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Spaces
Create Unlimited Spaces
Each space can be a separately managed wiki with its own administrator, permissions, and theme.
Space Permissions
Give each space its own set of permissions which are granted to users and groups by a space administrator.
Archive Spaces
Archive stale Spaces to keep out-of-date content from appearing in search results. Only access archived content when you want to.
Space Directory
Accessible from the global header, the Space Directory allows users to view spaces by category and add spaces to their favorites list.
Export Your Content
Confluence provides a number of ways to export your content to other formats. Your content is never locked inside Confluence.
Default Permissions
Administrators can encourage hassle-free Space creation with default Space permissions, so content is inherently secure.
Find Content, Fast
Use the Space Sidebar to create shortcuts to important pages and external links so they are just a click away. Navigate to child pages and recent blog posts with ease.
Categorize Spaces
Use space categories, a special type of label to group related spaces.
Browse by Label
Browse pages in a space by the labels used. Click on any label to view pages with that label and continue clicking labels to filter your results.
Publish Blogs
Each space in Confluence can have its own blog. Blog posts may be announcements, journal entries, status reports, or any other timely information you want to communicate.
Backup and Restore
Backup all the content, comments and attachments for a given space simply by exporting it to a XML file.
Pages
Create Rich Content
Crowd-source meeting notes, share files, define product requirements, record project plans, and write beautiful documentation. Confluence handles it all.
Page Templates
When adding a new page to a space, there's no need to create it from scratch. Instead, you can start with a page template.
Import Word Documents
Convert your Word documents into collaborative wiki pages where they are secure, searchable, viewable, and editable by users with the right permissions.
Restrict Pages
Page restrictions allow you to control who can view or edit individual pages. Child pages inherit 'view' restrictions from their parent.
Page Hierarchy
Pages in a space can be organised into a hierarchy of parent and child pages. These page families are a simple but effective way of categorising your content.
Page Versioning
Confluence tracks every edit and maintains a version history for each page. It is easy to view changes between different versions and to restore a previous version if required.
Blueprints
Ready-made solutions to common business problems - create content that's consistently formatted, automatically organized, and easy to find.
Share Pages
Every page has a Share button, making it easy to bring the right people into the conversations and work taking place inside Confluence.
Rename Pages
You can change a page's name at any time and Confluence will automatically change all internal links to point to your new page title.
Start Discussions
Discuss content on pages and blog posts with threaded comments. Comments are a great way for your community of users to interact with each other.
Move and Copy Pages
Move and copy pages within the existing space or even to a different space. You can display your pages in alphabetical or manual order.
Add Labels
Labels are user-defined tags that can be applied to pages and blog posts. Labels allow users to sub-categorize pages and group content across multiple categories and spaces.
Like Pages
Similar to Facebook, 'Likes' encourage user engagement on pages, blogs, and comments, and drive discovery of 'Popular' content.
Change Comments
Summarize your edits with change comments – a useful way of keeping track of the history of a page. Change comments show up in the page history and in email and RSS notifications.
Export Pages
Want to share content with someone outside of Confluence? Confluence allows you to export a single page, a family of pages, or an entire space. You can even apply custom styles to PDF output.
Trackback Links
Enable Trackback to have Confluence send a Trackback ping to any external page you link to.
Recover Deleted Pages
Confluence automatically places deleted pages into the 'Trash.' Pages can be recovered until a space administrator empties the trash.
Rendered Page Diffs
Compare the changes between diffrent versions of a page or blog post with rendered page diffs.
Editor
Rich Text Editor
If you can edit Microsoft Word documents, you can edit Confluence pages. It's that easy. The Confluence editor has a streamlined interface to maximize your editing space so you can create rich content with extraordinary speed and simplicity.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts make editing wicked fast. Format text, add links and edit tables all without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Advanced Table Editing
Insert new tables with simplicity. Add new rows and columns, cut, copy, and paste rows, merge and highlight cells, and sort columns.
Page Drafts
Confluence automatically saves drafts as you type so you won't lose your content if your browser crashes while editing.
