Introduction

The Countdown Timer Plugin is a Confluence macro that displays a countdown timer based on given date. 

The following video clip is an example which how Santas Claus uses it to keep track of time to give out Christmas gifts

Installation

There are 2 ways of installing depending whether your Confluence server has a direct connection to the Internet

With Internet Connection

1. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
2. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
3. On the left sidebar, click on Find New Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
4. Enter countdown in the textbox labelled with Search the Marketplace
5. Click on the blue Install button to install the plugin
6. Wait for the installation process to complete and click on the Close button
7. Click on the Manage button to proceed with the configuration

Without Internet Connection

1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the Atlassian Marketplace
2. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
3. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
4. On the left sidebar, click on Manage Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
5. Click on the Upload Plugin link to bring up the Upload Plugin dialog box
6. Click on the Browse button and select the jar file (e.g. countdown-1.0.jar ) that you have downloaded previously 
7. Click on the Upload button to upload the plugin
8. Click on the Close button to acknowledge

Configuration

A license key is required for the plugin to work. 

To get the license key

1. Go to Service Desk (Request a License)
2. Fill in the required information and click on the Submit button
3. The license key will be emailed to the given email address

To update the license key to the Confluence server

1. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
2. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
3. On the left sidebar, click on Manage Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
4. Search for the Countdown Timer under the User-installed Plugins
5. Click on it once to expand the details
6. Click on the Configure button to go to Countdown timer Plugin Admin page
7. Fill in the details and click on the Submit button

Usage

Adding the macro

The macro can be added in 2 ways

• By typing out the macro 
  

• By selecting from the Macro Browser
  
  
  

Editing the parameters

To modify the parameters,

1. Click on the countdown placeholder to bring up the Edit option
   
2. Change the parameters accordingly (Refer to the explanation of the parameters in the section below)
    
3. click on Save button to update the changes

Parameters

Acknowledgements

The plugin was developed based on the jquery-countdown javascript at https://github.com/pfarmer/jquery-countdown