Codeyard is our all-in-one-project solution for every Atlassian tool installed, configured and heavily used with your employees. It is a concept to launch approach that most product and service companies need to offer their customers to create value. Let’s talk about the Atlassian tool stack and how users can use it as a holistic solution to delivering value to customers (with or without software).
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Duplicate Content Defender for Confluence: Preventing redundant work and content
When creating a new Confluence page (specifically, when entering the page title), the Duplicate Content Defender automatically searches the instance (starting once the fourth character in the title line has been entered) for potential matching content and displays these potentially redundant pages. DCD references up to seven existing pages with an option to display additional results. The search includes both the page title and all of the page content. Search terms found in the titles are highlighted in bold.
Our Codeyard Theme: Create your own Intranet Software
Today is my first productive Codeyard day. Codeyard is our new all in one Atlassian solution and will hopefully become as successful as our Linchpin intranet solution based on Confluence. It offers the full Atlassian stack (HipChat, Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo) including all required professional services (organizational and cultural coaching, consulting, installation, configuration, …) at a guaranteed fixed price.
Continuous Delivery in practice: Deployment at the touch of a button and release management with Bamboo
Continuous delivery aims to reduce development costs through high-level automation, speed up deployment processes, increase the quality of processes and be more flexible and responsive to customer requirements earlier on in the process. (Our video session offers a detailed introduction to the concept.) Part of this article addresses how this is done in practice. We will configure Atlassian’s CI server Bamboo to install a simple Java web application on a Tomcat application server at the touch of a button.
Why do intranets grow old so fast?
Most employees do not use their company’s intranet. There are multiple reasons. The worst and most important is, that these intranets do not offer any significant value to their job. That’s devastating as most projects have started with different goals. Employees often describe their intranets as old and stale. This post talks about how this happens.
New customization options in Atlassian HipChat
HipChat is Atlassian’s chat and IM service for fast and easy communication within teams and beyond. HipChat offers a valuable platform for efficiently exchanging information in real time to spread-out teams. A team might be considered “spread out” if its members are sitting ten yards from each other at the office. Atlassian is now ready to roll-out new features for HipChat, which result in more freedom and customization options for users.
Getting a Linchpin Intranet from a Partner
Linchpin Intranets are becoming more and more popular. There are multiple partners, both from the Atlassian ecosystem and from outside the Atlassian realm, that offer full-service deployments for Linchpin. This blog post describes how a project with one of these partners looks like.
Differentiating between Confluence and Linchpin: Why you need Linchpin for your intranet
Confluence is an excellent social collaboration tool that helps teams work together better. But Confluence by itself is not a full-fledged intranet system and does not aspire to be one. It focuses on modern team collaboration (Intranet 2.0) and not on corporate requirements for intranets (Intranet 1.0). Our Linchpin solution combines both approaches and turns the excellent Confluence base into a proper social intranet where employees can work together smoothly but which still meets traditional intranet requirements.
Video files in Confluence: Problems with the multimedia macro and tips
Videos are also becoming more important in internal communication. They are often indispensable for technical documentation. Employees want to share tutorials and demos with each other. During on-boarding, instructions help new colleagues train for the job on their own. Confluence or a Confluence-based intranet with Linchpin is the ideal platform to centrally provide such content within a company. It works great with web videos, but there are still occasional problems with uploaded video files.
Table Filter plugin for Confluence: New version with pivot tables and dynamic charts
The Confluence plugin Table Filter from StiltSoft is a tool for data analysis and evaluation in Confluence. It lets you create tables using aggregated data and generate charts that are automatically updated each time data is filtered. The third version is now available and we would like to take a look at its new features. In addition to the Table Filter macro, the current plugin version has two additional macros: Pivot Table and Table Chart.