Confluence Uploader

Template-based, CSV feeded mass-creation for and upload of articles to Confluence.

Installation

Important: Run the scripts provided in scripts from that directory.

Installing Python

Python 3.10 is required. Here is a manual for installing Python on different operating systems. Additionally, the package manager pip is needed. Usually, it is already provided with a standard installation, but in case it is not, you need to install it manually.

Depending on your operating system and file association configuration, the python command may be python3 and pip may be pip3.

Installing the required modules

You can install the required modules in multiple ways:

• On Windows, run scripts/install.bat
• On Linux, run scripts/install.sh
• Alternatively, install the required modules listed in requirements.txt via pip install -r requirements.txt
• ... or manually

It it recommended to generate an API token on Confluence, which, together with an username, then can be used for authentication with this program.

Starting the program

• Run python start.py in the root directory.
• Alternatively, use scripts/run.bat or scripts/run.sh.

Minimal configuration

The configuration properties in config/config.ini and config/uploader_config.ini contain explanatory comments. Consult those in case you're not sure about the meaning of specific configuration properties.

GUI Mode

If you're using the default configuration, you will configure the program via a GUI. This GUI will show you which properties are required.

Console Mode

If you're not using the GUI (set user_gui in config/config.ini to false), then you have to configure the program manually via config/uploader_config.ini. The following properties have to be specified:

• base_url
• template_id
• upload_space
• and data_csv. The other properties use default values.

Documentation

• A short manual and an error catalog can be found at ./docs/manual.md. Most errors in the program are logged with an error ID, which you can lookup in the error catalog for an explanation.
• Contact the author via florian-f.haas@msg.group if questions not covered by existing documentation arise.

Dev installation

• If you want to run the supplied unit tests, you need the additional requirements specified in test/requirements-test.txt. You can install them via pip install -r requirements.txt.
• Alternatively, install them via scripts/install-dev.bat or scripts/install-dev.sh.

Testing

• Modules excluded from test coverage measurement are logger.py, gui.py, start.py and constants.py, as well as everything in the ./test/ folder.
• # pragma: no cover comments tell the coverage tool to ignore the marked statement/body.
• You can run the tests manually or via run-tests.bat/run-tests.sh in scripts.

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 msg systems ag

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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