Example Uses

Project Status Tracking

Many project management tools are not flexible enough to account for every need. Using Scriptix you can use any number of them and easily consolidate and summarize the results in your wiki.

Each project has a status page (templated for good measure) in the wiki on which pertinent data are tracked in some standardized format. These pages would be manually updated and also source data from other project management solutions via the sql macro. Tying into an issue tracker such as JIRA is just icing at this point.

Each status page resides under a parent page, say Active Projects, Pending Projects, and Completed Projects. On each of these a Scriptix runs and enumerates each child page, runs it through some regular expressions, and builds a table containing summary data. Wrap this in the table plus macro for yet more functionality.

Using this setup stale data is minimized and appropriate overviews can be had in real time.

Confluence Backup Manager

Each night, Confluence creates a backup and stores it on disk. Normally you can't get to that backup unless you've got direct access to the server. In shared hosting environments, or large corporate environments, the chances are that you won't have direct server access.

Using Scriptix, make a macro that lists all the backups and provides links for downloading or deleting them. Create some admin-only Scriptix servlets for downloading and deleting the backups. Voila! You now have an easy to use interface for managing your daily backups through the browser. So, what are you waiting for? Get the backup scripts!