confluence – Simon Wheatley

Velocity Markup documentation

May 28, 2008

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Velocity is a Java centric template markup language/syntax, and the documentation for using it seems a little Google shy for some reason… so, here it is, for me as much as anyone: Velocity markup documentation.

Displaying the current user’s profile picture in Confluence

Feb 9, 2008

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simonwheatley

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In my current Confluence wiki project, I need to show the profile picture for the current user in the header of every page. This will help in a couple of ways: It gives the wiki a more human touch The wiki will be used in an environment where many of the people will be sharing…

Confluence link to the current page

Jan 11, 2008

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simonwheatley

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For my current Confluence project, I’ve used Adaptavist Theme Builder to customise the View/Upload Attachments screen and I wanted to add an explicit link “back” to make it easier for users to return to the current page. I could have used Javascript, and so much of Confluence depends on client side scripting that it probably…

Confluence links to create pages from templates

Jan 11, 2008

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simonwheatley

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I’m working with Confluence to create a wiki for travel agents can record their research holidays. It is hoped that their colleagues can use first hand experiences of the resorts to promote them. We wanted to have an easy and structured way for people to add pages, for which we’re using Confluence’s templates feature. Templates…