How Broadband Forum Uses Talk and Confluence to Get Answers in Context
September 26, 2019
#Case Study#Collaboration
3 min
Broadband Forum, our Talk – Advanced Inline Comments for Confluence customer, delivers ultra-fast broadband services for home and business, access and converged 5G infrastructure, and Cloud with the help of the innovative use of NFV, SDN, Ultra-Fast access, and IoT.
Broadband Forum is a member organization. It aims to accelerate the adoption of their work to bring new, valuable services to their member companies and all stakeholders who use the developed work.
In the company, the Talk app is used by its technical participants, who are hundreds of users from more than 150 different companies. They develop technical standards for the global telecommunications industry.
Easy communication inside Confluence
The Talk – Advanced Inline Comments app helps the Broadband Forum participants communicate about logistics, administration of projects, and technical issues. Their Confluence users get to ask questions in Talk inline comments, which are added to the needed parts of the page content. It gives the insightful context for everyone involved in the conversation.
Automatic notifications about new discussions and replies sent to the watchers of a space assure that the right person jumps in and provides a timely answer or feedback. Talk Report allows Broadband Forum to track and easily find unresolved discussions that are pending for way too long. With the help of suggestions, the users can propose a change on a page without editing the content.
The team also appreciates that they can view, add, and resolve comments in the editor and set priority to discussions to signal others whether it waits or they expect a quick follow-up.
Challenges and benefits
The Talk – Advanced Inline Comments app made technical discussions much easier for Broadband Forum. The users can easily ask questions and rapidly get answers next to the discussed information on Confluence pages. Seeing all Talk comments of a space in one place, working with inline comments in the editor and giving priority to threads of comments take collaboration on technical issues to a new level.
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We suppose not only our team was looking forward to a new release of our favorite tool for creativity and collaboration. Finally, Confluence 7.0 is here and you can already dive into it right now.
For those of you who love to be the very first trying all the new things and strive for progress we prepared five apps compatible with Confluence 7.0, so let’s check them out.
Table Filter and Charts for Confluence is a powerful data evaluation solution for Atlassian Confluence that is perfectly combined with other macros and apps outputting tables. You can take advantage of bundled tools for running all kinds of table data filtration, aggregating it in multidimensional pivot tables, transforming it with the help of SQL, and visualizing it with a variety of charts and graphs, including a Gantt chart.
Smart Attachments for Confluence is a solution for comprehensive document management and file control. It provides the centralized space storage for keeping your project documents and assets. Now your teammates can instantly locate the recent version of the required document, diagram, or spreadsheet at once. The app deeply integrates with the native Confluence functionality and gives you powerful tools to collaborate on documentation with your colleagues in real time.
Courses and Quizzes – LMS for Confluence allows you to create quizzes, tests and training courses for employee and customer education, employee onboarding, knowledge evaluation of job candidates. It lets you use Confluence as a learning management system (LMS).
Talk – Advanced Inline Comments helps you add powerful inline comments to your Confluence pages. You can easily add comments anywhere on the page, both while editing and viewing the page content. Moreover, you can restrict access to specific talks for appropriate users or groups making your conversation private, prioritize discussions, and use the Talk report that shows you all discussions spread over multiple pages in the space.
All these apps were designed to enrich your Confluence experience and simplify your daily tasks.
Do you remember you can try all of them free?
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5 New apps to Enhance Confluence Look and Feel – Second Quarter 2019
August 22, 2019
#Confluence
9 min
Our team tests new apps for Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket every quarter to help you find the most useful solutions. So, if you doubt which app to install, we’ve got you covered. Here are our picks for the most interesting fresh Confluence apps that will enhance the look and feel of your site:
If you use page sharing option in Confluence, you probably know that there is no way to track and search the sharing history. We have good news for those who really need this feature!
Enhanced Sharing for Confluence is an app that helps you to have a record on what was shared with whom and when. Now you can improve your team collaboration because you can easily access the information about the pages you share with your colleagues. For example, if you share Confluence pages for content approvals and auditing processes, you will have visibility on the pages you share.
This app will be of great help to you when you didn’t get a reply from your teammate and do not want to bombard all the people from the same share list multiple times. Moreover, if you need to get back to the page you shared later, you can check if you’ve already shared it.
Pricing: The pricing for Enhanced Sharing for Confluence Server starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $800 for the unlimited number of users.
Slack is a team collaboration hub that helps you bring co-workers together to get things done faster and smarter. If you are looking for a way to integrate Confluence Cloud with Slack, you can take advantage of Slack Feed Macro for Confluence.
