User Side

Atlassian Confluence

Getting Started with Confluence
Creating Content
Sharing Content
Managing Changes and Notifications and Tasks
Finding Content
Organizing Content
Customizing Confluence
Giving People Access to Content
Using Confluence on a Mobile Device
Advanced and Special Uses of Confluence
Confluence User Side

About Confluence
Dashboard
Page in View Mode
Confluence Glossary
Keyboard Shortcuts





Getting Started with Confluence

We can use Confluence to collaborate on writing and sharing content with our team.
Confluence provides extra functionality that transforms it into a social collaboration
platform: We can,
Add a space for your team, then add a page or comment on someone else's page.
Share content by writing a blog post, sharing a link or calling someone's attention to
a page via @mentions.
Form a social network and tell people what you are doing via a status update.
Add images, picture galleries, videos and more.
About Confluence
The dashboard is the front page of the Confluence site. It provides an overview of the
site, gives access to the spaces that you have permission to view, and displays a few
different lists of the most recently updated content.
Dashboard
The images below show the menus and other controls on a typical Confluence page using the
default theme. The sidebar is on the left and the body is on the right of the page










Page in View Mode
Administration Console: It is the interface for the global administration of
Confluence (Accessed only by Admin).
Administrators/ Site / System / Confluence Administrators: The Confluence
permission scheme allows the following main levels of administrator permissions:
System Administrator full administrative access to Confluence.
Confluence Administrator access to most of the Confluence administrative
functions, but excluding those which could compromise the security of the
Confluence system.
Camel Case (for wiki links): In Confluence, Camel casing can be turned on from
the Administration Console.
Change Comment: It is a short description entered during the edit of a page to
record the changes being made in the edit.
Child Pages: Creating child pages is a means of hierarchically organizing content
in Confluence. A child page can only have one parent page.
Comments: A comment may be a remark, question, or any other additional
information you wish to add to a page pertaining to the topic the page covers. You
can comment on any page or news item in Confluence.
Confluence Glossary
Custom Decorators: Decorator files are used to define layouts in Confluence.
They are vmd files and require knowledge of the language, Velocity, to edit.
Dashboard: The dashboard is the front page of a Confluence site. It provides an
overview of the site, access to all spaces, and displays a list of the most recently
updated content within them.
Form Field Markup: It is a specialized markup used when creating page templates
in Confluence 4.2 and earlier. It is no longer needed, because the template editor
offers form fields as an option in the editor toolbar.
Global Administrators: Same as a system administrator.
Global Spaces: Known as Site Spaces, contain content on any theme or topic of
your choice.
Hover Profile: The hover profile is the pop-up you see when the mouse pointer
pauses over a Confluence user's name. Use the hover profile to follow the user,
visit their profile, and more.
JIRA: JIRA is Atlassian's award winning Issue tracking and project management
application.
Labels: User-defined tag words assigned to pages to categorize content in
Confluence.
Macros: A command wrapped inside curly braces {...} used to perform
programmatic functions and generate more complex content structures in
Confluence.
Confluence Glossary
Blog Posts: It may be a journal entry, status report or any other timely information
pertaining to a space.
Notifications: An email message sent to you updating you of changes to pages &
spaces you choose to 'watch'.
Orphaned Pages: An orphaned page is a page without any incoming links.
Pages: Pages are the primary means of storing information in Confluence and are
the building blocks of spaces.
Parent Page: A parent page is a page that has one or more child pages. It may
itself be a child of another page.
People Directory: Contains a list of all users in Confluence site, each user's name
links to their personal space.
Permalink: A permalink is the URL used to link to specific content items like
comments.
Personal Spaces: Personal spaces belong to particular users, and rather than
being listed on the Dashboard, are available from the People Directory.
RSS Feeds: It is a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web
content. RSS is read by RSS newsreader programs. You will need an RSS reader
to subscribe to feeds within Confluence.
RSS Reader: Specialized RSS program (also called aggregator) that displays the
contents of RSS feeds for you.
Confluence Glossary
Site Spaces (Global spaces): Contain content on any theme or topic of your
choice.
Space Administrators: User with the 'Space Admin' permission for the space. He
can perform a host of functions relating to the management of a space and has
complete access to the space regardless of any other control settings or
permissions. Permissions for a space are only assigned and modified by space
administrators.
Spaces: A space is an area within Confluence, containing your pages, blog posts
and other content. You can think of each space as a sub-site, or mini-site, each with
its own home page. Two types of spaces: site spaces and personal spaces.
Templates: A pre-defined page that can be used as a prototype when creating
pages. Templates are useful for giving pages a common style or format.
Themes: Themes are pre-defined 'look and feel' styles which are configured from
the administration menu and can be applied across Confluence or to a single
space.
Thumbnails: As of Confluence 4.0, all images on the page that aren't links are
displayed as thumbnails: when you click on an image the full-size image is
displayed in a pop-up.
Tiny links: Shortened URL of a page which is useful when sending links to the
page, Eg. via email.
Confluence Glossary
Trackback: A mechanism by which two sites can stay informed each time one site
refers to the other by means of trackback 'pings'. In Confluence, Trackback is
enabled from the Administration Console.
Trackback Auto discovery: A block of code that can be placed in a web-page to
describe where trackback pings should be sent for that page. When Trackback is
enabled, Confluence uses Trackback Auto discovery to ping pages that are linked
to, and to advertise its own pages as being able to receive pings.
Undefined Links: A link to a page that has not yet been created. Clicking on the
page link allows you create the page.
User Profile: Every user account in Confluence is linked to a profile that contains
user related information and options to configuring user preferences.
Watching a Page or Blog Post: When you watch a page, you are sent an email
notification whenever that page has been modified.
Watching a Space: When you watch a space, you are sent an email notification
whenever content has been added or modified in that space.
Wiki: Pioneered by Ward Cunningham, and named after the Hawaiian word for
'quick', a wiki is a website that makes it easy for anyone to contribute pages, and
link them together.
Wiki Markup: This is the markup used to write and edit page templates in
Confluence.
Confluence Glossary

