projectdoc Toolbox

Phantom References, Nameless Documents, Table Macros, and enhanced Page Tree Support

Today we released version 2.1.0 of the projectdoc Toolbox on the Atlassian Marketplace!

The projectdoc Toolbox is an add-on for Confluence supporting agile software development teams to collaborate on process, project, system, and product documentation. 

Release Notes Overview

 

New and Noteworthy

The following changes may be the most interesting of this release.

Phantom References

With this version property macros (e.g. Display Document Properties Macro or Display Document Property Macro) support phantom references.

This change does change the semantics of references. A document references another document regardless of the existence of the referenced document.

Nameless Documents

The default use case for the projectdoc Toolbox assumes that there is a page blueprint for each doctype. But users employ user templates instead of writing page blueprints.

To serve this group of users better, we decided to add support for document title and document name syncing. projectdoc is based on projectdoc documents. projectdoc documents require a name. Other than the document title, the document name does not need to be unique within a space. Nameless documents still require a name, but it does no longer be explicitly set. The name can be derived from the document title.

Prior to version 2.1 of the projectdoc Toolbox the title only was derived from the name, typically adding some more characters to the title to meet the uniquness constraint. With version 2.1 users may set a title and have the same character sequence also for the name (which makes the name unique). In addition to set a regular expression can be used to derive a name from the page title. The regular expression can be set on space level with a space property for all documents or just for specific document types.

Space properties to configure nameless documents are

  1. Doctype Star Document Name Pattern
  2. Doctype Document Name Pattern
  3. Default Group Name Pattern
  4. Doctype Document Name Pattern Group

Name List UI

The Name List Macro provides a new UI to keep the table row height in the document properties table in edit mode smaller.

Delete Tree Support

Based on phantom references the execution for a delete tree is much faster due to optimizing the number of documents that need to be updated.

Changed Reindexing

Reindexing of documents is now based on queueing implementations which makes saving documents quite fast.

Table Merger Macro

If you need to combine the results of a Display Table Macro and a manually defined list of entries - for instance by use of the Tour Macro, the new Table Merger Macro allows to render multiple tables in just one table. It also allows to select on and rearrange table columns. The macro can include tables from any source, which includes tables transcluded with the Transclusion Macro.

Table Set Macro

The Table Set Macro applies a simple set operation on tables in its body. This way authors may run operations like and, or, and not on tables.

Breaking Changes

The following changes break features from previous versions of the projectdoc Toolbox.

Please check carefully before updating to this version of the add-on!

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Upgrade Instructions

The following topics have to be considered for an upgrade to this version.

Install the new OBR of the projectdoc Toolbox first.

Required Add-on Updates

The following add-ons need to be updated to work with this version of the projectdoc Toolbox.

Everything optional

 

Note that all doctype add-ons and extensions are optional. None is required to be installed to run the projectdoc Toolbox. Although the use of the Core Doctypes is recommended.

Add-on for the projectdoc Toolbox Required Version
10.0.0
8.0.0
3.0.0
3.0.0
1.0.0.b2

List of Changes

The complete list of changes for this release.

See list on JIRA.

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Related Releases

Doctype Add-ons

Doctype add-ons provide space and page blueprints based on the projectdoc Toolbox.

Doctype add-ons typically provide blueprints based on macros provided by the projectdoc Toolbox. These add-ons need a licensed version of the projectdoc Toolbox to be installed.

projectdoc Core Doctypes

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projectdoc for Agile Planning

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Extension Add-ons

Extension add-ons extends the functionality of the projectdoc Toolbox.

Extension add-ons for the projectdoc Toolbox provide additional features. Extensions need a licensed version of the projectdoc Toolbox to be installed.

Maven Extension

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Web API Extension

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Resources

Release Notes
Information on all released versions of the projectdoc Toolbox for Confluence.
Glossary
Terms used in and defined for projectdoc.
FAQs
Questions and answers related to the projectdoc Toolbox and Confluence.