This simple tool allows you to view your Slack channels on Confluence pages to stay up to date with relevant discussions to better focus on your work.
This app allows you to show both private and public channels listing multiple channels on a single page as a feed macro.
PDF Watermark for Confluence is an app that allows you to add custom watermark to any PDF attachment. Your Confluence administrator chooses the spaces where to apply the functionality of the app and the documents from these spaces will get custom watermarks during PDF page or space export.
This app doesn’t change any page content and doesn’t add watermarks to pages when you work with them in Confluence.
Pricing: The pricing forPDF Watermark for ConfluenceServer starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $5,700 for the unlimited number of users.
Currently, you can convert iPython notebooks to HTML and copy/paste them as source into the Confluence editor. However, images break on Preview and Save steps.
The Jupyter/IPython Notebook Viewer app helps you to swiftly render Jupyter/IPython notebooks in Confluence pages. All you need to do it to add the URL to Notebook file and the app will take care of everything else.
You can also render charts and graphs in notebook to visualize them in Confluence. This app also supports private repositories from GitHub.
Team radars is usually a set of tools that help you to understand how your team is doing in areas like development practices, culture and values, Agile practices, and other topics. You can use Team Radar for Confluence to collect data about your team performance and visualize it to get some useful insights about how your team performs.
You can easily configure this app depending on your needs. For example, you can ask your team to evaluate their current project. You will get a report that will show you the strengths and deficits your team encounters.
This app is a great solution if you want to get a detailed assessment of your projects and check the overall team performance. It can also help you find some gaps your projects have and help your co-workers improve their teamwork.
Pricing: The pricing forTeam Radar for ConfluenceServer starts from $250 for 25 users and ends at $6,000 for the unlimited number of users.
Check out our previous blog post and check out our favorite Confluence apps released in the second quarter of 2019. Share your picks of the most interesting apps for Confluence in the comments below.
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5 New Confluence Apps to Work Smarter – First Quarter 2019
May 14, 2019
#Confluence
11 min
We’re back with an all-new list of five Confluence apps released in the first quarter of this year. We’ve chosen the tools that can help you make your life easier, and help you get the most out of your Confluence instance. We hope that you will add these solutions to your list of add-ons you want to try.
You can also check our previous blog post featuring useful apps for Confluence released in the fourth quarter of 2018.
These newest apps can enhance your Confluence experience:
Once you modify any page, Confluence creates a new version of it. These way you can keep track of all the content changes. Moreover, you can compare different page versions and restore the one if you need. However, sometimes the page version history can go beyond than you expected.
Purge Page Versions is an app that helps you to purge the old page versions. You can do it either automatically or on-demand basis. Just click the Purge Versions tab to open the page history.
Now you can easily choose the versions you need to purge.
This app also allows you to add the Page Version Summary gadget to your Confluence pages. This way you can keep track of all versions of your pages per space and easily navigate between them.
This simple app helps you keep Confluence database compact and quickly purge the page versions you do not need.
The Visual Macro for Confluence app allows you to share important information with your colleagues. You can decide where and when to show content blocks on Confluence pages. Just choose the required conditions in the menu of Visual Macro.
You can select the view type and device type. This means that if you check the Word and PDF boxes, the content block will be visible only when users export this Confluence page to Word or PDF.
You can also select users and user groups that will see the required information.
You can even set the date to display the content block.
This app can be helpful when you want your users to see some important information on specific dates in specific circumstances.
The developer doesn’t recommend to use this app to secure any sensitive information.
Pricing: The pricing for Visual Macro for Confluence Server starts from $25 for 25 users and ends at $999 for the unlimited number of users.
This time we want to show you a solid software that is sold separately from Confluence and helps you search Confluence content in Slack. Kipwise – Search Confluence on Slack allows users to find the required Confluence information directly on Slack using simple slash command.
With the help of this tool your team saves time because they can access the information they are looking for without searching around different places with no need to use various tools.
Linchpin Intranet Suite empowers Confluence making team collaboration even more effective. After installation of this app you receive a number of plugins you can enable and tailor them to the individual needs of your colleagues: new, events, blogs, and more. This means that Linchpin Intranet Suite will show you the information based on your profile settings (language, news feed, department, location, etc.). You can easily personalize the look and feel of Confluence with the help of this app. This add-on allows you to integrate your menu with the Confluence header. You can also choose your menu style.
You can add important events and share them with your colleagues. With the help of this app you can create your own blog to exchange ideas, ask questions and just chat with your team mates.
