Adaptavist announce Footnote Plugin

We are pleased to announce our latest creation - the Footnote Plugin.

The plugins contain two macros - one for defining a footnote and another that displays the footnotes further down your content:

As you'll see when you use this plugin, we got a bit carried away and added some nice embelihments that make it a pleasure to use.

For more information, hints and tips, please see our user guide.

Builder User Guide

We're happy to announce the first version of our online user guide for the [archive:Builder] theme...

The Builder user guide covers all the main aspects such as installation, theme configuration, menus, custom stylesheets, etc:

If you've been looking for detailed information on what the theme can do, and how it's configured, why not take a look? You'll be supprised by some of the insane things that can be done with menus

Website Upgrade - Phase 2 Complete

Our regular visitors will no doubt have noticed a fair number of changes to our website over the past few hours. We've just completed Phase 2 of our re-design.

Here's a quick summary of some of the main changes:

• Cleaner looking logo banner and menu theme
• New "Home" menu allows quick access to all key sections
• New cleaner dashboard
• [Host Network Status] has been moved in to the [Newsroom]
• New "Navigate" menu allows quick access to child pages, referring pages and page headings

There is yet more to come, so stay tuned...

Builder 1.5 Official Launch

We're delighted to announce the release of the Builder v1.5 Confluence Theme which adds some great new features:

Menu Styles Library

Quickly customise the design of your menus by choosing from our [menu styles library], for example:

Full Label Support

As promised, we've now got full support for labels including the ability to edit labels whilst viewing a page.

Easily Remove Page Information Banner

One of the most common requests we get from clients is an easy way to remove clutter from the top of pages. Although this could be done using style sheets in earlier versions of Builder, we've made it even easier with a setting in the theme configuration.

Default Style Sheet

Builder now provides a default style sheet that instantly makes your content look cleaner.

Numerous bug fixes and enhancements have also been made based on client feedback.

So, what are you waiting for? You've seen the other Confluence themes, now find out what they left out:

Adaptavist announce Confluence Developer Utilities

Adaptavist are pleased to announce a set of utilities aimed at automating common development and maintenance tasks associated with Confluence.

The pack, which is available free of charge, consits of four easy to use Maven "Project Goals" as follows:

• conf-dev-utils:rescan - Rescans the plugin folder using the Plugin Manager.
• conf-dev-utils:uninstall - Uninstalls a plugin from Confluence
• conf-dev-utils:reinstall - Uninstalls the old version of a plugin and installs a newer version
• conf-dev-utils:upload - Uninstalls any old versions of the plugin, builds a new version from source and uploads it via the Plugin Manager

We estimate that these utilities will save Confluence developers roughly three hours per week by automating common manual tasks and their related issues.

For more information, please click here.

New Shopping Cart

Adaptavist are pleased to announce the arrival of a simple shopping cart that should make online purchases of Confluence and Builder a little easier...

PayPal's shopping cart enables you to simply click an "Add to Basket" button to buy Confluence and Builder licenses.

We are aware that PayPal causes problems for some clients and are seeking alternative payment methods to streamline the process. However, for everyone else it's now easier than ever to buy Confluence and Builder!

Known Issues:

• PayPal's shopping cart can currently only handle one currency at a time and as such Confluence and Builder licenses need to be purchased seperately.
• Customers who have used their company email address to make private purchases via PayPal will not be able to use their company credit card against those email addresses.

At present, we have not linked Confluence license renewals or upgrades to the shopping cart while we assess the new system. We hope to implement these within the next few weeks and are also assessing options for online payments relating to our Host service.

SpringOne Conference

The SpringOne conference is fast approaching - if you're a Java developer, you'd better hurry if you want tickets...

With almost 30 industry leading speakers already confirmed, it's shaping up to be the Spring Framework event of the year!

Click on the Spring logo banner above to register or for more information about the Conference head over to http://www.springone.com.

Adaptavist announce Form Mail Plugin

If you've been plagued by spam after displaying your email address in Confluence, you'll love the new Form Mail plugin...

It's the same old story over and over again - you create a Confluence site and put your email address on there so that people can contact you. Next thing you know, your site has been rated 4+ by Google and fills the first page of Google search results – then the spammers arrive at your site...

Adaptavist have been plagued by spammers from around the world. Every day we have the fun task of batch deleting about 50 spam emails for various pills, email scams and bogus companies. It's time to fight back!

Our Form Mail plugin allows you to quickly and easily add an email form to Confluence pages (and news articles, etc) and because you can specify a user name (rather than an email address) in the macro parameters, the chances of spammers finding the actual email address are greatly reduced.

As an added bonus, people who travel a lot can now easily get in touch as they don't need access to their usual email client to send you messages - there's one built directly in to your page!

You can see a fine example of the plugin in use on our Contact Us page and you can get download and usage information from Atlassian's Confluence Extensions page.