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David Peterson replied on March 13, 2010 09:10 to the problem "{child-counter}" in CustomWare:

You're welcome!

David Peterson replied on March 13, 2010 08:10 to the problem "java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException help" in CustomWare:

Hi Jeremy,

I don't do the quoting end of stuff. The best thing would be to email info@customware.net and they can get you the details.

David Peterson replied on March 13, 2010 07:52 to the question "reporting plugin: how to report on user position and other nonstandard fields?" in CustomWare:

Hi David,

Currently they're not supported, but theoretically wouldn't be too hard to add. The main trick is figuring out where they're stored in Confluence. I had a quick look the other day but couldn't track it down at the time.

David Peterson replied on March 12, 2010 08:11 to the question "Linking 2.8.1. breaks add-page" in CustomWare:

Hi Rosemary,

We've just released Linking 1.9.0, which resolves that issue. It should be in the Plugin Repository by now.

David

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 12:25 to the problem "Website Typo for Confluence Conveyor Library" in CustomWare:

Hey Niels,

Thanks for reporting this one. Not sure why it didn't get fixed earlier, but I've now updated the template so all should be good now.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 12:20 to the question "Is there any information on how scalable is the scaffolding plugin?" in CustomWare:

Hi Robert. That should be fine, and to be honest, table-data and repeating-data should be usable in moderation. If you find yourself with massive tables of data, they might be better restructured as parent/children pages instead, and use Reporting to give summaries on the parent page.

The other place to watch is with the contents of the list-data fields. If you have a lot of {content-options} fields, or {user-options} fields in particular, there may be some performance issues.

With content-options, it depends how wide your scope is as to how many pages have to be checked every time it loads the list of options. If you are pulling from large sets of data, or from across a whole space, you might have issues. Using the 'parent' or 'ancestor' parameters will give you best performance, rather than using 'scope' or 'space'.

With user-options, you may find some performance issues if linking to a large list of users, or to an external authentication source, such as LDAP or Active Directory. Make sure your user caching is configured correctly to minimise that, but there will still be hits if you have a large userbase.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 08:02 to the question "Pass scaffold parameter to SQL Plugin" in CustomWare:

Hi Raf,

You can use the 'injection' feature of Reporting to inject a Scaffolding value into another macro. For example, you can do something like this:


*Text Field:* {text-data:Text Field}

{report-on:injected=true}
{sql:...}
SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE some_column = '%data:Text Field%'
{sql}
{report-on}


Basically, just put '%data:XXX%' inside the {report-on:injected=true} macro, and it will put the value in as text.

Hope that helps.

A comment on the problem "postfix and prefix don't seem to work with scaffolding" in CustomWare:

Thanks. – David Peterson, on March 11, 2010 02:29

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 02:07 to the question "Latest reporting plugin introduces paragraph tags" in CustomWare:

Hi Matt,

The short answer is, I'm not sure off the top of my head. Probably the best thing would be to create a bug report and I'll schedule it for investigation. If you could include the wiki markup and possibly even some screen shots of what's expected vs. what you get, that would be helpful.

Thanks.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 02:04 to the problem "postfix and prefix don't seem to work with scaffolding" in CustomWare:

Very weird. I'll try testing on Conf 3.1.2 soon to see what happens.

Actually, could you please create a bug report with the above details. That will get it into our development system.

Thanks.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 01:50 to the question "Is it possible to nest a table-data object inside of a repeating-data object?" in CustomWare:

Theoretically it's possible, and definitely should be in the latest versions of Confluence/Scaffolding, but there were some nasty bugs in earlier versions where you would get 'explosions' of extra rows and weird stuff if you actually did it. The solution is to upgrade to Confluence 3.0+, along with Scaffolding 3.2.0+.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 01:38 to the problem "postfix and prefix don't seem to work with scaffolding" in CustomWare:

Hi Scott,

I've tried something similar to your example on my local test site (putting {add-page} into a template and clicking it from there), and it works fine. I'm using Confluence 3.1.1, but other than that it's the same configuration. I'm working on downloading 3.1.2 at the moment to see if something broke in that version...

I'm wondering if there is something else in your page that might be interfering with the macro somehow? Could you try doing a test with a simple template that just has the {add-page} markup in it?

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 01:27 to the problem "java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException help" in CustomWare:

Very odd. The problem is happening in an area of code where we had to add a work-around for Atlassian changing some of the low-level code for Caching. We essentially are checking the object code and (hopefully) calling the appropriate method depending on which version of Confluence you're running on. However, for some reason, it's not running correctly in your version, and I'm not sure exactly why not...

Could you please create a bug report in our system and I'll get it scheduled for investigation. However, in general we can't really support older versions of our plugins 'for free' - it's just too much time required for that kind of support. If you really need it working, we can set up a project to do so.

Alternately, you might consider upgrading your version of Confluence, and using the latest version of the plugins. If you do that, make sure you test it first on a staging server, not your production server.

A comment on the problem "add-page-form : labels parameters doesn't works if template has scaffolding field" in CustomWare:

Hi there. You don't actually have a 'labels' parameter in the macro. Are the labels attached to the 'Access Info' template? – David Peterson, on March 11, 2010 01:14

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 01:05 to the question "How can I get the containing page returned by the tasklist supplier report?" in CustomWare:

If you want to get data from all spaces, you need to swap out the {local-reporter} with something like this:


{content-reporter:type=page|spaces=@all}


You can specify '@global' or '@personal' if you want to limit the spaces a bit further.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 00:58 to the problem "{child-counter}" in CustomWare:

It is out now in version 2.9.0. Let us know if you have any issues.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 00:55 to the question "How do I filter by report item number?" in CustomWare:

Yeah, that would be my recommendation also. You can't actually access the 'report' values from inside the 'reporter' macros - they are actually produced by the reporter macros, so are only available later down the pipeline.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 00:49 to the question "Is there any information on how scalable is the scaffolding plugin?" in CustomWare:

Hi Robert,

The number of fields on a page can be a consideration. We've received some reports of {table-data} and {repeating-data} with large numbers of rows (100+) causing some issues. Scaffolding stores the data as XML, so every time you edit or read data, it has to convert to and from XML. We do some caching of this data, but the more that is cached, the more memory usage there is, so it's a bit of a balancing act.

Those are the main issues I'm aware of.

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 00:44 to the question "Latest reporting plugin introduces paragraph tags" in CustomWare:

It's kind of a known issue. Confluence 3.0 changed a few rules with 'inline' macros and started creating new paragraph breaks. We tried to work around them with the latest version, but there were still some things that don't quite work.

What versions of the plugins are you using?

David Peterson replied on March 11, 2010 00:41 to the question "How do I display search results in a new window, & in a tree view format?" in CustomWare:

Hi there,

I'm not sure exactly how you would achieve what you're after. You might be able to use the {link-window} macro to pop open another page that has your search markup above, but it won't really help with opening the results in their own window. I think you would have to do a customised version of the {pagetreesearch} macro that opens in a new window via JavaScript or something along those lines.