Autoformatting
Type wiki markup and watch Confluence convert it on the fly. Formatted text, tables, symbols, emoticons – it all works.
Insert Images
Display images on pages and blog posts. You can even display images as a thumbnail or display a gallery of images that your readers can view as a slideshow.
Resize & Link Images
Enter a custom width for embedded images and link them to other content like pages, blogs, and external sites.
Apply Image Effects
Creating content that looks good has never been this easy. Click an image and choose from a set of professional effects.
Page Templates
When adding a new page to a space, there's no need to create it from scratch. Instead, you can start with a page template.
Assign tasks
Create tasks and assign them to your co-workers inside your Confluence pages.
Drag and Drop Editing
Rearrange your pages and blogs by dragging and dropping images and macros from one line position to another.
Embed Office Documents
Embed PowerPoints, Word documents, Excel files and PDFs directly into your page where they're instantly viewable, even if you don't have Office installed.
Autoconvert for Links
Autoconvert takes the links you paste into the editor – Confluence pages, JIRA issues, YouTube videos, Skitch images, Flickr photo streams, and Vimeo videos – and transforms them into the dynamic content you need.
Add Multimedia Content
You can also easily embed multimedia files into a Confluence page for viewing and playback.
@mention Others
@mentions are a great way to notify other users about content and conversations they should be involved in. Best of all, they work just like Twitter and Facebook.
Embed Web Widgets
Insert widgets like YouTube videos, Flickr slideshows, Twitter streams, Google Docs and other content from the web inside pages and blog posts.
Link to Anything
Link to any content in the Confluence – spaces, pages, blogs, attachments, even people – with the Link Browser or magical Autocomplete.
Drag and Drop
Attach and embed images, Office documents, PDFs, audio, and video into pages by dragging and dropping them directly into the rich text editor.
Find and Replace
Find and Replace makes it easy to jump to a section of a document and update a term or phrase that's used multiple times in a page.
Page Layouts
Empower everyone to create content that pops with visual Page Layouts. Two-columns, three-columns, headers, and footers – the choice is yours.
Autocomplete for Links
For the fastest linking experience possible, just type [ and the first few letters of the page you want to link to. Autocomplete suggests the page name and instantly creates the link for you.
Autocomplete for Attachments
Insert images and documents into pages by typing ! and the first few letters of the attachment name. Autocomplete instantly finds and embeds the attachment for you.
Autocomplete for Macros
The power of add-ons are just a few keystrokes away. Just type { and the name of the macro and watch Autocomplete find the macro and launch the Macro Browser for you.
Copy & Paste Images
Paste images from your clipboard directly into the editor when using Firefox or Chrome.
Property Panels
Click on any link, image, macro while editing a Confluence page to access its Property Panel. Property Panels give make it quick and easy to make changes to your links, images, and macros inline.
Easy Formatting
Highlight your text, make it bold or underline all from the rich text editor toolbar. Or apply more advanced formatting like block quotes or code highlighting.
Insert Menu
The insert menu lets you quickly access to insert rich content, including macro, emoticons, links, images, and more.
Concurrent Editing
Sometimes, two or more people may edit a page at the same time. When this happens, Confluence ensures that nobody's changes are lost.
Responsive Editor
The responsive editor toolbar and footer maximise your editing space based on the size of your screen - useful for lower resolution devices such as projectors.
Macros
What is a Macro?
Macros allow you to add extra functionality or include dynamic content in a page. Confluence comes bundled with dozens of macros out of the box.
Add More Macros
You can add more macros to your Confluence site by installing plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange or by creating custom user macros.
Chart Macro
The Chart macro displays a chart using data from the supplied table or tables. Choose from pie, bar, line, area, scatter charts and more.
Gallery Macro
The gallery macro creates a thumbnail gallery from a page's attachments.
Tasklist Macro
The tasklist macro displays an editable and interactive task list.
RSS Feed Macro
The RSS feed macro embeds an external or internal RSS feed on a page and displays the contents of that feed.
JIRA Issues Macro
The JIRA issues macro displays a custom list of issues from a JIRA site on your Confluence page.
Office Excel Macro
The Office Excel macro embeds an Office Excel document (.xls) directly into your Confluence page.
