Buggish: Lost Permission to Page when I had Edit Rights (Confluence 5.1.5)

I used my 1-on-1 call with my boss to finally give him some time to give permission to the rest of our team access to restricted pages that I created for our team only. I had originally was able to view and edit the page just fine. After our meeting, I realized that I no longer had access to the page. I checked with my coworker, and he now had access.

This was bizarre. Of course, I let me boss know. He tried a couple things. None of them worked. When we finally gave up messaging back and forth, he shared his desktop. I then saw that I was in the list, as I was before. Then we realized that I lost the restrictions when we added the others.

I did not want to waste any more of my boss' time so, I speculate that we had access before because there were no other restricted users. Once the restricted users were added, we lost access to the view rights. I am assuming that I still had edit rights. In theory, I could test this by keeping a link to the edit page of the restricted page.

In conclusion, users with edit rights has view rights automatically if there are no restricted viewing rights. Users with edit rights lose the viewing rights once there are other users with viewing rights. Thus users with edit rights has to also be added to the viewing rights list.

Food for thought, are there any cases where I would ever need edit rights but not viewing rights? I would still see the content when editing the page.

Buggish: Curly Braces with Confluence v5.1.5 (Jira) and SharePoint

I continue to have issues with the links from SharePoint due to the curly braces. I had hoped the Wiki upgrade would have resolved this which it kind of does.

The editor no longer has odd behaviors when saving and editing the links where the text/link combination kept growing each time the page was edited and saved. But, it does not fix the link issue.

Now, the issue is that the link appears but is not a hyperlink. Also, the curly brace at the end is not made part of the link. This behavior seems to suggest to me that there is a conflict with the editor interpreting part of the link as a macro.

If I removed the curly braces, the link becomes clickable. Thus, I still use the same workaround as before.


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Complaint: Curly Braces with Confluence v3.x (Jira) and SharePoint
Upgraded to Confluence 5.1.5

Work Life: Upgraded to Confluence 5.1.5

I didn't realize how old the previous version was, even the latest update is not the latest version (5.4). Even with that, I've only skimmed through to make sure all the content was still displaying correctly (which looks better than it did before) and I already like all the new features that I can find without going through the documentation. 

The editing tool is so much better. It is now more like your modern day WYSIWYG web text editor. I saw buttons for tables which is what I missed the most. I'm sure some of my problems have also gone away like pasting links with braces (haven't actually tested this yet). Much better than the editor for Blogger/Blogspot (which is still missing table editing).

Overall, I'm excited to play around with the latest update at work. Perhaps when I get a system up and running, I could install the latest version there. 

Reference

http://douglastclee.blogspot.com/2013/10/complaint-curly-braces-with-confluence.html

Complaint: Curly Braces with Confluence v3.x (Jira) and SharePoint

There is an issue with Confluence when using curly braces and URL. This should be easily replicated by typing in any URL with curly braces, like http://test.com/?param={test}. Another example is to copy the URLs in Sharepoint into Confluence.

What happens is that Confluence attempts to convert the curly braces as macros. At the same time, it tries to convert them into clickable links. I was unable to find a way to disable this. I even tried to use the forward slash, '\', to disable to display the curly brace. Since that did not work and I could not disable the conversion, I removed the http portion which helped display the link.

The workaround to fix this problem is to convert the left curly brace with %7B and right curly brace with %7D. For example, http://test.com/?param={test} will become http://test.com/?param=%7Btest%7D. What I do not like about this workaround is having to listen to people complain about having to do an extra step, or even worse not pay attention and not change the braces because not making the change really messes up the page especially if they are embedded in tables.


I apologize that I do not know which version of Confluence is being used. I do not have access and couldn't find it before having to leave work.


Update 1/27/2014 - I have found that the latest this version is 3.x.

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Work Life: Upgraded to Confluence 5.1.5