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Install Comala Publishing

Owned by Robert Alexander Marshall
Last updated: Jan 22, 2024
4 min read
1 Overview | 1.1 Install directly | 1.2 Download and install  | 1.3 Licence validation errors | 1.3.1 Global Configuration

Overview

You can install the Comala Publishing app in these ways:

Once installed you will need to globally configure the app to confirm app user permissions and confirm publishable spaces for space publishing and snapshot publishing.

Install directly

  1. Check if the latest version of the Comala Publishing app is compatible with your Confluence version

  2. Choose Manage apps from the Confluence admin dropdown menu

     

  3. Click Find new apps on the Confluence Admin console

  4. Search for Comalatech  or Content Publishing

     

  5. Select Comala Publishing for Data Center or Server by Appfire

  6. Click Install and enter a license

You may purchase a new license through your my.atlassian.com account.

The installation will install two separate apps to your instance

  • Comala Publishing

Please enter your licence key into this app. This will automatically licence the second app.

  • Snapshots Publishing App

Download and install 

  1. Download the latest version of Comala Publishing from Atlassian Marketplace

  2. Check the latest version is compatible with your Confluence version

  3. Click Manage Apps on the Confluence Admin console

  4. Click Upload App

  5. Select the downloaded Comala Publishing.jar file from your computer

  6. Click Upload


The Comala Publishing app is installed.

If you have a license, enter it or obtain a new license through your my.atlassian.com account.

The installation will install two separate apps to your instance

  • Comala Publishing

Please enter your licence key into this app. This will automatically licence the second app.

  • Snapshots Publishing App

Both apps have to be installed and enabled together. When you install Comala Publishing it installs automatically Snapshot Publishing.

Licence validation errors

If there is no valid licence or the licence is not set for the Comala Publishing app

  • when a publish-page trigger action macro in an applied Comala workflow is executed a warning error is now displayed (and the page is not published)

  • users will be displayed a licence validation error and cannot access the following

    • the space publishing configuration to link the source and target space

    • the copy space configuration

  • Copy space will not be available to action using Postman

  • single page publishing option is not available on any page

Global Configuration

Once installed a global administrator will need to configure the app to configure the Comala Publishing app to set

Spaces that use Publishing

  • the spaces that can publish and sync content. These spaces will also be enabled to copy the space content

  • the spaces that can use snapshot publishing

Space administrators that use publishing

The global administrator will also need to configure the Confluence user groups

  • who can publish and sync content from a source space to a target space

  • who can undertake a one-off copy of space content to a target space

  • who use snapshot publishing in a space

Content copying global configuration options

The global administrator will also be able to

  • edit the global sync-label that can be used as a content filter for publishing or for copying space content

  • edit/amend the content property prefixes to be copied e.g. for metadata