This page last changed on Feb 20, 2011 by jclark@atlassian.com.

23 February 2011

Atlassian is proud to present the Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.3.

This release includes a number of end user features and administration improvements. Most notably, the  Confluence Page web part and a Confluence Tree View web part now support web part 'Connections.' This means that you can configure the Confluence Page web part to dynamically update when a user clicks within the Tree View web part. In addition, the Confluence Page web part now displays any comments associated with that page, allowing SharePoint users to view threaded discussions happening in Confluence.

Our developers have managed to squeeze in a number of other improvements too. Better sub-folder support in the SharePoint List macro, full support for row-level security, improved handling of anonymous users in Confluence, and a nicer integrated search experience are just a handful of the extra goodies in this release.

To see the full picture, take a look at the list of improvements below.

Highlights of this release:

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Upgrading from a previous version of the SharePoint Connector
Please refer to the SharePoint Connector 1.3 Upgrade Notes for essential information about factors affecting your upgrade.

 

Support for Web Part Connections

The Confluence web parts now support web part 'Connections'. This allows users to browse the pages in a Confluence space without leaving SharePoint. Setting up the connection is easy – just edit the SharePoint page and use the menus to connect the web parts together.

 

Bring Confluence Discussions into SharePoint

A new option in the Confluence Page web part allows users to toggle the display of comments on a Confluence page within the web part. If you use comments to discuss your Confluence content, this discussion can now automatically be displayed in SharePoint.

 

Search SharePoint From Any Space

One of the best features of the SharePoint Connector is the ability to search Confluence and SharePoint at the same time. Prior to SharePoint Connector 1.3, you needed to use the SharePoint Decorators theme if you wanted to search SharePoint from your Confluence space. In 1.3 we've eliminated this dependency so that you can now add integrated SharePoint search to any Confluence space, regardless of the theme you're using.

 

Improved SharePoint List macro

SharePoint Connector 1.3 gives you more flexibility and security when embedding SharePoint lists into your Confluence page:

  • The SharePoint List macro can now display any sub folder in your SharePoint List or Document Library. Check out our guide to Using the SharePoint List Macro for more information.
  • The SharePoint List macro ({sp-list}) now fully respects any row-level permissions applied to list items and documents, offering greater security for your SharePoint content. (CSI-217)

[insert screenshot of a Confluence page just showing a subfolder - maybe show the full folder in sharepoint with an arrow pointing to the subfolder in Confluence.]

 

Plenty of Improvements

Here's a selection of the other improvements in this release:

  • The Confluence Permission Checker RPC plugin is no longer required for the SharePoint Connector. The same functionality has now been rolled into the core SharePoint Connector plugin, providing a more streamlined installation and upgrade experience. (CSI-217)
  • When embedding Confluence content into SharePoint, administrators can now configure the SharePoint Connector to access the SharePoint user's email address for logging in to Confluence. This was a feature request from a number of customers who use email-addresses as login names for Confluence (CSI-285).
  • Administrators can now customise the timeout value for Confluence web service calls (CSI-60).

The SharePoint Connector 1.3 Team

Development
Elwist Ng
Kang Leng Ong

Product Management
Bill Arconati

Product Marketing Management
Matthew Hodges

Support
Roy Hartono
Adam Laskowski
Azwandi Mohd Aris

Team Lead
Joseph Clark

External Contributions
Atlassian gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these external developers, who contributed software patches that were incorporated into this release
Mohd Sukri (CustomWare)
Vikas Sharma

Complete List of Fixes in this Release

JIRA Issues (41 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
CSI-554 sp-list macro is unable to render sub-folders that are multiple levels deep Blocker Resolved
CSI-507 SharePoint Connector returns errors after reinstallation of plugin Critical Resolved
CSI-217 Update SharePoint Permission Checker (permcheck.asmx) web service to support item-level security Critical Resolved
CSI-678 SharePoint Connector 1.2 installation fails when upgrading from a previous version Critical Resolved
CSI-679 Confluence integration tests failing on build server Critical Resolved
CSI-670 SimpleSoapProxy concatenates URL paths incorrectly Critical Resolved
CSI-696 "Show Comments" hyperlink doesn't work in Firefox 3.6 Critical Resolved
CSI-699 Initial load of Confluence Page Webpart with Web Part Connections enabled is always blank Critical Resolved
CSI-431 StringIndexOutOfBoundsException showing up in the logs Major Resolved
CSI-627 Upgrade Confluence plugin to Plugins-2 Major Resolved
CSI-632 Upgrade Confluence plugin to Plugins-2 Major Resolved
CSI-667 Selecting the "select a space" option in the Tree View Webpart space list causes an error Major Resolved
CSI-136 Pages Tree View Web Part - Allow Selection of Page Major Resolved
CSI-285 Allow the web parts to authenticate with Confluence using the email address of the user for the user name Major Resolved
CSI-605 Allow administrators to customise the timeout value for Confluence web service calls Major Resolved
CSI-624 Remove the need for the "Permission Checker" plugin Major Resolved
CSI-471 Display Confluence Comments in webparts Major Resolved
CSI-487 PermCheck Plugin throws Exceptions Major Resolved
CSI-571 Hyperlinks are not underlined when created with the sp-link macro Major Resolved
CSI-575 Breadcrumbs are not displayed when using IE8 and the SharePoint Decorators theme Major Resolved
CSI-576 Confluence page preview does not work when using SharePoint Decorators theme Major Resolved
CSI-597 SharePoint Connector Theme's footer is not anchored to the bottom of the page Major Resolved
CSI-647 Confluence plugin has exploded in size since 1.2.0 release Major Resolved
CSI-671 Add diagnostic logging to the SimpleSoapProxy Major Resolved
CSI-673 SimpleSoapProxy does not handle zero length responses from SharePoint correctly Major Resolved
CSI-674 Upgrade NUnit dependency to latest version Major Resolved
CSI-682 Provide an option for bypassing Confluence permission checking for SharePoint Web Parts Major Resolved
CSI-693 Sharepoint-integrated search plugin module should be disabled by default Major Resolved
CSI-697 The new "Display Comments" option in the Confluence Page webpart should be enabled by default Major Resolved
CSI-698 When "Display Comments" is enabled, the comments should be expanded by default Major Resolved
CSI-548 Use something other than a global SharePoint theme to deploy the custom search box for the SharePoint Connector Major Resolved
CSI-676 Documentation updates for SharePoint Connector 1.3 Major Resolved
CSI-664 Allow specification of SharePoint site in sp-link macro Minor Resolved
CSI-494 Prompt the user to save changes to Confluence configuration in SharePoint Minor Resolved
CSI-550 When no Sharepoint locations are configured in Confluence, an uninformative error message is displayed when using the sp-list macro Minor Resolved
CSI-502 "Confluence Page" WebPart in SharePoint links to incorrect admin URL Minor Resolved
CSI-536 Remove dependence on SOAP Permissions Checker Plug-in Minor Resolved
CSI-614 The word "Dashboard" in breadcrumb is misaligned Minor Resolved
CSI-655 If search settings are not configured properly, federated search results web part remains blank Trivial Resolved
CSI-551 Confluence "Anti-XSS" feature destroys the SharePoint plugin when it is deployed to WEB-INF\lib Trivial Resolved
CSI-672 SimpleSoapProxy Assembly Information refers to the component as "SimpleWebProxy" Trivial Resolved


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