Summary

Disabling the Confluence Mobile Plugin also disables the Workbox - Host Plugin in Confluence 5.9.X. The same behavior is not present in Confluence 5.8.X.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to Manage Add-ons in a Confluence 5.9.x instance
2. Find the 'Confluence Mobile Plugin'
3. Disable the plugin
4. Refresh the page
5. Find the 'Workbox - Host Plugin' and notice it is also disabled

Expected Results

• The 2 add-ons should not be dependent on each other. 

Actual Results

The below exception is thrown in the Confluence logs:

2016-02-15 10:27:18,091 INFO [http-nio-127.0.0.101-8080-exec-2] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] disablePlugins Found dependent enabled plugins for plugin 'com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-mobile': [com.atlassian.mywork.mywork-confluence-host-plugin(MANDATORY)].  Disabling...
2016-02-15 10:27:18,092 INFO [http-nio-127.0.0.101-8080-exec-2] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] broadcastPluginDisabling Disabling com.atlassian.mywork.mywork-confluence-host-plugin

NOTES / Workaround:

Additional side effect:

• Disabling - Confluence Mobile Plugin
  • Causes - Workbox - Host Plugin to become disable
• Disabling - Workbox - Host Plugin
  • Causes - Confluence Mobile Rest to become disabled
• Disabling: Confluence Mobile Rest
  • Causes - Workbox - Confluence Provider Plugin To become disabled

You must have the add-ons enable in the following order to re-enable (Relates to This Article about enabling the Workbox Plugin ):

• Confluence Mobile Plugin
• Workbox - Common Plugin (If disable / did not chain disable in testing)
• Workbox - Confluence Provider Plugin
• Workbox - Host Plugin
• Confluence Mobile Rest

Restart Confluence, flushing caches as described here (For Cloud this will require filing a support request at https://support.atlassian.com)

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Plugins+are+disabled+at+startup+and+various+timeout+errors+appear+in+the+logs+after+startup

  <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins
  <confluence-home>/plugins-cache
  <confluence-home>/plugins-osgi-cache
  <confluence-home>/plugins-temp
  <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins_language
  

• Manually Trigger a content-index at this point, or the spaces will not be visable
• Note that if you take the SQL route in the document above, only remove the following 2 bandanavalue's unless there are other system plugins you also want to re-enable:

    <entry>
      <string>com.atlassian.mywork.mywork-confluence-provider-plugin</string>
      <boolean>false</boolean>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <string>com.atlassian.mywork.mywork-confluence-host-plugin</string>
      <boolean>false</boolean>
    </entry>