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Atlassian Confluence is a closed source wiki system for creating and managing (internal) wikis.

Notable Confluence features

  • Content is organized in so-called "wiki spaces", which can be thought of as sub-wikis.
  • Content is organized hierarchically.

Licensing

Atlassian offers free licenses to open source projects. Paid subscriptions for commercial/private use are available.

Related software/tags

Confluence can be integrated with other Atlassian products, such as their project tracking/service desk application Jira, the source code manager Bitbucket, and the build server Bamboo. Externally developed software such as Gitlab can be integrated as well. Atlassian provides a Python API for use with Confluence and other products. REST API is also usable with Confluence.

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How to format an inline code in Confluence?

How can I format an inline code in Confluence like this? I mean, not a separate code block, but just inline classname, for example.
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Shortcut for "code block" macro in Confluence editor

We use confluence for documentaion but i find very time consuming to select the code macro; it's a 5 step process. Even typing the macro by hand is not efficient. In the Stack Overflow editor all we have to do is select the text and press a button…
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How to create new page in Confluence using their REST API?

I need working example of creating new wiki page in confluence using rest api. I prefer the new page to be created under specific space and specific page. I read their api documentation and looked at few examples they had and still coming short.…
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How do you insert a confluence macro into a page created by the Confluence Rest Api?

I've successfully used the Confluence Rest API to create a page and attach it to a Space. MY json looks much like that from the example: { "type":"page","title":"My Example Page 1", "space": {"key":"DAT"}, "body":{"storage":{"value":"

This is a…

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JIRA/confluence alternative

Please tell me what kind of programs you use insted of JIRA/confluence. I don't like jira because the design is so Java style. For example I like the PivotalTracker for tracking fresh projects. What do you suggest? THX!
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How do I paste data into a table using Confluence 5.7?

I have a pile of tabular data I need to paste onto a Confluence web page. The usual mechanisms are NOT working properly for me. What "usual mechanisms?" Copy the data to Excel then copy / paste into Confluence. Format the content using wiki…
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Import Confluence xml dump into Mediawiki

Is it possible to import a Confluence xml dump into Mediawiki? If so, any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks for you assistance!
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Is there a plugin to improve Confluence's search?

Our team uses confluence as our enterprise wide knowledge sharing system. It's fine, but the search for Confluence is god awful. I've talked to people at other firms and they've had similar complaints. The specific question...Is there a plugin for…
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Confluence version history

It's nice to have a version history in Confluence. However a new version has been created every time when the document is edited and saved. I'm looking more for a "release" history. Assume I have version 1.0 of my document/page. Then I edit and save…
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How do I convert HTML code to Confluence-style Wiki Markup?

The API documentation for Mylyn Wikitext has functions to convert Wiki Markup to HTML, but I cannot find functions to convert / parse HTML code to Wiki Markup. Class MarkupParser has method parseToHTML, but where can I find the reverse?
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Confluence blueprint substitution does not work in macros with plain-text body

I've created a Confluence blueprint plugin as per the basic/intermediate/advanced tutorials available from Atlassian. I now want to update the page template to include a {HTML} macro with embedded CDATA, where a URL in that CDATA contains a portion…
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Creating link to file location on network in confluence

On confluence I want to create a link that links to: P:\myFolder\folder, where P is mapped to a network share. Just putting in "P:\myFolder\folder" doesn't work. Any ideas? (Assuming I cannot put in the full network path).
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How to add a caption to an image in Confluence Ondemand?

I've inserted an image in a Confluence page. There does not seem to be an option to add a caption to provide a short explanation of the image. I found a link - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Displaying+Images that "explains" how to add…
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Is it possible to enable markup editor in latest Confluence?

Starting from Confluence 4.0, 'wiki' markup language was removed in favor of rich edit. But in my company developers don't like rich edit and want to us familiar markup plain text editor. Is it possible to re-enable wiki markup editing in…
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In C#, what is the best way to parse this WIKI markup?

I need to take data that I am reading in from a WIKI markup page and store it as a table structure. I am trying to figure out how to properly parse the below markup syntax into some table data structure in C# Here is an example table: || Owner ||…
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