Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Confluence -- Understanding the architecture -- High-level architecture -- Supported browsers -- Data storage -- Confluence Installation directory -- Confluence Home directory -- Installation options -- Standalone and WAR distributions -- Operating systems -- Databases -- Application servers -- Installing Confluence -- Installing Java -- Installing PostgreSQL -- Creating a user and a database -- Installing Confluence -- Unpacking Confluence -- Configuring Confluence Home -- Configuring the port -- Configuring e-mail JNDI resource -- Configuring HTTPS -- Generating a certificate -- Configuring Tomcat -- Redirecting traffic to HTTPS -- Configuring Confluence as a service -- Starting Confluence -- Installation wizard -- Setting up the e-mail server -- Summary -- 2. User Management -- Understanding authentication -- Password authentication -- Seraph -- Adding users -- Manually adding users -- Open registration -- Inviting users -- Managing groups -- Creating groups -- Adding users to groups -- Editing group membership from the user details screen -- Editing group membership via the group management screen -- Administrating users -- Searching for users -- Using the simple user search -- Using the membership search -- Editing user details -- Resetting the password -- Public signup -- External user directories.

The effect of directory order -- Limitations when using external directories -- Build-in user management -- Editing directories -- Connecting to an LDAP directory -- Connecting to LDAP -- Server settings -- LDAP schema settings -- LDAP permissions -- Advanced settings -- User schema settings -- Group schema settings -- Membership schema settings -- Connecting to a Crowd directory -- Connecting to Crowd -- Server settings -- Crowd permissions -- Advanced settings -- Connecting to JIRA for user management -- Connecting to JIRA -- Server settings -- JIRA server permissions -- Advanced settings -- Summary -- 3. Creating Content -- The basic concepts -- Spaces -- Pages -- Blog posts -- Comments -- Adding global spaces -- Adding pages -- Adding a new page to Confluence -- Creating a page from another page -- Setting the location of a page -- The Confluence editor -- The toolbar -- Formatting and autocomplete -- Autoformatting -- Autocomplete -- Autoconverting -- Drag-and-drop -- Adding content -- Styling -- Macros -- The macro browser -- Editing macros -- Macro keyboard shortcut -- Panels -- Page layouts and sections -- Using page layouts -- Using Section and Column macros -- Tables -- Editing a table -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Sorting the table -- Attachments -- Attaching files to a page -- Attachment version management -- Downloading attachments -- Embedding attachments -- Multimedia -- Office files and PDF -- Drag-and-drop -- Images -- Displaying an attached image -- Displaying an attached image on a different page -- Displaying an image from a remote web page -- Changing the image's appearance -- Aligning your image -- Displaying images in a gallery -- Links -- Linking to Confluence pages -- Using Autocomplete -- Using the Insert Link dialog -- Using copy and paste -- Linking to web pages -- Linking to an anchor -- Linking to a heading.

Linking to an undefined page -- Drafts -- Changing the draft interval -- Resuming editing a draft -- Viewing unsaved changes -- Working with content history -- Viewing the page history -- Importing content -- Importing a Word document -- Importing a Word document as a single page -- Importing a Word document into multiple pages -- Exporting content -- Exporting a single page -- Exporting a space -- Summary -- 4. Managing Content -- Organizing your spaces -- Changing the order of pages -- Setting the page order to alphabetical -- Orphaned pages -- Archiving a space -- Using Confluence labels -- Content labels -- Attachment labels -- Using space categories -- Viewing labels -- Using labels to display content -- The Content by Label macro -- Tracking content -- Watching content -- Setting notification options -- Watching a page or a blog post -- Watching a space -- Managing your watches -- Favorites -- Adding favorites -- Viewing favorites -- Searching Confluence -- Quick navigation aid -- Full and advanced search -- "Did you mean" -- Filtering results -- Searching labels -- The search syntax -- Summary -- 5. Collaborating in Confluence -- Collaborating with other people -- Mentions -- Share content -- Like -- Status updates -- Updating your status -- Managing status updates -- Displaying status updates -- Working with notifications -- Managing your notifications -- Included notifications -- Configuring workbox notifications -- Enabling workbox notifications -- Including notifications from JIRA -- Sending notifications to another Confluence server -- Working with tasks -- Working with personal tasks -- Working with tasklists -- Managing tasks on a page -- Confluence on your mobile device -- Viewing -- User profiles -- Searching -- Notifications and tasks -- Notes about the mobile interface -- Summary -- 6. Securing Your Content -- Accessing the content.

