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- Created by Robert Reiner, last modified on 05. Oct 2019
Helps team members to create documentation that is helpful, fosters the understanding of good and sustainable documentation and keeps the project's documentation up-to-date and clean.
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Name | Short Description | Doctype | Audience |
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Reference Tour | This tour provides a list of links to reference material. | tour | Author, Confluence Administrator, Documentation Gardener, projectdoc Developer, Template Author |
Tour for Software Developers | Overview over the most relevant information for software developers to create their documentation on Confluence with the projectdoc Toolbox. | tour | Documentation Architect, Author, Documentation Gardener |
Accessing projectdoc Properties with cURL | Learn how to access projectdoc properties via REST API with cURL. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Accessing projectdoc Space Properties with cURL | Learn how to access projectdoc space properties via REST API with cURL. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Agile Documentation | Agile documentation is not another buzzword. There is actually a set of rules to follow which will lead to meaningful documentation. Writing helpful documentation is not easy, but it gets a lot easier with the agile mindset - and with the projectdoc Toolbox. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Author, Template Author |
Artificial Properties | In addition to the properties specified in the document properties table, projectdoc provides additional properties drawn from Confluence or metadata. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Aspects light | Add a document as a child and automatically make supplied properties available in the parent. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Autoconvert Information System URIs | Introduction to the autoconvert feature for URIs to external systems. | topic | |
Basic Concepts and Conventions for projectdoc | Concepts central to projectdoc. Things users have to understand to get the most out of using projectdoc. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author |
Blueprint Properties | Lists the configuration options for template authors to control page creation. | topic | Template Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Cache Refresh Actions | projectdoc documents are stored in caches for quick access. Users may want to clear one of these caches. | topic | Confluence Administrator, Documentation Gardener, projectdoc Developer |
Categories of Information System Macros | Overview over the different categories of macros that are part of the Information Systems Extension. | topic | |
Changing Names | A name in projectdoc used to identify a document is not considered a hard reference. When changing the name of a particular document, the references to the original name do not automatically change. This is by design. It may also by the cause of annoyance. This tip provides information how to deal with this. | topic | |
Configuration | Information for the configuration options of the projectdoc Toolbox. | topic | Confluence Administrator, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Content Reuse | The projectdoc Toolbox provides a number of features to help teams to reuse content. Content can be transcluded individually or in form of a multitransclude. Authors can even transclude content from multiple documents in the wiki, effectively combining transclusion with automatic lists. | topic | Author, Documentation Gardener, Documentation Architect |
Deep Links in Queries | Deep links can be used on both sides of predicates in a Where Clause. | topic | Author, Template Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Define Status Tags | Doctypes and the Name List Macro allow to specify a range of valid tokens for a value. These values can be rendered by applying specific CSS styles. | topic | Author, Template Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Document Property Controls | Lists valid controls for properties to be used in document properties tables. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Dynamic Property Value Handling | Configuration to control how the projectdoc Toolbox handles property values with dynamic content. | topic | Confluence Administrator, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Dynamic Property Values | Property values should only change when a document is saved. They should not be dependent on request-time. If they are, then they are called 'dynamic'. | topic | Author, Documentation Gardener, Documentation Architect |
Filter on Table Rows | The projectdoc Toolbox for Confluence provides a macro to merge tables. The macro also allows to filter on table rows. This tip provides a short overview. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Generic Categories | Categories that are defined to be used with any doctype. So any document instance defined for these categories has to make sense for any doctype. | topic | Author, Template Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
HTML Title as Link Text | The Information Systems Extension for the projectdoc Toolbox allows to render a link with the HTML title as label via autoconvert of the pasted URL. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Learning projectdoc | Getting started with the projectdoc Toolbox is not easy. Some basic concepts are more than just good-to-know and the number of macros and doctypes may be simply overwhelming. This tip gives some advice on how to get started. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Author, Template Author, Sponsor |
Linking to Glossary Terms | Show how to use the Name List Macro to render links to glossary terms. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Modularization | Using sections and modules to organize and reference content. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Navigating Documentations | Categories provide easy navigation. The category page documenting the category automatically lists all documents tagged with this category. A defined set of categories has per default no such homepage. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
projectdoc System Properties | Lists recognized system properties specified on the command line for starting the Confluence server. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Query Configuration | Controls the parameter to use for running queries with the projectdoc Toolbox. | topic | Confluence Administrator, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Remote Controls for Transclusion | Alter the rendering of macros of transcluded content with remote controls. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author |
Rescue Confluence Pages | Rescue and restore data of a Confluence page that does not render anymore. | topic | Documentation Gardener, Confluence Administrator, Author |
REST Login to Confluence with cURL | To access Confluence via its REST API with cURL you typically need to authenticate. Learn how to login with cURL and avoid some common security pitfalls. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Search Space for Index Spaces | Define the default search space for index spaces. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Selection Boxes on ad-hoc Doctypes | Define a doctype on document instances to select from its set of values. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Space Properties | Lists the configuration options at space level. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Space Property Controls | Lists valid controls for properties to be used as space properties. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Supply Documents | Show how to import properties from other projectdoc documents into a projectdoc document. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Support Browsing | Tools from the projectdoc Toolbox to allow users to browse for information. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Think Repositories | To organize your documentation place documents in a typed repository and add additional views on demand. | topic | Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Troubleshooting Reindexer for projectdoc Documents | In order to completely restore the projectdoc document index, not only must the Lucene index be re-created and the projectdoc document cache cleared, but the internal projectdoc structures must also be rebuilt. | topic | Confluence Administrator, Documentation Gardener |
Type-specific Categories | Categories that are defined to be used for a specific doctype. May be used for a couple of doctypes, but is not intended to make sense for any doctype. | topic | Author, Template Author, Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener |
Use Doctype Name as Border Image | With the doctypeBorderImageServlet and some custom CSS it is possible to render a border image that contains the doctype name of the currently displayed Confluence page. | topic | Documentation Architect, Confluence Administrator, Documentation Gardener |
Using Aspects | Add a document as a child and automatically make supplied properties and sections available in the parent. A short walk-through to use the Aspect Feature in your information architecture. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Template Author, Author |
Views on Topics | projectdoc makes it easy to create a modular documentation and provide multiple views on topics. | topic | Documentation Architect, Documentation Gardener, Author |