Atlassian Confluence plugin

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Atlassian Confluence

Display contextual links to your Atlassian Confluence documentation pages.

Only the Jira Cloud offering is supported by this data source.

Adding a data source

To add a data source click on the + next to Data Sources on the left-hand menu in SquaredUp. Search for the data source and click on it to open the Configure data source page.

Before you start

Creating an Atlassian API token

This plugin requires you to provide an Atlassian API token to authenticate the data source. If you do not have one already, a Jira admin can generate a new one here https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens.

It is recommended to generate a specific API token for your SquaredUp instance, as if you ever need to revoke it you will not impact any other applications.

For detailed steps for API token management from Atlassian, see:

https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account.

Required permissions

When you configure the data source, you must provide the User email address of the account that created the token.

If the user account doesn't have access to a space, the space won't be returned. If the user account has read-only access to a space, then you get the pages in that space.

Configuring the data source

  1. Display name:
    Enter a name for your data source. This helps you to identify this data source in the list of your data sources.

  2. Domain URL:
    The domain for the Atlassian instance you wish to use, in the format:
    https://your-domain.atlassian.net
  3. User email address:
    Enter the email address of the Atlassian account that generated the API token.
  4. API token:
    Select the type of token to use. See Before you start for more information.
  5. Token:
    Enter the API token generated from the email address in the Creating an API token section.

    If you selected the Without scopes (legacy) option, the same API token can be used for the Jira and Confluence data sources.

Next Steps

Data streams

You can use these data streams to create new tiles to show data, or if there are preconfigured dashboards installed you can copy or edit those.

Data streams standardize data from all the different shapes and formats your tools use into a straightforward tabular format.

While creating a tile you can tweak data streams by grouping or aggregating specific columns.

Depending on the kind of data, SquaredUp will automatically suggest how to visualize the result, for example as a table or line graph.

Data streams can be either global or scoped:

  • Global data streams are unscoped and return information of a general nature (e.g. "Get the current number of unused hosts").
  • A scoped data stream gets information relevant to the specific set objects supplied in the tile scope (e.g. "Get the current session count for these hosts").

See Data Streams for more information.

The following data streams are installed with this plugin.

Data stream
Description
Pages (Match All Labels) / All
Get all pages that match all labels
Pages (Match All Labels) / Archived
Get archived pages that match all labels
Pages (Match All Labels) / Current
Get current pages that match all labels
Pages (Match Some Labels) / All
Get all pages that match some labels
Pages (Match Some Labels) / Archived
Get archived pages that match some labels
Pages (Match Some Labels) / Current
Get current pages that match some labels
Pages / All
Get all pages that match all labels
Pages / Archived
Get archived pages that match all labels
Pages / Current
Get current pages that match all labels

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