Office PowerPoint Macro
The Office PowerPoint macro embeds an Office Powerpoint document (.ppt) into your Confluence page. You can view PowerPoints in full screen mode, display them in a slideshow, or edit them from the page.
Office Word Macro
The Office Word macro embeds an Office Word document (.doc) file into your Confluence page.
View PDF Macro
The View PDF macro embeds a PDF document (.pdf) into your Confluence page. You can view PDFs in full screen mode and even present them in a slideshow.
Widget Connector
The widget macro embeds YouTube videos, Flickr slideshows, Twitter streams, Google Docs and other content from the web.
HTML Macro
The HTML macro allows users to insert HTML code into a Confluence page. The HTML macro is disabled by default.
Attachments Macro
The attachments macro creates a list of attachments of the current page and previews them inline.
Blog Posts Macro
The blog posts macro lists the most recent blog posts within in a space.
Multimedia Macro
The multimedia macro allows you to embed audio and video files in Confluence pages and blog posts for playback.
Status Macro
The Status macro displays a colored lozenge in the editor. You can change the status while editing in a single-click.
Change History Macro
The change history macro shows the history of version comments for the current page or blog post.
Recently Updated Macro
The recently updated macro lists the most recently changed content within Confluence.
Info Macro
The info macro highlights content as an informational note with a blue background.
No Format Macro
The no format macro displays text in monospace font within a panel, with no other formatting applied.
Note Macro
The note macro highlights content as a note with a yellow background.
Panel Macro
The panel macro displays a block of text within a customizable panel.
Tip Macro
The tip macro highlights content as a helpful tip with a green background.
Warning Macro
The warning macro highlights content as a warning note with a red background.
Content by Label Macro
The content by label macro lists pages tagged with one or more specific labels.
Labels List Macro
The labels list macro lists all labels of a space, grouped alphabetically.
Popular Labels Macro
The popular labels macro generates a list or 'heatmap' of the most popular labels.
Related Labels Macro
The related labels macro lists labels used on other pages that have labels in common with the current page.
Recently Used Labels Macro
The recently used labels macro renders a list of the most recently used labels.
Navigation Map Macro
The navigation map macro creates a map of pages associated with a specified label.
Include Page Macro
The include page macro includes the contents of a page within another.
Excerpt Macro
The excerpt macro marks part of the page's content for use by other macros.
Excerpt Include Macro
The excerpt include macro displays the excerpted contents from another page in any Space in Confluence.
Code Block Macro
The code block macro displays source code (HTML, Javascript, Java, etc.) in your page with the appropriate syntax highlighting.
Page Properties Macro
Embed data on a page and then display that data in tabular form on another page - perfect for reporting information across many pages.
Expand Macro
The Expand macro allows you to add a dynamically expandable section of text to your page.
Contributors Macro
The contributors macro displays a list of contributors to a page, its hierarchy or selected spaces.
Content by User Macro
The content by user macro displays a list of content created by a particular user.
Network Macro
The network macro displays all the users in your network.
User Profile Macro
The user profile macro displays a user's profile details.
User Status List Macro
The user status list macro displays a list of statuses for a user.
Favorite Pages Macro
The favorite pages macro displays a list of your favorite pages.
Profile Picture Macro
The profile picture macro displays a users profile picture on a page. Useful for creating Team Pages.
Page Index Macro
The page index macro creates an index of all pages within the space.
Page Tree Macro
The page tree macro displays a dynamic, hierarchical list of pages starting from a specified parent (root) page.
Page Tree Search Macro
The page tree search macro provides a search box that searches a hierarchy of pages (Page Tree) from a specified root page.
Children Macro
The children macro shows the history of version comments for the current page or news item.
Livesearch Macro
The livesearch macro embeds a search box into your Confluence page to show search results as you type.
Search Results Macro
The search results macro searches your Confluence site based on specified terms and displays the results on the page.
Table of Contents Macro
The table of contents macro generates a hyperlinked table of contents based on the headings present in the current page.
Anchor Macro
The anchor macro creates an anchor inside the page, which can be hyperlinked.