There are a few ways to see this keyboard shortcuts dialog:
Choose the help icon (?) at top right of the screen, and then choose Keyboard
Shortcuts
When viewing a page, press Shift+?
In the editor, choose the question mark icon on the editor toolbar






Keyboard Shortcuts

Using the Editor
Creating Attractive and Dynamic Pages
Working with Templates
Working with Blueprints
Working with the Office Connector
Importing Content Into Confluence




Creating Content
Creating a Space
Creating a Page/ Blog post
Using the Editor











Creating Attractive and Dynamic Pages











Working with Templates











Working with Blueprints











Working with the Office Connector











Importing Content Into Confluence

Network Overview
Likes and Popular Content
User Status Updates
Using Mentions
Emailing a Page
Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to Other Formats
Commenting on pages and blog posts
Printing Confluence Pages


Sharing Content











Network Overview











Likes and Popular Content











User Status Updates











Using Mentions











Emailing a Page











Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to Other
Formats











Commenting on pages and blog posts











Printing Confluence Pages

Watching a Page or Blog Post
Watching a Space
Managing Watchers
Subscribing to Email Notifications of Updates to Confluence Content
Subscribing to RSS Feeds within Confluence
Managing Notifications in Confluence
Managing Tasks in Confluence



Managing Changes and Notifications
and Tasks











Watching a Page or Blog Post











Watching a Space











Managing Watchers











Subscribing to Email Notifications of
Updates to Confluence Content

An RSS feed is a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content.
Subscribing to an RSSfeed allows you to stay informed of the latest content from sites
that you are interested in.
Subscribing to RSS Feeds within
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Managing Notifications in Confluence











Managing Tasks in Confluence

Searching Confluence
Searching the People Directory








Finding Content











Searching Confluence











Searching the People Directory

Working with Pages
Working with Blog Posts
Working with Spaces
Working with Mail Archives
Working with Confluence Labels
Working with Favourites
Working with Attachments



Organizing Content











Working with Pages











Working with Blog Posts











Working with Spaces











Working with Mail Archives











Working with Confluence Labels











Working with Favourites











Working with Attachments

Personal Customizations
Customizing the Look and Feel of a Confluence Space
Requesting Add-ons







Customizing Confluence











Personal Customizations











Customizing the Look and Feel of
a Confluence Space











Requesting Add-ons

Page Restrictions
Site Administrators and their Permissions
Space Administrators and their Permissions
Space Permissions Overview
Users and Groups





Giving People Access to Content







Page Restrictions











Site Administrators and
their Permissions











Space Administrators and
their Permissions











Space Permissions Overview











Users and Groups
When you view a Confluence page on a mobile device, such as an iPhone or an iPad, Confluence
will display an optimised version of the page.
On your phone or other supported mobile device, you can
View the Confluence dashboard, pages, blog posts, and user profiles.
Add a comment to a page or blog post.
Like a page, blog post or comment.
Manage your personal tasks and notifications
You cannot add or edit pages or blog posts, or edit existing comments, using the mobile interface
Using Confluence on a Mobile Device

Working with Confluence Markup
Working with Confluence Gadgets
Developing Technical Documentation on Confluence Wiki
Developing a Knowledge Base on Confluence Wiki
Developing an Intranet on Confluence Wiki





Advanced and Special Uses of
Confluence
Confluence Storage Format - XHTML





Working with Confluence Markup






Working with Confluence Markup






Working with Confluence Gadgets

Step 1. Add your space
Step 2. Set the space permissions
Step 3. Customize the title and content of the space home page
Step 4. Customize the Documentation theme
Step 5. Create an inclusions library
Step 6. Create the table of contents
Step 7. (Optional) Customize the PDF layout and stylesheet
Step 8. Save your new space as a template
Developing Technical Documentation on
Confluence Wiki

Step 1. Add a space and select the Documentation theme
Step 2. Set the space permissions
Step 3. Customize the title and content of the home page
Step 4. Customize the Documentation theme
Step 5. Create an inclusions library to manage reusable content
Step 6. Create the table of contents
Step 7. Give people an RSS feed they can subscribe to
Step 8. Set up Atlassian's Content Survey and Reporting add-on
Step 9. Insert Google Analytics code into Confluence's custom HTML


Developing a Knowledge Base on
Confluence Wiki

Step 1. Create a space
Step 2. Set the space permissions
Step 3. Customize the title and content of the home page
Step 4. Subscribe to email notifications for updates made to the space
Step 5. Attach or import Office documents, if applicable
Step 6. Import page templates and blueprints
Step 8. Publish a blog post



Developing an Intranet on
Confluence Wiki
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