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David Peterson replied on November 27, 2009 15:11 to the question "It's possible to add default row on table-data ?" in CustomWare:

Yeah, it's a tricky one. You could have it outside the {live-template} call, but then you're a bit limited on its placement.

David Peterson replied on November 27, 2009 14:21 to the question "It's possible to add default row on table-data ?" in CustomWare:

What's your actual use case? You can specify 'initialRows=5', or whatever number you want, but you can't really default the data values therin. Also, they don't actually save as values until you hit save.

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David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 12:50 to the problem "content-options lists all pages" in CustomWare:

My guess is that you have something like this:


{content-options:parent=Space:Page}{content-options}


To fix it, just remove the 'closing' {content-options} macro. {content-options} doesn't have a body (at least, in the older versions of the plugin, so adding the closer will actually call it again with the default settings, which is is to list all pages in the current space.

David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 03:55 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

Where is the 'get-data' macro call coming from???

It's a bit difficult for me to give good advice without knowing exactly what you're trying to achieve, unfortunately.

You can get some more information about writing reports from the Recipe Book on our website. There is also a webinar we did a while back, which you can find here (slides here). And, we do offer training for Scaffolding and Reporting. If you're interested, shoot us an email.

David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 02:53 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

Ah. I wasn't even aware that the metadata-from plugin would retrieve Scaffolding data at all...

Can it be rewritten to use Reporting macros instead? They are much more tolerant of missing data. Eg:


{metadata:Gate1}{report-on:injected=true}{report-info:data:G1|source=Gate 1 - %content:title%}{report-on} {metadata}


It seems like an overly-complex situation in general though. Could you not just write reports that get the data directly from the Gate pages, rather than squeezing them into parent metadata?

David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 02:07 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

Ok, that creates the date-data. Can you post the wiki code from the child page that is trying to use it?

David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 01:48 to the question "How to count pages with grouping reporter?" in CustomWare:

Hey there,

I've checked in a fix the the problem. Not sure when a new official release of the plugin will be out, but you can manually download the SNAPSHOT release and upload it into Confluence in the interim.

If you find any bugs with the fix, please post them as comments in the REPOR-274 issue.

David Peterson replied on November 26, 2009 01:20 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

So which part of that code is failing exactly? I can't see any that uses a date-data value to create a page...

David Peterson replied on November 25, 2009 14:50 to the question "How to count pages with grouping reporter?" in CustomWare:

Ok, just took a squiz. Looks like it almost works for queries. Essentially, there's a bug where it's missing an extra case for Query objects in one spot, so currently we're getting back nothing. Working on an update.

David Peterson replied on November 25, 2009 14:42 to the question "Perimeter plug-in gives error message: "Error formatting macro: secure-include: java..." in CustomWare:

Hi Corey,

Sorry for the delays, but unfortunately this particular plugin is pretty low on our priority list.

As callous as it sounds, the fastest way to get the plugin updated would be to pay someone to update it. It is an open source plugin, so theoretically anyone could do it, but we would also be happy to. If you'd like to set it up with us, shoot us an email. Otherwise, the link to the source code is here.

I understand it's frustrating, but it's an economic reality at the moment, unfortunately. Sorry I can't give a better answer at present!

David Peterson replied on November 25, 2009 11:40 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

Could you please post the wiki markup for the macro you're using to create the child pages?

David Peterson replied on November 23, 2009 08:27 to the problem "Memory usage keeps growing until a crash" in CustomWare:

Memory usage is most likely to be related to Scaffolding, since it's the only one of those plugins that actually keeps anything in memory. Reporting may use a fair bit of memory in a single execution, but doesn't hold onto anything, but it could also be a contributor, depending on what the reporters are.

For starters, I would suggest creating a bug report for Scaffolding, where you can upload your templates, and we'll go from there.

David Peterson replied on November 23, 2009 08:24 to the question "Can I save report data as a .csv file?" in CustomWare:

Unfortunately not really, without building a custom plugin. You can access the XML data for pages, simply by going to "<path>/pages/scaffold/viewxml.action?pageId=XXX", but I'm not sure it can be imported into Excel.

Part of the challenge will be that the data doesn't match up nicely to an Excel spreadsheet - with some sections being individual fields, others being multiple rows of fields (table-data), I'm not sure how you would do a simple map from one to the other.

If you'd like to commission us to do build something, please email us. Otherwise, check out the Scaffolding source code, and/or the Confluence Metadata Library, which provides access to the underlying data storage API.</path>

David Peterson replied on November 23, 2009 08:21 to the question "Importing CSV data into confluence" in CustomWare:

Unfortunately not really, without building a custom plugin. If you'd like to commission us to do so, please email us. Otherwise, check out the Scaffolding source code, and/or the Confluence Metadata Library, which provides access to the underlying data storage API.

A comment on the question "How do you sort each collection in a set of collections that is returned by a report?" in CustomWare:

Try removing the filter initially, to see if that's the issue. If all pages show up again, try fiddling with the filter to see what breaks it. – David Peterson, on November 20, 2009 02:22

A comment on the question "How to count pages with grouping reporter?" in CustomWare:

Well, technically the variable is an Query, which produces iterators, not a collection, so it this may not actually work. I'll have to dip into the code. Ping me again in a day or two if I don't get back to you. – David Peterson, on November 19, 2009 15:53

David Peterson replied on November 19, 2009 06:16 to the question "{date-data} does not show up until page has been saved" in CustomWare:

What kind of page are you wanting to create that will use a blank value exactly?

David Peterson replied on November 19, 2009 06:14 to the question "Using report tables with chart macro" in CustomWare:

Yeah, this was a bug in the Chart plugin which I thought had been resolved in the latest release. I checked in a fix a while back...

If it's not in the current release, you can get the absolute latest-and-greatest from here - just download the plugin jar an install it yourself via Admin > Plugins > Upload Plugin.

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