Section Macro
The section macro defines a section on a page, which can contain one or more column macros.
Column Macro
The column macro lets you create a multi-column layout for your page.
Space Details Macro
The space details macro displays a table of information about the current space.
Spaces List Macro
The spaces list macro displays a list of the spaces within your Confluence site.
Page Properties Report Macro
Presents a tabulated summary of metadata that has been embedded, using the Page Properties macro, on any page in the current Confluence space.
Tasks
Create Task Lists
Add tasks to your pages and blogs to keep your team focused and driving forward towards a common goal.
Task Notifications
When assigned a task, Confluence automatically notifies users, linking them back to the page so they can stay on track.
Assign Tasks
Use @mentions to assign your teammates tasks and keep them accountable for what they need to get done.
Mobile Ready
Track everything you need to do in one place, from your iOS device. Create new tasks and manage existing ones on the go.
Tasks From Notifications
If you don't have time take action on an incoming in-app notification, add it to your Personal Task List to tackle it later.
Personal Task List
Track everything you need to do in one place. Create new tasks, track assigned tasks, and manage existing ones.
Attachments
Attach Your Files
In Confluence, attached files are not simply uploaded and forgotten. They're a powerful part of sharing information – versioned, linkable, searchable and viewable.
Attachment Versioning
All attachments are fully versioned, with comments by their author – showing you when files were attached, by whom and why.
Control Attachment Sizes
Administrators can specify a maximum file attachment size in order to conserve server disk space.
Edit Attached Office Files
If you have Office installed, you can also edit Office files directly from the attachments page.
The Attachments Macro
The attachments macro creates a list of attachments of the current page and previews them inline.
Drag and Drop
Attachments in Confluence work like a desktop app. Drag and drop files from your desktop directly onto your Confluence page to bulk-upload multiple files.
Search Attachments
Confluence indexes your attachments so you can search the full content of your:
- Microsoft Word documents
- PDF files
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
- HTML, XML, source and.txt files
- ZIP files
Link Attachments
Use Confluence's link browser or autocomplete feature to quickly find and link to attachments anywhere in the wiki.
Preview Attached Office Files
Preview the contents of attached Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files even if you don't have Office installed. Imagine delivering a presentation right from your wiki!
Label Attachments
Label attachments the same way that you would label a page or blog post and create filtered lists using the Content by Label Macro.
Embed Office Files
Embed entire Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files directly in your page where they can viewed by other users. Attached images and multimedia files can also be embedded into your pages.
Bulk Download
Download all the attachments on one page into a single .zip file.
Display Attachment Lists
Use the Attachments macro to display a list of attachments in any page.
WebDAV
The bundled WebDAV plugin lets you browse, manage and edit attached files via Windows Explorer or any other WebDAV client.
Notifications
Stay Up to Date
Confluence keeps you up to date with timely in-app notifications, email and RSS feeds. Stay updated however you like.
Share Pages and Blogs
The Share button lets you quickly share any page or blog post with other users. In just a couple of clicks you can bring the right people into the discussions and projects that are taking place in Confluence.
JIRA Notifications
Track your important notifications from linked JIRA instances in your WorkBox - shares, mentions, and comments.
RSS Subscriptions
RSS is a great way to subscribe to activity in your Confluence site. You can create a secure, customized RSS feed using the RSS Feed Builder or subscribe to one of the pre-specified feeds.
Watch Blog Posts in a Space
Choose to receive an email notification when someone adds a new blog post in a particular space.
Popular Content Summary
Discover the content that’s most popular – pages and blog posts that are viewed, commented on, and 'Liked' the most with the Weekly or Daily summary email.
Daily Email Reports
Cut down on the emails by getting all your Confluence updates in a single daily email.
Watch Spaces
Watch a space to be notified by email of any changes to the pages or blog posts in that space.
Watch Pages
Watch a page or blog post to be notified by email whenever someone modifies it. Receive notifications for:
- Page edits or deletions
- Attachments (including new versions or deletions)
- Comments (including new comments, edits or deletions)
Minor Edits
Just need to fix a typo? You can specify changes as 'minor' to prevent email notifications from going out to all page watchers.
