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Introduction

Welcome to the Confluence Basic Training page, designed to help you quickly get up to speed with Confluence Data Center Environment.
Confluence is a collaboration wiki tool used to help teams to collaborate and share knowledge efficiently.  Dynamic pages gives a team a place to create, capture, and collaborate on any project or idea.

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Whether you’re a new contributor, a space administrator, or part of a team, this training reference will help you work productively and maintain the quality and consistency of our knowledge base.

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Looking for more training material? Visit the Atlassian Confluence Data Center documentation.

Confluence access, permissions and restrictions

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Use the site navigation menu to find people, pages, and apps no matter where you are in your Confluence site:  
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  • Tap Home or the Confluence logo (  ) to return to your Confluence  dashboard. Tap Recent to see a list of pages and blog posts you’ve visited or worked on, plus drafts and starred content.
  • Tap Spaces to move between your starred or recently visited spaces, or to access the space directory.
  • Tap People to visit the people directory, where you can find information about the people you work with and create teams.
  • Tap Apps to see a list of the apps that are installed on your site or visit an app’s dashboard.
  • Tap Create to create a new page from anywhere on your site.

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Links to pages within your Confluence site are relative, which means that you can move pages and rename pages without breaking links. 

Below paragraph explains the most common ways to create links. 

To create an association between a Jira issue and a Confluence page , via the Jira use the Jira issue/filter option by using the , read Jira Issues Macro

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for instructions.

To insert a link on a page:

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  • Link to a page
  • Link a page in another space
  • Link to a blog post
  • Link to an attachment or image on this page
  • Link to an attachment on another page
  • Link to an external website
  • Link to an anchor on a page
  • Link to a heading on a page
  • Link to a comment on a page
  • Link to an undefined page (a page that does not exist yet)
  • Link to a personal space or user profile

Tables

With Confluence tables  you can use  the familiar table formatting options like resizing columns, coloring cells, rows and columns, aligning content, and table sorting by clicking the column headers to view the information the way you like it.

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Here's a summary of the table tools:

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Column width modes

  • Responsive – choose this mode if you want the table to expand as you add content. You can drag to resize the columns. It'll also resize itself to fit the page-viewer's window size (within reason).
  • Fixed width – choose this mode if you want to drag column borders to set width. Columns appear at your set size, regardless of content and window size.

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Rows

  • Insert rows before or after the current row
  • Delete the current row
  • Cut, copy and paste the current row
  • Mark a row as a header row (shaded with bold text)

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Columns

  • Insert columns before or after the current column
  • Delete the current column
  • Cut, copy and paste the current column
  • Mark a column as a header column (shaded with bold text)
  • Add a numbering column to automatically number each row

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Cells

  • Merge selected cells
  • Split selected cells
  • Change cell color

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Alignment

  • Align content to top
  • Align content to middle
  • Align content to bottom 

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Table

  • Delete entire table

 

Sort the table

You can sort the contents of your table by selecting the sort icon in the table header row.

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You can use the Cut row and Paste row icons to move rows around in the editor. 

For more information about Tables read Atlassian page: Tables

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Tasks

Keep track of the things that need to get done with tasks. With the ability to give each task an assignee and due date, and plenty of ways to see your tasks, you can make sure nothing slips through the cracks. 

Add a task

You can add tasks on any page in Confluence. For example, you might add tasks under action items on a meeting notes page, or in a requirements page – anywhere you need a lightweight task management solution.

To create a task:

  1. In the editor, choose the Task list Image Added button or use the keyboard shortcut [  ] 
  2. Start typing your task – @mention someone to assign the task to them, and type // and choose a due date

The first person you mention in a task is the assignee; you can even assign tasks to yourself.

Note
  • If you assign a task to someone who doesn't have permission to view the page or space, they won't see the task.  
  • Tasks with no text will not be shown in the Task report macro. 
  • The date picker can be triggered by typing // or by typing a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy. Typing other date formats in the editor won't trigger the date picker.
  • Personal Tasks (created in the Workbox in older versions of Confluence) don't appear in the Tasks view or Task Report. To migrate any incomplete personal tasks, go to Workbox > Personal Tasks and follow the prompts.
  • The wiki markup based Tasklist Macro has been removed from the macro browser. If you have a Tasklist macro on a page it will continue to work, but you will be unable to add new Tasklists using this macro.


View tasks

There are a number of ways to keep track of tasks assigned to you, or tasks you've created for others. 
Basics for tasks are explained below for more information read the following Atlassian page: Add, Assign and View Tasks.

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View tasks in your profile 

Go to Profile > Tasks.

Use the filters to show tasks that were assigned to you or created by you in the last 6 months, and toggle between complete or incomplete tasks.

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View in a task report

 Create a task report:

    1. Choose Create > Task Report
    2. Select the type of report:
      • Assigned to my team – for tasks assigned to particular people.
      • In my project – for tasks that appear in a specific space or parent page.
      • Custom – for a wide range of filtering options, including by date or page label.
    3. Follow the prompts to create the report.

This blueprint uses the Task Report Macro. You can also choose to use this macro on an existing page, for example, on a project or team space homepage.

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Labels

Labels are key words or tags that you Labels are key words or tags that you can add to pages, blog posts and attachments. You can define your own labels and use them to categorize, identify or bookmark content in Confluence.

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Because labels are user-defined, you can add any word that helps you identify the content in your site.

Below the basics for label usage is explained,  if you want to know more read the following Atlassian page: Add, Remove and Search for Labels and Display Pages with Label Macros.

Label a page or blog post

Any user with permission to edit a page can add labels to it. Any existing labels appear at the bottom-right of the page, below the page content.

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For more examples of searching by label, see Confluence Search Syntax.

 

Macro's 

Macros are how you supercharge your Confluence pages. 

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Take your Confluence space to the next level using macros. 

Below you find some useful macro's for Page editingBasics information and some highlighted Macros are explained below.
Head to the documentation for specific macros information of Atlassian to view full details of the parameters available in each macro.

Macro basics

Add a macro to your page

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  1. In the editor, click the macro placeholder and select Edit.
  2. Update the parameters as required then select Insert.

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Macro's highlighted

Jira Issues Macro

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 Main navigation bar
The main navigation bar is the menu at the top of your screen that stays with you wherever you go in Confluence.

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The options within your navigation bars may look different than the screenshot. Navigation options can be customized based on your space settings, permissions, and team preferences.

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You can 'watch' pages to get email notifications when changes or comments are added to the page.


Share pages with teammates

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