Description
Atlassian Cloud (formerly OnDemand) restricts the ability to install most add-ons. So how can you still implement concepts like how to use Confluence for business intelligence and reporting? Or perhaps you are not allowed to install add-ons on your own corporate Confluence installation and you would still like to publish SQL or other external data (like excel data). Now there is a solution for both of these use cases. This article discusses this in terms of Cloud, but it applies equally to other restricted environments. While not as dynamic as using the add-ons directly, it only takes a few more steps to implement and skills and knowledge gained can also be applied in the other context.
This is how the /wiki/spaces/info/pages/86083526 page is produced. Bamboo automation publishes the page once a day.
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Steps
Some of the elements here are optional depending on what you want to do and how automated you want to be. This section outlines the most automatic and rich example.
You need:
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- SQL for Confluence - version 4.5 or above
- Run Self-Service Reports for Confluence (optional) - provides a parameterized page for testing
- Run CLI actions in Confluence - makes it easy to store the page on the Cloud instance. After installation, configure a profile to get to Cloud
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Create a publish page using the Run, CLI and SQL Query macros. The key is that the SQL Query produces wiki markup because of output=unrenderedWiki (this is what gets published to Cloud).
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{run:titleRun=Publish
|autoRun=true
|requestPrefix
|replace=profile:confluence:Profile:select::confluence-local::confluence-cloud}
{cli:profile=$profile|macros=true}
-a storePage --title "Project Summary" --space info --file - --minor --comment "Updated from database"
@DATA:
\{\{toc:type=flat|separator=pipe|minLevel=3|maxLevel=3}
h3. Confluence Add-ons
{sql-query:id=CONF|datasource=myDS|output=unrenderedWiki|columnTypes=S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,C}
select ...
{sql-query}
{cli}
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When macros=true is used in the CLI macro, all embedded macros are rendered. This is how the SQL data is generated. However, you may want some macros to not be rendered and remain in the markup so they get rendered on the target page. In this example, it is the TOC macro. Simply escape the open bracket so the renderer does not render it and double up the opening bracket so the CLI macro removes the extra after it is rendered. |
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