Mobile Ready
Stay up to date and take action on important notifications - shares, mentions, tasks, replies-to and likes of your content - from anywhere.
Autowatch
Autowatch ensures you are always kept in the loop by automatically watching any pages or blog posts that you contribute to.
Manage Watchers
Space administrators can see who's watching a page or add watchers to any page or blog post. This helps keep others informed of important activity.
Watch All Blogs
Users can choose to watch all blogs within a Confluence site to stay abreast of all news across the site.
Network Notifications
Users can choose to watch their entire network to receive email notifications on any activity within their network.
Follow Notifications
You'll recieve an email notification whenver another user 'Follows' you in Confluence, helping you build your own Network.
Search
Search Anything
Confluence will search all content in all spaces (global and personal), mail, personal profiles, attachments and the space description.
Search Inside Attachments
Attachments are indexed for searching just like any other content in Confluence. Confluence indexes:
- Microsoft Word documents
- PDF files
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and
- Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
- Text, HTML and XML attachments.
- ZIP files
Quick Navigation
Quick Navigation offers suggested search results in a dropdown as you type. Open the desired page simply by selecting it in the dropdown.
Spelling Troubles?
The full search identifies potentially misspelled words and offers "Did you mean" suggestions with your search results.
Search Filters
Narrow your search results to find exactly what you want. Confluence can restrict your search results based on:
- Where - Particular space, favourite spaces, global spaces or personal spaces.
- What - Particular content type (pages, news items, mail, etc).
- When - Content last modified within a particular period of time.
- Who - Content last modified by a particular user.
Search Your Email
Email archiving lets your team archive all emails pertaining to a particular space. Once archived, your mail is:
- Searchable - including the full content of email attachments.
- Viewable by anyone with appropriate permissions.
- Threaded to keep track of whole conversations.
Preview Attachments
Preview images and Office files in search results directly from the search results page. You don't even need to have Microsoft Office installed.
Browse Recently Viewed
Instantly browse and filter for the page you were looking at yesterday using the Recently Viewed dialog.
Browse Related Labels
Next to the search filters, Confluence also offers a list of labels related to your search query. You can click a label to see all pages and blog posts tagged with that label.
Advanced Search
Confluence's search syntax provides more ways to refine your search. You can search exact phrases, specify excluded terms, and utlise logical operators like AND, OR and * wildcards.
Livesearch Macro
Add a search box to any Confluence page with the livesearch macro. When a user enters a search term into the search box, Confluence dynamically displays matching results as they type.
Browser Search
Add Confluence to your browser's built-in search box. Just add your Confluence site as a search provider via the dropdown menu in your browser's search box.
Mobile
Browse Activity
Access content that's important to you from the Dashboard - Popular content, Recent Blogs, and activity from your Network.
Manage Tasks
Track everything you need to do in one place with your personal task list. Create new tasks and manage existing ones.
View Pages & Blogs
View your content-rich pages and blogs anywhere. Quick to load and resized to fit your iOS device perfectly.
Make Contributions
Keep conversations flowing and make decisions faster by adding comments and likes to pages and blogs when you're on the go.
View User Profiles
It's like having a corporate directory in your pocket. Leverage the power of your favorite smartphone to call, text, or email in a single click.
Quick Search
Quick Navigation offers suggested search results in a dropdown as you type. Find pages, blogs, attachments, and people on the go
Track Notifications
Stay up to date and take action on important notifications from anywhere - shares, mentions, tasks, replies-to and likes of your content.
JIRA Integration
Application Links
Application Links allows you to connect JIRA and Confluence instances. With authentication via OAuth, a host of new JIRA integration features are available.
Automatic Issue Linking
Whenever a JIRA issue is mentioned in a Confluence page, JIRA will create an issue link to that page for you, automatically.
Centralize User Management
Configure Confluence to use JIRA's user database or Crowd as the user-repository for both applications.
Insert JIRA Issues
Report on the status of your JIRA issues by inserting them on pages. The Insert JIRA Issue dialog allows you to quickly insert recently viewed issues to embed in pages and blog posts.
