Well the Confluence - Sharepoint Connector went from beta v.0.5 to release 1.0 just like that. Rather a bit different to open source software I've played with (the connector most definitely isn't open source). Apart from having a flaky laptop with from which to run the demo, it went OK. I think I managed not to make a goose of myself in front of my workmates and boss.
The search function works a treat but only works with MOSS. You set it up as a Shared Service and off you go. One gotcha I found was that you need to keep the internal accounts available in Confluence as the search cannot currently work with anything other than Forms Authentication. (The Atlassian folks may have fixed this by now though).
Once you set up the LDAP authentication in Confluence to enable single sign-on, you can then configure Confluence to automatically pass your credentials to Confluence (automatic single sign-on). Doing this means that you lose access to the internally configured accounts. I quickly realised this as I hadn't configured my own account as a Confluence administrator. Oops... Backtrack, fix and re-enable...
For editing pages, the wiki is far easier (and richer) than dealing with Sharepoint and plug-ins allow for HTML content and for Word and Open Office documents to be used as a content editor (though I wonder how good they are). My boss liked the idea that you could roll up content from various Sharepoint lists, more or less creating "dashboard" style pages. I wonder what we'll do with it?
Cheers!
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31 July 2008
17 July 2008
What I'm doing at work - Sharepoint and Confluence
I'm getting to know Confluence an enterprise wiki platform. Ultimately we want to be able to connect it to Sharepoint 2007 using the Confluence Sharepoint Connector, currently at v.0.5.
Using this, you can embed Sharepoint list data in Confluence pages and can display Confluence pages and tree structures inside Sharepoint WebParts. The Confluence content is also fully searchable from within Sharepoint too. So far, so good.
I'm doing up a demo for my team at work and expect to deliver it on Friday. I'll blog about it then.
Cheers
Mike
Using this, you can embed Sharepoint list data in Confluence pages and can display Confluence pages and tree structures inside Sharepoint WebParts. The Confluence content is also fully searchable from within Sharepoint too. So far, so good.
I'm doing up a demo for my team at work and expect to deliver it on Friday. I'll blog about it then.
Cheers
Mike
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