Global permissions -- Updating global permissions -- Overview of the global permissions -- Comparing the administration roles -- Notes on global permissions -- Space permissions -- Overview of the permissions -- Managing space permissions -- Setting default space permissions -- Page restrictions -- Page restriction hierarchy -- Inheritance -- Managing page restrictions -- Confluence security -- Secure administrator sessions -- Atlassian security advisory -- Limiting access to Confluence administration -- Best practices -- Summary -- 7. Customizing Confluence -- The Confluence dashboard -- The Confluence home page -- The welcome message -- Restoring the default welcome message -- Removing the Get Started text -- Including content from another page -- Themes -- The Default Theme -- Configuring the theme -- The Documentation Theme -- Configuring the theme -- Look and feel -- Confluence logo -- Space logo -- Color schemes -- Advanced customizing -- The default space content -- Custom HTML -- Custom stylesheets -- Site layouts -- Summary -- 8. Advanced Confluence -- Templates -- Using templates -- Creating templates -- Space templates -- Global templates -- Adding content to your template -- Importing templates -- Checking installed template bundles -- Making templates available for usage -- User Macros -- Managing user macros -- Writing user macros -- Writing a user macro template -- A descriptive header -- Parameters -- Template code -- Including another macro -- The Page Properties macro -- Shortcut links -- Creating a shortcut link -- Using shortcut links -- Summary -- 9. General Administration -- Working with add-ons -- The Marketplace -- The Universal Plugin Manager -- Online and offline modes -- Information transmitted by the UPM -- Switching to offline mode -- Finding new add-ons -- Installing add-ons -- Installing directly via the Marketplace.

Installing by file upload -- Updating add-ons -- Removing installed add-ons -- User requests for add-ons -- Viewing user requests -- Disabling user requests -- Content indexing -- Rebuilding the indexes -- Changing the indexing language -- Application links -- Adding an application link -- Editing an application link -- Space project links -- Configuring authentication -- Trusted applications authentication -- OAuth authentication -- Basic HTTP authentication -- Using Application Navigator -- Adding a new link -- Managing links -- Getting support -- Atlassian Answers -- Atlassian Support -- Atlassian Support tools -- Raising a support ticket -- Submitting a support request via Confluence -- Atlassian experts -- Summary -- 10. Extending Confluence -- The Atlassian Plugin SDK -- Installing the Atlassian Plugin SDK -- Prerequisites -- Setting up the Atlassian SDK -- Commands -- Creating a new plugin -- Adding a new module to your plugin -- Running a plugin in an application -- Running a specific version of an application -- Using the Maven Command Line Interface (CLI) plugin -- Running a standalone application -- The help command -- Maven -- The pom.xml file -- The plugin descriptor -- Using a development environment -- Installing Eclipse on Windows -- Installing the Maven Eclipse plugin -- Configuring the Maven plugin -- Building your first plugin -- Creating the plugin project -- Updating the generated code -- Adding plugin metadata to the POM file -- Verifying your Confluence version -- Cleaning up the plugin skeleton -- Adding a new macro module -- Implementing the macro interface -- Implementing the getBodyType and getOutputType methods -- Implementing the execute method -- Building, installing, and running your plugin -- Adding resources -- Releasing your plugin -- Setting distributionManagement -- Releasing your plugin without revision control.

Plugin module types.