JIRA Notifications
Track your important notifications from linked JIRA instances in your Confluence WorkBox - shares, mentions, and comments.
JIRA Issues Macro
The JIRA issues macro allows you to display an entire list of JIRA issues within a Confluence page. Issues can be filtered and sorted however you like.
Autoconvert JIRA Issues
Just paste a link to an individual JIRA issue or filter into the editor and watch them instantly convert into the JIRA Issue macro.
Gadget Subscriptions
Quickly add all the gadgets from your JIRA, Bamboo, FishEye or Crucible site – or from another Confluence site – to your Confluence gadget directory.
Embed JIRA Gadgets
Atlassian also uses the OpenSocial gadget specification to share content between Confluence and JIRA. Both Confluence and JIRA can act as gadget producers and consumers.
One Activity Stream
Consolidate the activity from both systems – JIRA and Confluence – into a single activity stream.
Create JIRA Issues
Quickly create new and embed existing JIRA issues into Confluence pages and blog posts without leaving the editor with the Insert JIRA Issue dialog.
Embed Pages in JIRA
Display content from any Confluence page inside your JIRA dashboard using the Confluence page gadget. You can even edit your page from the gadget.
Search Confluence in JIRA
Search your Confluence knowledge base directly from JIRA using the Confluence Quicknav search gadget.
Single Sign-on *
Crowd also provides single-sign-on (SSO) making your experience across JIRA, Confluence and other applications seamless.
Installation
Get Started for $10
Small teams get preferential treatment at Atlassian: Get Confluence for 10 users for $10 (includes full technical support).
Guided Installer
Installing a new instance if Confluence is a breeze. A guided wizard walks you though a new installation on Windows and Linux.
Free for Open Source
Open Source projects and non-profit organisations can obtain free community licenses.
Unlimited Developer Licenses
Commercial license holders can generate developer licenses for staging, testing, development or QA servers.
Install or Hosted Options
Host your own instance behind the firewall or we can host Confluence for you through our hosted partner NTT... it's up to you.
Guided Upgrades
Get up and running with the latest version of Confluence with our guided wizard for upgrading an existing instance on Windows and Linux.
Built-in Database
Confluence Standalone ships with HSQLDB pre-packaged for evaluation purposes.
Bundled Database Drivers
Confluence includes database drivers to connect with your preferred database:
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Import Other Wikis
To enable quick migration from other wikis, the Confluence Universal Wiki Converter can import your existing content (including formatting) from TWiki, Mediawiki, SharePoint, MindTouch and more.
Troubleshoot Issues
Atlassian Support Tools lets you scan log files and view suggested knowledge base articles for any potential issues in just a few clicks, and contact Atlassian support if you need help.
Connect to JIRA
Get off the ground running – Hook Confluence up with JIRA, for user management and authentication, right within the in-application setup wizard.
Administration
Almost everything you need to manage your Confluence site is available through Confluence's web interface: no messing with configuration files or scripts. Administration options include:
- Managing users, groups and permissions across the entire site
- Customising the look and feel of the site
- Managing the server's plugins and extensions
- Configuring mail-servers for sending email notifications.
Site Backup
Backups are also a useful way to move your data from one Confluence site to another – even if you are using a completely different database. By default, Confluence backs up all data and attachments once a day to a XML backup file.
Speaking Your Language
Most user-visible pages in Confluence are internationalized and you can choose from English, French or German out of the box. We also have language packs for over 14 languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Translating Confluence
If your language is not currently supported, you can add your own translations.
Customize
Customize Confluence
Confluence can quickly take on your organisation's look-and-feel and be extended to add the functionality you need.
Custom Layouts
The layout for any Confluence site or space can be modified by editing a few 'decorator' files.
Custom Color Schemes
Customize the color scheme of each space to give it some personality or simply match corporate branding standards.
Bundled Themes
Confluence ships with a number of bundled themes like the Documentation Theme and Easy Reader Theme. Administrators can install new themes as plugins.
Custom Stylesheets
CSS developers will be pleased to know that they can apply their own custom stylesheets to any space to give it a unique look and feel.