This useful app provides you with a collaboration hub right in Confluence. Now you can build an interactive knowledge base together with your team.
Pricing: The pricing for theLinchpin Intranet Suite app for Confluence Server starts from $2,500 for 25 users and ends at $52,000 for the unlimited number of users.
The daily life of a Confluence administrator can be complex. Especially when they need to quickly understand why a user or a group of users can or can’t access a certain page or space. Permission Helper can be a nice solution of this challenge. It helps Confluence administrators to have an overview of user and group permissions.
You can access the settings either in the space tools menu or in the setting menu of the Confluence header.
This app allows you to quickly understand the reason some user can’t access a certain page.
Use this solution to easily troubleshoot the problems your users encounter when they deal with page and space permissions.
Pricing: The pricing for the Permission Helper app for Confluence Server starts from $15 for 25 users and ends at $1,200 for the unlimited number of users.
This is our selection of the most interesting Confluence apps released between January 1st and March 31st this year. We hope that each of these apps can help you get more done in less time.
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5 New Confluence Apps to Become More Productive – Third Quarter 2018
October 12, 2018
#How To#Confluence
12 min
We receive a lot of positive feedback on our quarter blog post series that highlights the most interesting new apps for Atlassian products. So we created the articles on new solutions for Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket of the third quarter with renewed vigour . You can check our previous blog posts featuring various apps for Confluence released in the first and second quarters of 2018.
Today we want to share our top 5 new add-ons for Confluence that appeared on the Atlassian Marketplace between July 1 and September 30. Here’s the list of our favorites that can help you optimize your productivity and boost your mood and creativity:
In this blog post, we will describe the features of these apps in more details.
Reactions for Confluence
Reactions for Confluence is a simple and useful tool that helps you add emojis to Confluence pages and comments. You just click the Add reaction button and choose the smiley that illustrates what you think about the content.
When you team creates something cool, clicking the Like button is not enough to express what you really feel. Moreover, this app allows you to add emojis not only when you are happy with what you’ve read but when you feel sad or even frustrated.
Now you can easily respond to page comments using various reactions to express your emotions.
You can use this app to save your time by adding your favorite emoji reactions to Confluence pages and comments of your teammates. This app allows you to communicate a full range of emotions.
The Header Menus app helps you add up to five useful tabs with the links you want to have at hand to the Confluence menu. All you need to do is to open the tab Configure Header Menus in the administrative console and paste the links to the websites you want to quickly access.
You can add your top-visited social media accounts and work-related sites. Now you are just a click away from all these useful links.
You can easily organize all the links into categories. When you click any web site created with the the help of Header Menus, the app opens the link in a new tab.
This simple tool saves your time and helps you stay focused on the web resources you are working with.
Pricing: Header Menus for Confluence Server is free to use.
Confluence Cloud for Slack (Official)
The Confluence Cloud for Slack (Official) app helps you take your team collaboration to new heights and stay on top of your work in Confluence, straight from your Slack channel.
You can set up notifications you want to receive and choose the pages (including child pages) and actions you want to keep track of. Moreover, you can customize this information either in Slack or in Confluence.
You can easily reply to Confluence comments without leaving your Slack channel or react with in Slack to like Confluence pages, blogs, and comments of your team members.
This app allows you to preview the links to your Confluence content you are sharing with your colleagues in Slack. With the help of Confluence Cloud for Slack you can take action on your Confluence content right in Slack keeping your interaction with the team productive.
The Space Fields for Confluence app helps you centralize your project related metadata. You can create various space fields in the Add-ons section of the Space Tools tab to track additional information about your project:
status;
metrics;
properties;
tokens;
strings.
This app allows you to create as many page fields as your project requires. You can set the access type for each field and reuse the public ones in other Confluence spaces.
After you create the space fields, you can create a new page in the space and insert the macros related to this app.
This app provides you with REST API to fetch and keep your project properties. Now each Confluence space has an area that allows you to store and manage your project related metadata.
Duplicate Page Titles (Same Page Titles) allows you to create pages with the same name within a space. In fact this app adds a special prefix to the page you create with the name that already exists. You can edit this prefix if you need and you will see it in the search box when you enter the name of the page.
You can use this app when you want to create the same page structure for your technical documentation in one space.
This app is very useful when you work on technical requirements, code reviews, release notes, functionality specifications, and other documents that require a well-defined structure.
Pricing: The pricing for Duplicate Page Titles (Same Page Titles) for Confluence Server starts from $100 for 25 users and ends at $3,080 for the unlimited number of users.
