Making PDFs in Confluence

In the mailbag this week, a reader asked if there's a way to convert a Confluence wiki into a PDF. When we get our Confluence wiki off the ground, this will be an absolute necessity for our team too since we have some customers who are not online 24/7. I've found two ways to make a PDF: 1. Make a PDF of a single Confluence page In Confluence, find the page that you want to turn into a PDF. Click Tools, then select Export to PDF. Save the PDF somewhere you'll be able to find it. 2....
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Blogging with Confluence

A new requirement for our customer portal is to add blogging. Our marketing team have been using Typepad, so they want a platform that is just as easy to use. But we also need a tool that can integrate with our Umbraco/Confluence site and one that can use our existing security. Someone else on the team is looking at Umbraco, but I thought I'd share what I learned about blogging in Confluence. 1. Blog posts can be published from any space Blog posts can be created from any space in your C...
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Linking from a JIRA issue to a Confluence page

I received a question this month, asking how to link from JIRA to a Confluence page. I've been thinking about doing exactly this, so that we can keep Specification documents in Confluence, and then link to them from a JIRA issue. Here's what I found. Looking through the Atlassian documentation, I discovered a plugin called the JIRA Linker, which lets you create a custom field and a Search button, so that you can search for a Confluence page and link to it. [Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3] 1. Do...
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