basis to get their work done; email, Confluence, Jira or any combination of the three. Now you can easily add TaskDock tasks to specific Jira projects and versions from Confluence. This new feature enables you to leverage both tools to communicate and manage content creation across a team or organisation.
Confluence wiki helps NASA plan and communicate rocket reviews
In the summer of 2008, NASA completed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Ares I Rocket, the launch system designed to replace the Space Shuttle. What most people don’t know is that all of the planning for this review, including communication of information to thousands of review participants, was managed with Atlassian’s own enterprise wiki, Confluence.
SharePoint Connector 1.2 – 4 killer features
It’s with great pleasure that we bring you version 1.2 of the SharePoint Connector. Available for download today, you can now connect Confluence to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as well as SharePoint 2007. You’ll also find much improved support for Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). That’s not all, let’s take a deeper look into what’s new…
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Enterprise 2.0 Boston is just around the corner. Come and see us June 14th to 17th at the Westin Boston Waterfront and have a chat with Atlassian staff and see our tools in action.
Enterprise wikis for your smart phone – Google Android, iPhone and more
RefinedWiki Mobile Interface is a theme that optimises Confluence for viewing on smart phones, including phones with mobile web browsers like Android, Safari, Opera Mini and mobile WebKit. Rather than forcing users to install a client side application, RefinedWiki’s Mobile Interface is a single plugin that you install on your Confluence server.
Enterprise Wiki Essentials: Confluence Page Restrictions
This is the final post in a three part series about Confluence permissions. In part 1 we focused on Global Permissions and in part 2 we looked at Space Permissions. In this post we’ll take a look at the third level of Confluence permissions, Page Restrictions.
Enterprise Wiki Essentials: Confluence Space Permissions
Last week I blogged how permissions are a key point of difference between a general purpose wiki like Mediawiki and an enterprise wiki like Confluence. We looked at Confluence’s Global Permissions in detail. This post will take deep look at Space Permissions.
Documentation wiki theme now bundled with Confluence 3.2
Are you using your wiki for documentation? Atlassian developer extraordinaire, Jen Schumacher, announced the availability of the Confluence Documentation Theme back in December last year. With the release of Confluence 3.2, it’s now a bundled plugin. Let’s take a deeper look at how it works and how you can customise it for your needs.
Enterprise Wiki Essentials: Confluence Global Permissions
Wikis are increasingly being adopted by the enterprise. When people hear the word wiki, Wikipedia often comes to mind. Based on the free platform, Mediawiki, Wikipedia is undoubtedly the world’s most well known wiki. It’s important to note that there are some key differences between a platform such as Mediawiki, and an enterprise wiki like Confluence. One of those key differences is Permissions.
Increase wiki adoption with page templates
Encouraging adoption of an enterprise wiki can be a challenge. One way to increase adoption of your wiki is to provide some templates to your users to give them a head start in creating their wiki pages. In Confluence 3.2 we made some key improvements to Confluence page templates, including the ability to import a bundle of page templates.