Five Plugins You
Ought to Know About
Hasan Edain

5 Confluence Plugins
you ought to know
about
and why.

Presented by:
Hasan Edain: Senior Sustaining Engineer
hedain@confirma.com
Confirma, Inc.
www.confirma.com

Free Plugins

Table Plugin
• Sorting
• Auto Numbering
• Visual Selection
• Sum
• No WYSIWYG Editor :(

Table Example

Why?
• Wiki is about Communication
• Presentation clarity increases
communication
• More effects, less work.
• Dynamic sorting and highlighting increase
comprehension.

Content Formatting
Macros
• Lozenge
• HTML
• Rounded Rect
• Rollover
• Fancy Bullets
• ETC...

Formatting Examples

Why?
• Basic Wiki markup is great, until it isn’t
• HTML is... useful
• Lozenges are easy to read
• There is a LOT of stuff in the ...
• The devil can be in the details

Survey
• Up or down voting
• 1 - 5 ranked voting

Voting Example

Survey Example

Why?
• Adoption is a key issue for Wiki
• Listening to users is a best practice for
increasing Wiki use.
• People like surveys
• Fast feedback
• It is REALLY easy to use

Table of Contents
• {toc}
• Makes an entry for every h#.

TOC Example

Why?
• Increased value from existing work
• Easy navigation
• Increased comprehension
• More report like pages possible (esp. if you
add in the footnotes macro)

Macro Usage Stats
• Create a table of how often macros are
used
• Shows in the admin console

Usage Stats Example

Why?
• Great for upgrades (keep them coming
Atlassian)
• What are those wacky users up to?
• What should I document / invest in?
• Where should I be voting on
improvements?

URLS Free
• Table Plugin: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Table+Plugin
• Content Formatting:
+Formatting+Macros
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Content
• Survey: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Survey+Macro
• TOC: http://www.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Table+of+Contents+Plugin
• Macro Usage Statics:
+usage+stats+plugin
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Macro

URLs Commercial
• Approvals Workflow: http://confluence.comalatech.com/display/AWP
• Balsamiq: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/confluence
• Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/confluencePlugin
• Theme Builder:
Theme+Builder
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/