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Allgemein

Confluence Excel Macro: Last Row and Column is Not Working

If you encounter the issue, that the „last row“ and „last column“ setting is not working in Confluence´s Excel macro, this is a pitty. As to find in the comments of the official bug report (including steps about how to reproduce) at Atlassian (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31741), they won´t fix this issue, because the Excel macro is deprecated.

Since I´m using the macro quite heavily, I´ve played a bit around and found the following workaround that might be also working for you:

  1. Add your Excel attachment
  2. Add the Excel macro
  3. Set last row/ column
  4. Save the page
  5. Edit the page
  6. Add a new version of your Excel attachment
  7. Save the page

Now the settings in „last row/ column“ are applied correctly.

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Fun

Return to Sender – Software Test Version

Return to Sender – Software Test Version

I had to submit a new defect,
looked like a major bug.
But as development received it,
they reassigned right back.

They wrote upon it:
Return to sender, runs with our mock,
must be environment, ain’t no bug.
They send their package, once it compiled,
and all no matter how many bug reports I filed.

Then i attached a bunch of log files,
and screen shots, two or three.
But just a minute at the coders‘
and it came back to me.

They wrote upon it:
Return to sender, can’t reproduce,
No such requirement, your test is screwed.

Next package we get for deployment,
I’m going to inspect,
And with a bit of schadenfreude,
I’m going to send it back.

I’ll write upon it:
Return to sender, does not install
when strictly clinging, to your manual.
Da-dab-dee-da-da
Return to sender
Return to sender
Return to sender

Via Christian Loch on Google+

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Fun Testing

How to make your bug report most useless for your team mates

The idea of writing a blog post like this was in my mind for quite a while already, but as too often, I was just procrastinating. Today I have been busy retesting (and closing) a lot of items from our defect tracking system (DTS) and started writing down the following items, as I stumbled upon them (and as they came to my mind as I remembered them from previous projects).

Of course I´m exaggerating a bit on some of the listed items, but all of them are real examples of what I´ve experienced in the past. 😉

So here it is, my (not-yet-complete) list of things to do, to make your bug report most useless for your team mates (none ordered):

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Allgemein

QuickLinks for April 2011

Here a quick list of articles I´ve read during the last month:

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Allgemein WWW

QuickLinks for January 2011

Here a quick list of articles I´ve read during the last month: