An introduction to speakeasy

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24 November 2012Stefan Kohler

SpeakeasyCustomize JIRA and Confluence in 15 minutes

What is Speakeasy

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An extension mechanism for some of the atlassian products

What’s a Plugin

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๏Add-on to a base application

๏Application-wide enabled

๏Can change applications behavior

๏Can save settings and data

๏Well known plugins

๏Greenhopper

๏Balsamiq Mockups

No Conventional Pluginyou can see extensions as a subset of plugins

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No Conventional Plugin

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Social Augmentative Per User Written in web-standards

๏ All extensions are shared between users

๏ Easy to provide feedback to author

๏ Fork extension and change it

No Conventional Plugin

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Social Augmentative Per User Written in web-standards

๏ Added on top of existing features

๏ Enrichment of the user experience

๏ Turned off, the base product is unchanged

No Conventional Plugin

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Social Augmentative Per User Written in web-standards

๏ users can install, enable and disable their  own  extensions

๏ Able to fork and make personal

๏ Users can only hurt their own UI and experience

No Conventional Plugin

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Social Augmentative Per User Written in web-standards

๏ Extensions are written with๏ HTML๏ JavaScript๏ CSS

๏ Extensions can use ajax and REST api’s

How do you speak easy

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Enabling an extension

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Forking an extension

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Building your own

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Building your own

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Building your own

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Building your own

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Installing Speakeasy

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๏ Speakeasy is a Plugin

๏Needs some configuration

๏Which user-groups are allowed to use

๏Are admins allowed to use (potential risk)

๏Which user-groups can author extensions

๏ Install some basic extensions

ExamplesReal-Life extensions available to you

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Image Attachments

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Buuuuugs!

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Chuck Norris

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Instant Search

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Getting startedhttps://developer.atlassian.com/display/SPEAK/

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