Creating a Blueprint or Content-Creator Plugin for Confluence

Blueprint is a new API in Confluence 5 that allows developers to create new content elements and to hook into the Confluence “create” dialogue – not to be confused with OSGi blueprints, the CSS blueprint framework or Tinkerpop Blueprints here. Content may be added using simple XHTML templates, dynamic templates enriched with data from context providers or even customized JavaScript dialogues. Another feature is, that pages of a specific blueprint type may be aggregated in a collector view that displays all pages created with the specific blueprint ...

March 17, 2013 · 5 min · 922 words · Micha Kops