Power Scripts™ for Confluence

Great idea to have something like that for Confluence

I'm very happy to see that cPrime has recently released a SIL (Power Scripts) add-on for Confluence. This first version is a bit rough around the edges, and the documentation has numerous errors (even in the code examples), but it is definitely a step in the right direction for people who love SIL (Power Scripts) for its ease of use compared to Groovy. In order to better understand how this add-on works, you are better off starting with SIL (Power Scripts) for JIRA, because it is a lot more mature, and the documentation is more elaborate. Once you get comfortable with this add-on for JIRA, the one for Confluence will be easier to understand, and you will be able to navigate past the errors in the documentation without trouble. Also, my first installation of Power Scripts for Confluence did not work, the add-on refusing to enable. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it a second time, and it worked. Not sure what caused that error, but I notified cPrime in case something needs to be edited in their deployment package. To use it, one of the basic concepts to understand is that Confluence pages use HTML in the background, so adding data to a page has to be done via... - A bulleted list - A numbered list - A table - Plain text (a paragraph tag within HTML) So, the different Power Script macros that can be added to a Confluence page will basically call a script that will process data using typical SIL routines, and the script's output will then be displayed on the page in one of the formats listed above. To be noted that the difference between the "SIL script" macro and the "SIL table" macro is subtle. You can use the "SIL script" macro to display tables, or other formats as I mentioned previously, but the "SIL table" macro also allows you to tweak the column headers and transpose the data vertically/horizontally. Besides that, SIL (Power Scripts) for Confluence comes with extra goodies, similarly to the JIRA version, like the ability to program listener or connect to other systems (LDAP, database, etc...). This said, although the first version of this add-on is rough around the edges, it is a much welcomed addition to the existing SIL add-on universe from cPrime, and I will look forward to seeing it mature and get more elaborate with time.