
Earlier versions of Confluence sent a notification for every change to existing blog posts, and for all comments on blog posts too. If you have subscribed to all blog posts on the Confluence site, you will now receive notification for new blog posts only. The notification email message has useful links to help you manage your notifications and watches.
Adjust your settings directly from the email notification. You can turn autowatch on or off by editing the email settings in your user profile. With autowatch turned on, you will receive an email notification each time someone edits or comments on a page that you added or updated. Other improvements help you optimize your notifications. Clever synchronization and caching ensure the best response times for your directory searches.Īutowatch and Improved Notification SettingsĬonfluence's new autowatch makes it easier than ever to keep track of pages and blog posts that interest you. Confluence 3.5 can connect directly to JIRA's new directory management feature. JIRA is now able to act as your directory manager, interacting with one or more user directories and ensuring that you have the same set of users and groups across both applications. JIRA 4.3 offers a powerful user management capability. You can also use this option to create an issue in JIRA and insert it within the text. Generate a list of issues using JIRA Query Language (JQL) or by specifying each issue individually on the page or blog post. Insert individual issues within the text. The new 'Insert JIRA issue' option in the editor toolbar offers a number of methods for displaying JIRA issues on a Confluence page or blog post. It's now so much easier to set up a trust relationship between JIRA and Confluence, then share information across your applications. Connect JIRA and Confluence via application links. Integrating Confluence and JIRA has just become much easier. Are your users already in JIRA? Confluence 3.5 offers a much improved integration with JIRA for user management. Clever synchronization and caching ensure the best response times. If so, you will now enjoy the simple, quick setup via the Confluence and Crowd administration consoles. #How To Charles 3.5.2 For install#
For larger and more complex installations, you may need to install Atlassian Crowd. Make use of the caching and copy-as-required configurations to optimize the performance of your LDAP searches.
Choose the LDAP permissions to suit your needs: Read/write, read only, local groups or authentication only. We pre-populate the fields with default values depending on your choice of directory type.
Configure all your LDAP settings via the Confluence Administration Console: Permissions, server and schema settings.
Connect directory servers of different types, including the internal directory (default), LDAP, Crowd and/or JIRA. Add as many directory servers as you need.Choose from a list of supported directory types, including Microsoft Active Directory and ten other popular LDAP schemas.Confluence 3.5 brings a simple, powerful and flexible directory management interface: You had to edit XML files, and the configuration options were limited. Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and CrowdĬonnecting Confluence to an external user directory used to be painful, whether it was Active Directory, other LDAP servers or Atlassian Crowd.