Confluence Development

This page is a collection of lessons learned during development.

Velocity

Templates: *.vm

• Meaning of $!: https://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.5/user-guide.html#quietreferencenotation
• Ids of HTML entities are unqiue and may only appear once (important when a form can appear multiple times in case of pagela)
  • Can be selected via #
• Classes can be used multiple times
  • Can be selected via .

Confluence

• Ajax calls need a token, thus the following is required in the Velocity template #requireResource("confluence.web.resources:safe-ajax")
  • https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/form-token-handling/