Comments on: Using the Google Analytics Javascript API to show pageviews from Atlassian Confluence

By: David

David — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:46:31 +0000

Phil: For sure, there is no need to write a custom macro. If your space owners are happy with Google Analytics or another reporting solution you’ve created, then that’s good.

As a bit of a geek, I was really interested in getting to grips with the recently release Atlassian SDK. So I’ve created a Google Analytics reporting plugin. It gives space by space reporting, so adding the macro to the space is a very easy way to embed the usage stats for the current space without any in depth knowledge. The plugin will be documented and released very soon, but it’s already in Atlassian’s svn and Bamboo.

Regarding changes between versions, I’m sure there are issues, e.g. in Confluence 3.1, Atlassian were talking about moving the Javascript to the end of the body for optimisation reasons. This would break a number of plugins and I think they’ve postponed doing it. No doubt I’ll become more aware of this kind of thing as future releases become available

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:14:35 +0000

Not sure I understand why you need to convert it into Java? We embed the username and password for a non-admin account in our JS version of this. A macro would be more elegant but we’ve been bitten by API etc. changes before so use a user macro which calls some external JS which renders some PHP or Java and inserts that into the page. Goes around the houses some but is eminently portable between versions and doesn’t require specialist confluence knowledge to maintain.

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:01:22 +0000

Ste: Not got there yet, but I’ve got the Confluence SDK installed and ready to go. Will hopefully make a start very soon.

By: Ste Daniels

Ste Daniels — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:15:47 +0000

Hi David,

Did you ever get round to writing this up as a Java plugin for Confluence?

Ste Daniels