We hope that you will find all these solutions useful for your team and reveal their potential for boosting your team productivity.
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10X Your Performance in Confluence With 10 StiltSoft Apps
August 22, 2018
#Confluence
15 min
Atlassian Confluence is a content management software that lets you get more done keeping your work organized. This team collaboration platform helps you get an immediate access to the information you are looking for because everything you could possibly need to create great content is in one place. Confluence allows you to easily create, update, and share content with your colleagues making this solution ideal for teams of all sizes and specializations. But there’s always room for improvement, right?
The Atlassian Marketplace offers almost 1,000 handy solutions to improve Confluence capabilities and take your team collaboration on project documents and files to the next level.
In this post, we will highlight 10 useful apps from StiltSoft you can use to enhance your productivity, stay focused, and do the best work you can.
Here’s how these apps can help you get most out of your Confluence.
Effectively collaborate with your team
Talk – Advanced Inline Comments
You can easily add inline comments to your content in Confluence when you want to discuss a page or blog post with your team. However, native inline comments are available only in the view mode. Moreover, everyone who has access to the page will see the comments you add.
Talk – Advanced Inline Comments helps you add more powerful inline comments anywhere on the page, both while editing and viewing the page content. You can also restrict access to specific talks for appropriate users or groups making your conversation private, prioritize discussions, and use the Talk report to have a bird’s eye view of all the discussions spread over multiple pages in the space.
Sharing files and project documents in Confluence might be a challenging task. Have you ever thought about how to categorize and group your files in Confluence? We already did.
The Smart Attachments app provides you with a new way to keep all you project files in the centralized space storage. Now you can create separate folders for the group of files, easily use the already uploaded documents, and quickly integrate them into your Confluence pages.
If you want to make your content more appealing and interactive, you can try our Handy Macros app. It is a comprehensive set of ready-to-use tools for your Confluence site.
You can create your own statuses and switch from one status to another on the fly right in the page view mode. Handy Macros also allows you to keep the track of your tasks and events with the Handy Page Diff macro, the Handy Reminder macro, the Handy Tasks macro, and the Handy Timestamp macro. This app helps you add attractive image and video carousels for capturing attention of visitors using the Handy Carousel macro, and more.
No Email Storm is an app that can be a life saver for those who forget to uncheck the Notify Watchers button when saving minor changes and bother your teammates with tons of notifications.
After installation of this add-on, you will see the Update & Notify button next to the Update button instead of the Notify Watchers checkbox. This way you can click Update if you just want to save changes without notifying the page watcher, or click Update & Notify to share the information about what has been changed.
Table Filter and Charts is a must-have app that provides you with exceptional functionality of Confluence tables making them much more usable. Now you use flexible and powerful filters to easily find the required information relevant to your current goals. Moreover, you can get a comprehensive insight into your table data and transform it into a visually-readable format.
With the help of the Table Filter macro you can quickly filter dates and number ranges, icons and images, and more. The Pivot Table macro allows you to summarize large sets of data and easily manipulate data series in the realtime mode using your source tables. When you use the Chart from Table macro, you can generate visual-appealing charts and graphs built from tables.
Courses and Quizzes – LMS for Confluence helps you build quizzes, tests, and training courses on the fly right in Confluence. With the help of this app you can assess knowledge and skills of your job applicants, create tests for onboarding of new-hires, or set up training courses for employee training.
You get a learning management tool that helps you design educational courses, entertaining and fun quizzes. You can track participants’ progress in quiz reports and get statistics on the easiest and the hardest questions. Moreover, you can share quizzes and training course with anyone by email.
With the Favorite Pages app the pages you need are just a click away. This app provides you with a quick access to your top visited pages in Confluence. You can assign hotkeys to the pages you want to open ever quicker.
This add-on allows you to open the inline list of your top visited and saved for later pages anytime you need it. By default the list of your top visited pages continuously updates. However, you can lock the pages you want to keep on the list.
InPlace Editor is a simple tool that makes editing large and complex pages quick and easy. This app shows the Edit icon next to the heading titles so you can switch to section editing right in the page view mode.
You can set the global or space specific configuration of heading levels enabled for editing or allow inclusion of adjacent sections with headings of lower levels.
This app also allows you to copy the link to a specific paragraph/heading within a page.
You can try all these Confluence apps for free to choose the ones that suit your needs best. They are designed to help you communicate better with your team, get things done more efficiently, create appealing content, and boost your overall productivity in Confluence
To get more information about our solutions for Atlassian products you are more than welcome to check out all our apps on the Atlassian Marketplace.
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