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Some good ideas from the government

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Via Simon Dickson, I’ve come across Tom Watson’s¹ post on Power of Information: New taskforce and speech. Some things quotes sprang out at me: Continue reading ‘Some good ideas from the government’

Displaying the current user’s profile picture in Confluence

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simonwheatley

3 months, 1 week ago

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In my current Confluence wiki project, I need to show the profile picture for the current user in the header of every page. This will help in a couple of ways:

It gives the wiki a more human touch
The wiki will be used in an environment where many of the people will be sharing computers, the user photo will allow them to quickly see who they are currently logged on as

I’ve googled and googled on this one, and I can’t find any current macros to do it. Bubbles, the community and social network plugin from Adaptavist, will have a macro for exactly this, but is currently in a closed beta… and I don’t need any other Bubbles functionality for this project.

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Confluence link to the current page

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simonwheatley

4 months ago

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For my current Confluence project, I’ve used Adaptavist Theme Builder to customise the View/Upload Attachments screen and I wanted to add an explicit link “back” to make it easier for users to return to the current page. I could have used Javascript, and so much of Confluence depends on client side scripting that it probably wouldn’t have been a problem… but I do like being POSH, so I wanted to keep it simple and just have a regular HTML link.

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