Universal Plugin Manager
Discovering, installing and managing plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange to customize Confluence to your requirements is simple and fast with a powerful plugin manager.
Welcome Message
Customize the site welcome message to display an introduction to your Confluence site or a message of the day.
Themes
Themes allow you to personalize the 'look and feel' of Confluence. You can apply a theme to your entire Confluence site and to individual spaces.
Apply a Custom Logo
Replace the default logo for a space or the entire site with a logo of your own choice.
Massive Plugin Ecosystem
Confluence has hundreds of plugins that enables you to expand Confluence to fit any special scenario.
Remote Interfaces
Confluence provides full web service interfaces for your applications or scripts to remotely update content, manage users or administer individual spaces. We have APIs in the form of:
- SOAP
- XML-RPC and
- REST
Full Source Code Access
All commercial and academic license holders also receive full access to the Confluence source code. This gives you the flexibility to build what you need when you need it.
Personal
Dashboard
The Confluence dashboard provides an overview of the site and displays the most recently updated content. Users can filter on favorite content. Administrators can even create a custom welcome message.
Custom Starting Page
Registered users can choose the page to which they are directed after they log in to Confluence whether it's the dashboard or a custom page.
Favorites
Favorites provides a convenient way of gaining quick access to specific pages or spaces that interest you. Quickly access your favorites from the dashboard or your profile.
Profile Pictures
You can upload your own profile picture or use one of the avatars we provide. If you upload your own picture, Confluence lets you crop it to zoom in on your face.
Status Updates
Status updates let you create "micro-blogs" of 140 characters or less that your whole company can view.
People Directory
The People Directory provides a list of all users in your Confluence site. Search for users from the people directory and click on their name or photo to see their details.
Networks
Follow what other users are doing throughout your Confluence site, by adding them to your network.
Recently Viewed Content
Confluence keeps track of pages you have recently viewed throughout your Confluence site so you can easily navigate to them later.
Hover Profile
Get more information on a user from anywhere in the system. Simply hover over a user's name to get their hover profile which displays summary information.
Personal Spaces
Create your own personal space for expressing yourself, blogging about your work or just storing personal content online.
User Profiles
Each Confluence user has a user profile area which displays information like the user's:
- current status
- recent activity
- profile picture
- network and
- various other fields
Security
Confluence Groups
Users can be grouped together into user groups for more convenient administration. A user in one of these groups will automatically be granted all permissions granted to the group.
Public Signup
Customers who wish to create a publicly-facing site can enable public signup so that users can sign themselves up to the site.
CAPTCHA
Configure Confluence to deter automated spam by asking users to prove that they are human before:
- Signing up for an account
- Adding a comment
- Creating a page
- Editing a page
Secure Sign-up
Get your organization started faster by enabling anyone with your corporate domain to sign up for Confluence without bugging you.
Restrict Pages
Page restrictions allow you to control who can view or edit individual pages. Child pages inherit 'view' restrictions from their parent.
Centralize User Management
Delegate user management and authentication to JIRA or Crowd and give your users a single username and password for both applications.
Single Sign-on
Crowd also provides single-sign-on (SSO) making your experience across JIRA, Confluence and other applications seamless.
Space Permissions
Give each space its own set of permissions. Permissions can be granted to both users and groups by a space administrator.
Invite Users
Invite new users to Confluence in a single click. Confluence will automatically send a customizable email notification inviting the user.
Unlimited Anonymous Users
Every confluence site allows for unlimited anonymous users making Confluence ideal for externally-facing sites. Administrators can assign permissions to this group separately.
Secure Administrator Sessions
Accessing administrative features requires an additional login. After validation, administrators are given a temporary session that expires after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Failed Login CAPTCHA
To protect against malicious attackers, Confluence requires users to answer a CAPTCHA question after a number of failed login attempts. This protects not only the login page but the RPC-interface as well.
LDAP & Active Directory Support
Confluence can delegate user authentication to LDAP and use LDAP group memberships to set the user's Confluence access permissions. This also allows Active Directory (AD) integration
* Not included with Confluence. Requires integration with separate product(s).