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Simple piece of included Javascript not working for me :(

Alan Whooley
Alan Whooley October 5, 2018

Hi,

I have a simple Javascript.

alert('hello world!');

I have saved this in a file called simple.js in 

/opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/includes/resources

 

My 'HTML Macro' contains:

<!doctype html>
<html>

<title>My Web Page</title>
<head>
<script src="/includes/resources/simple.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>alert('hello world inline!');</script>
</head>
<body>
Random Text...<br>
<img src="/includes/resources/logo.png" height="30px">
</body>

</html>

The inline alert is presented by Confluence but the one that should come from the included Javascript simple.js is not. I am not a Javascript expert so I could be doing something stupid, but the same code on a standalone browser works fine.

Any advice or pointers as to why it might not be working would be appreciated. Note that Iogo.png displays fine...done as a sanity check to verify I had the path correct. The console debugger does not show anything obvious work either.

Regards

Alan

 

 

 

 

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October 6, 2018

You can, of course, code your Javascript to only act if the URL matches your page.

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Alan Whooley
Alan Whooley October 6, 2018

Cheers. Thanks for you inputs on this. 

To explain some more, the 3rd party tool produces an index.html that references a library of Javascript and  css. The data is then actually stored in a .zip file that the Javascript extracts and displays through the index.html.

My hope was that I could place the library of Javascript and css in a central location untouched, place the index.html code in a HTML macro and update its references to the Javascript library to the new Confluence based location. How I would handle the .zip file of data would be a whole different question that I'd need to figure that out too! As mentioned, I don't want to edit the Javascript library if at all possible. Editing the index.html code is a trivial task, but having to edit multiple files in the library would be painful,and hopefully avoidable. 

From what I can see I can get the Confluence to pick up the style sheets from the central location but not the Javascript for some reason. Hence the trivial piece of code above I am using as a test. If I can't get this to execute I've no chance with the more complete solution. 

 

Best Regards 

Alan 

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October 6, 2018

If that's the case, you should consider writing a Confluence plugin to consume the endpoint that you are talking about and display the output as a functionality in Confluence.

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If you're going to do some simple Javascript, why don't you use the Custom HTML (admin/viewcustomhtml.action) functionality in Confluence?

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Alan Whooley
Alan Whooley October 6, 2018

Hi,

Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that the Javascript in custom html is executed for all pages whereas I only want my Javascript executed for a single page within my Confluence environment.

In reality I am trying to embed a 3rd party HTML report that's based on Javascript into Confluence so that it lives beside several other pages on the same topic. 

 

Regards 

Alan

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