Description/Features
A hybrid java/flash plugin originally designed for visualizing student activity on a wiki, mainly by providing the teacher of a class of wiki-using students a way to quickly get an impression of who's busy and doing what.
However, as the project advanced, the plugin became more of a general tool for displaying the flow of page changes by confluence group members within a confluence space. But be warned; querying confluence for this data is a time consuming operation, so don't use this plugin if level of user activity has been high. Try it out with few users and documents first.
Features:
- Innovative approach to activity visualization
- Toggle which users to show
- Toggle the relations between of pages, comments and labels in the gui
- Optional condensed view in order to view the whole timeline without scrolling
- Time line scrollbar for fast skimming through history
This plugin can logically be divided into two parts.
- The Java plugin churns out XML based on the parameters it is invoked with (see usage below).
- The Adobe flash application (written in actionscript 3) picks up the XML and draws a nice GUI where you can view different types of wiki activity.
The velocity template is the glue that binds these two pieces together: It both contains the XML supplied by the java plugin, and it is also where the flash object is embedded.
The originating project is codenamed TWEAK
.
Usage
- Download and install the java plugin
on your favourite Confluence instance.
- Download the flash file and make it http accessible. E.g. on a plain old web server or as a confluence attachment.
- Invoke the swimlane macro on any confluence page, using this syntax: {swimlane:spaceKey=someSpace|group=myConfluenceGroup|flashObjectUrl=someUrl}
Note that the flash object (the .swf file) must reside on the same server as the Confluence instance you are using. Alternatively, you can configure a cross-domain policy file.
Examples
A small example.
Version History
1.0 is the current version
Screenshots
