Stream: JIRA/Confluence
Topic: WG blogs
Dave deBronkart (Sep 14 2020 at 20:13):
Hi @Joshua Procious - over in the Patient Empowerment WG we're considering using our Confluence blog, because we're actively looking at engaging the public and welcoming others interested in the patient POV. We also have a couple of teams working on things, and they need a way to publish things that's somewhere between Zulip and our own personal/corporate blogs.
Today @John Keyes wondered if the PE WG Confluence page can contain multiple blogs, or if the one blog can be split to sub-blog, so each team's work can be selectively displayed. In response I wondered if the posts can have categories or tags, like my site's FHIR category. But I don't see a tags or category feature, and the Confluence [help page on blog posts[(https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blog-posts-834222533.html) doesn't mention one. Any ideas?
David Johnson (Sep 14 2020 at 20:13):
Dave, Josh is off today but will be able to pick up this question tomorrow morning.
Dave deBronkart (Sep 14 2020 at 20:14):
How kind of you to respond so quickly, @David Johnson ! No hurry - thanks.
Joshua Procious (Sep 15 2020 at 14:21):
Good morning @Dave deBronkart Thank you for your patience on this. While Confluence cannot have "multiple blogs" per space it will allow the attachment of labels to a blog post. Then, on a Confluence page/page-tree a blog-post macro can be setup and parameterized to listen for specific labels. Here is a sample of what the blog label section looks like: image.png
Here is an example of the macro listener on a Confluence page: image.png
Dave deBronkart (Sep 15 2020 at 14:43):
DUH I should have recognized the tag icon! Thanks. Off to poke some things.
Dave deBronkart (Sep 15 2020 at 15:02):
@Joshua Procious it's weird that the tag / label icon doesn't appear on the published post - only while I'm editing. Anyway, for future visitors to this thread, I'll note that the selected label appears at end of post, and clicking it will (I presume) bring up others with that label. That's what we need, especially since we can share the label's URL with interested parties to help them find the relevant content: https://confluence.hl7.org/label/PE/experiments
Joshua Procious (Sep 16 2020 at 15:09):
Hello Dave, this is appropriate behavior. If you look at the bottom of the published page, it will show the labels. It is annoying that they push it to the bottom but it's still there. Also, you can change the labels on a published page by clicking on the "tag" icon next to the label list at the bottom.
Dave deBronkart (Sep 16 2020 at 16:58):
Understood and thanks, @Joshua Procious . I am somewhat handicapped by being accustomed to how other blog systems work, and of course Confluence makes no effort to be like anything else :-) I do understand it now, and it will serve our needs.
Interestingly, I suspect that THESE labels catch everything on the whole Confluence PE page, not just the blog. Is that right?
Joshua Procious (Sep 16 2020 at 17:03):
You're welcome Dave! You're right listening for general labels will display everything. However, there is a blog macro that can live on a Confluence page that will only listen for blog's with a certain label. I've mocked one up in the PE space here for you to check out: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/PE/PE+Blog+-+Experiments+Label
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