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ConfiForms add-on is developed and maintained by Vertuna LLC, established in 2005 and based in Estonia, Tallinn. We are Atlassian Verified partner (now the program is called Top Vendor) since , no called Silver level Atlassian partner) since 2015

You can contact us directly via the button below and we aim to answer you within 48 hours, but in most cases much faster (smile)

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ConfiForms stores data in your database, same database you Confluence is using. Where exactly depends on the version of ConfiForms you are using. If you are on version 1.x of ConfiForms please consider upgrading to Data Center ready and much more performant 2.x version of ConfiForms. Please see Release Notes for details

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Version 3.xSame storage as in version 2.x, see below
Version 2.xConfiForms stores data in your Confluence database in a table "AO_CEFA84_CONFI_FORMS_ENTITY", one record per row. There are no limits on on the dataset size per form in ConfiForms, but your database is limited to holding the total of 2,147,483,647 records (for all the forms). And the size of the record is limited by the number of characters your database can hold in a CLOB type field (ConfiForms limit is 2,147,483,647 bytes per record).
Version 1.x

ConfiForms stores data in page metadata table called OS_PROPERTYENTRY. Internally the data is stored as XML. As the data is stored as page metadata it becomes a part of Confluence standard backup and restrore procedure. But this also introduces the limits - we are able store (within one form) as much as the "text_val" field in "OS_PROPERTYENTRY" table can accomodate. You can have multiple ConfiForms, this limit is per form. For example, when Confluence uses MySQL database then this field type is MEDIUMTEXT which has a limit of 16MBs (which you can easily ALTER to be of a larger size). 

There are no limits on the number of forms and fields per form you can have.

ConfiForms cloud is different, see Data storage types: ConfiForms native vs Atlassian content properties 


What is storage What is storage format?

When we ask you to provide us with a storage format for your page configuration - here this is what we mean.

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It allows us to import the contents directly to our test server and see exactly the configuration you have, and to help you with troubleshooting the issues you might have, a lot faster.

Atlassian documentation on storage format - https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-storage-format-790796544.html

How do I see the version of ConfiForms

This is easy when you already have a form (ConfiForms Form macro). It requires you to do the following 2 steps


How many records could I save into ConfiForms?

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With ConfiForms version 2.x there are no set limits on the number of records. See Where ConfiForms stores data?

Where do I see the license SEN for ConfiForms

Same as with ConfiForms version - see above. You create a simple form and then use "Admin UI" to show you the stored data (View/Edit stored data). And the table footer will display the SEN and the version number for you

How many records could I save into ConfiForms?

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With ConfiForms version 2.x there are no set limits on the number of records. See Where ConfiForms stores data?


Below is valid for ConfiForms version 1.x

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Please note that the numbers shown above are not reference numbers but just a snapshot of how ConfiForms performs on a very low level hardware. Please also note that the tables it renders are very huge in size and in normal life you will not output something like 1500 records to your users on a page just for fun...

 


I have a feature request - what shall I do?

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What happens with the data stored when the ConfiForms plugin gets disabled/uninstalled

[SERVER/DATA CENTER] Nothing. The data stored with ConfiForms plugin is stored as page metadata and remains in the database even if uninstall the plugin.

[CLOUD] Data will be removed within 2-3 months. You can also request it to be removed earlier if needed

ConfiForms plugin is not a replacement for your Jira

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Another workaround is to type your field reference in some plaintext editor and copy it directly to Confluence editor 

ConfiForms is slower to render on Confluence 6.x than on Confluence 5

We have also noticed that - the same plugin code renders slower in Confluence 6 than in Confluence 5. In fact. our macros rendering is not that slower (How to enable debug logging for ConfiForms app), however, the output to user is sent considerably slower than in Confluence 5.

Or as follows - type [] then press ctrl+Z and start typing your expression inside the brackets

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Another workaround suggested by one of our customers

  1. Type [[]
  2. And then fill in the expression between the [], removing one extra leading opening bracket


ConfiForms is slower to render on Confluence 6.x than on Confluence 5

We have also noticed that - the same plugin code renders slower in Confluence 6 than in Confluence 5. In fact. our macros rendering is not that slower (How to enable debug logging for ConfiForms app), however, the output to user is sent considerably slower than in Confluence 5.

We think, that this We think, that this might be one of the reasons https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/slow-page-rendering-of-large-pages-due-to-http-post-limitations-183137.html

We have also noticed that rendering times (in fact the time used to sent the rendered output to user) has been improved in Confluence 6.8.x, but is still is slower than on Confluence 5. We are continuing to investigate this issue and looking for solutions.

Why ConfiForms creates a broken page from Confluence template

Using ConfiForms app as template engine to create pages in Confluence#WhyConfiFormscreatesabrokenpagefromConfluencetemplate

Why ConfiForms "auto wraps" everything with ConfiForms ListView on a created page

Using ConfiForms app as template engine to create pages in Confluence#WhyConfiForms%22autowraps%22everythingwithConfiFormsListViewonacreatedpage


ConfiForms cannot create a Jira issue - I am getting lot's of errors I don't understand

Best tutorial to start with is Creating Jira issue from Confluence with ConfiForms

Look at the pages mentioned below to learn what your Jira may expect as an input format for a certain field type and how you can prepare the values from ConfiForms to be in the format your Jira expects

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