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.
This page will serve as your starting point for:
Learning the basics of page creation, formatting, and structuring
Applying permissions and restrictions appropriately
Leveraging collaboration features such as comments, mentions, and inline discussions
Whether you’re a new contributor, a space administrator, or part of the technical team, this training reference will help you work productively and maintain the quality and consistency of our knowledge base.
Looking for more training material, visit Atlassian Confluence Data Center documentation.
Training material can be found under:
Use the site navigation menu to find people, pages, and apps no matter where you are in your Confluence site: 
In addition, you can:
) to switch to another Atlassian app
) to see notifications for your Atlassian apps
) to get help, see what’s new, view keyboard shortcuts, and moreStarred spaces appear at the top of your Home dashboard for easy access. To star a space, go to the Spaces >Space Directory and tap Star this space in the top right. |
Use the space sidebar to navigate within a space. The space sidebar appears to the left of the page you’re viewing. It has three parts, each specific to the space you’re in.
The name of the space appears at the top of the space sidebar, followed by links to the space overview, blog, and space settings, plus dashboards for any apps you have installed.
Below these items, you’ll find your space shortcuts. These are links to important pages or websites that people who use the space need to be able to find easily. You can add shortcuts to pages in the space, in other spaces, or even on external websites.
Finally, there’s the content in the space.
Pages are organized and displayed hierarchically in the page tree. To see the children of any page in the space, tap > next to the page name. Confluence automatically displays the children of the page you’re viewing.
Tap [ to show or hide the sidebar while you’re viewing a page. |
Home makes it easy to explore your recent spaces and pages and stay updated on what’s happening in your organization.
To the right of your dashboard, you’ll find site-wide announcements, calendars, and your site’s activity feed.
The activity feed is a treasure trove of recent and popular content across your site. These are pages and blog posts that other people in your company have liked or commented on. These updates can help you keep tabs on what’s going on across your company and gauge how your company culture is doing.
The more likes and comments a page gets in a short period of time, the higher it will rank in the popular activity feed. |
Wherever your travels take you in Confluence , you should be able to find what you need.
Use the search bar in the upper right 
to look for pages, blog posts, spaces, and even people. Results will begin to show up as soon as you start typing.
If you get to many results you can filter them by space, contributors, content type, and more.
To find a page that contains an exact phrase, use double quotes around your search phase.
For example, searching for "product manager" in double quotes will show search results with that exact match. Results will not contain pages that have only 'product' or only 'manager.'
If you don't know the exact phrase you're looking for, enter keywords and operators in the search field. The available operators are OR, AND, NOT, and Group.
A wildcard is a character like ? or * that can be used to replace characters in your search. To replace a single character, use ?. To replace multiple characters, use *.
Here's something valuable to know: You can combine exact matches, operators, and wildcards in one search query. For example, you can search manag* AND past? AND ("article" OR "post") So searching on *amaha wont find Yamaha…. But searching on yamah* will find Yamaha. |
More detailed information regarding the search option can be found on the following Atlassian page: Search
Within Confluence, you can access the complete list of keyboard shortcuts. There are three ways to access this list:
Use the keyboard command: When viewing a page, press shift and ? together?
Use the main navigation bar: At the top right of your screen, select the ? icon, then Keyboard shortcuts
Scroll to the bottom of any page: In edit mode, scroll to the bottom and select the ? icon
The Confluence editor is what you'll use to create and edit Confluence pages, blog posts, and comments. You can enter content as you would in a Word document, apply formatting, and embed other content and files on the page.
Note: To edit a page, you need the 'Add Pages' permission for the space.
Blog post with instructions from Atlassian: The Editor
Macros are how you supercharge your Confluence pages.
You can use macros to:
Take your Confluence space to the next level using macros.
Below you find some useful macro's for Page editing.
To add a macro to your page:
From the editor toolbar, select Insert 
, then Other Macros.
In the editor you'll see a placeholder that represents the macro. Once you publish your page, you'll see the macro in its full glory.
Macro parameters are used to change the behavior of a macro.
To change the macro parameters:
Head to the documentation for specific macros of Atlassian to view full details of the parameters available in each macro.
Some Macros have been highlighted below:
The Table of Contents macro scans the headings on the current Confluence page to create a table of contents based on those headings or selected zone.
This helps readers find their way around lengthy pages, by summarizing the content structure and providing links to headings.
> Other Macros.You can then publish your page to see the macro in action.
More detailed information regarding Table of contents can be found on the following links:
Add the Children Display macro to a page to display a list of pages from a specific part of the page hierarchy. You can choose to display pages that are a child of the current page, or a child of any other page in a space.
This macro is great for providing quick access to:
Because it relies on the page hierarchy, the list of pages is automatically updated when pages are added, deleted, or moved. You can even show an excerpt from the page for extra context.
To add the Children Display macro to a page:
From the editor toolbar, choose Insert > Other Macros.
You can then publish your page to see the macro in action.
More detailed information regarding Table of Children's Display can be found on the following link: Children Display Macro
The Code Block macro is an essential tool for presenting technical content clearly and consistently.
It allows you to display code, configuration snippets, or command-line examples in a way that preserves formatting, improves readability, and prevents accidental formatting changes by Confluence’s rich-text editor.
It will also prevent you from not being able to save a page if a code block is not used for saving code on a page or a page breakage.
Add a Code Block macro to your page to display code examples with syntax highlighting.
This is great for sharing code snippets such as:
To add the Code Block macro to a page:
From the editor toolbar, choose Insert > Other Macros.
You can then publish your page to see the macro in action.
More information can be found on the following Atlassian page; Code Block Macro
Draw.io addon for Confluence is used to create powerful, easy to use and secure diagrams and whiteboards.
You can use draw.io to visualize everything:
Instructions: https://drawio-app.com/blog/getting-started-with-draw-io-for-confluence/
Draw.io addon additional information: Draw.io Tutorial