About Confluence Server
Server URL: learning.sd.polyu.edu.hk
Current version: Confluence v5.10.3
Learning Resources
- Confluence Demonstration Video (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/demo)
This web site includes a video on overview of features of the team-collaboration platform called Confluence from Atlassian.
The entire video runs for almost an hour.
Documentations on Confluence (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-documentation-home-135922.html)
Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces (https://www.atlassian.com/collaboration/confluence-organize-work-in-spaces)
This introduces some core concepts in using Confluence for organizing your work
- You can access to the whole series of the Confluence 101 ebook from https://www.atlassian.com/dms/wac/ebook/confluence-101-getting-started-in-confluence.pdf
Getting Started (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf510/get-started-829076919.html for Confluence v5.10)
A number of tutorials on how to navigate in Confluence
Left side menu for accessing to documents on various features in Confluence
Highlighted features:
On the Dashboard:
Activity Stream (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf510/activity-stream-gadget-829077871.html)
for showing recent activities of users in Confluence and in each space
Space Directory (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf510/the-space-directory-829076945.html)
- for showing available spaces
- mark those which are frequently used for display under the My Spaces in the Dashboard
Site spaces and favourite spaces – for showing available spaces and those marked as favorite
Top menu bar:
1. Create page – for creating page from different templates 2. Search – for searching users, spaces, pages, attachments (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html) 3. Profile and personal space – for updating user profile and accessing to personal space (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/your-profile-and-settings-139467.html) a. Activity of the user from Profile page b. Access to personal space of the user 4. Space Admin – for controlling permissions to spaces ii Pages and Blogs (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/pages-and-blogs-320602215.html) a. “Tools” in View Mode (the “…” menu next to “Share”): 1. Adding attachments (“Attachments” function) 2. Page Restrictions (“Restrictions” function) (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html) 3. Viewing Page Information (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/view-page-information-139408.html) 4. Modifying pages hierarchy through the “View in Hierarchy” function 5. Moving and Reordering pages (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html) 6. Copying a page (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/copy-a-page-139013.html) 7. Deleting and Restoring pages (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-or-restore-a-page-139429.html) a. To restore a page, you have to be a space administrator. In the Space Admin page, find the function “Trash”, which contains all those deleted pages. You can choose to restore them or purge them. 8. Get link to the page (“Link to this Page”) 9. Page History and Page Comparison Views (“Page History) (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-history-and-page-comparison-views-139379.html) b. Sharing a page through email with the “Share” function (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Emailing+a+Page) iii Editing content a. Using the Editor (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/the-editor-251006017.html) b. Links 1. Working with links (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/links-776656293.html) a. Use “[“ to get the link to a page in Confluence 2. Four fast ways to link to content in Confluence (http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/four-fast-ways-to-link-to-content-in-confluence/?utm_source=confluence-tips-6-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=confluence-tips) c. Using Mentions (“@”) for sending email message and workbox notification to a person on pages, blog posts and comments (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/autocomplete-for-links-files-macros-and-mentions-249858190.html, https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-watchers-218271870.html, https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/workbox-notifications-284365963.html) d. Creating Beautiful and Dynamic pages (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-beautiful-and-dynamic-pages-302810636.html) e. Working with Anchors (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html) f. Working with Tables (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/tables-136463.html) iv Drafts and concurrent access a. Working with Drafts (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/drafts-149040.html) b. Concurrent Editing and Merging Changes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/concurrent-editing-and-merging-changes-144719.html) v Label (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-remove-and-search-for-labels-136419.html) a. Search with “labelText:<label>” b. For labels within a space, use “Browse > Labels”; select “global popular labels” to search for labels in all spaces c. Label macros (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/display-pages-with-label-macros-145102.html) vi Watch a. Watching Pages, Spaces and Blogs (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs-139579.html) b. Managing Watchers (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-watchers-218271870.html) vii Likes and Popular Content (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/likes-and-popular-content-278695530.html) viii Confluence Chat for real-time collaboration a. About Confluence Chat (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.chat) b. Chat History from top menu bar ix Meta data a. The Confluence Metadata Plugin is for supporting functions on metadata in Confluence (on page and space). Documentation of this plugin is available from https://comalatech.jira.com/wiki/display/META/Confluence%20Metadata%20Plugin b. A number of examples showing how to use the plugin are available from http://learning.sd.polyu.edu.hk/x/X4jb x Other features for team works: a. Share Link Blueprint (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Shared+Links+Blueprint) b. Decision Blueprint (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2PK6vfF9hk) c. Five Confluence features beginners will love (http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/06/five-tips-confluence-beginner/?utm_source=confluence-tips-6-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=confluence-tips) d. 3 Ways to Make Your Meetings Count with Confluence (http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/11/3-ways-to-make-your-meetings-count-with-confluence/?utm_source=confluence-tips-1-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=confluence-tips-1) e. Confluence 101: 3 Ways to Keep Your Team Connected with @mentions (http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/08/confluence-101-3-tips-for-using-mentions/?utm_source=confluence-tips-1-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=confluence-tips-1) f. 12 Things You Didn’t Know About the Confluence Editor (http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/12/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-confluence-editor/?utm_source=confluence-tips-1-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=confluence-tips-1)