Confluence Tips & Tricks
- Aleeshya Broome
This page shows tips for navigating the ClosetCadPro Manual and it’s host site, Confluence.
Confluence is made up of Spaces and Pages
Spaces are a collection of related Pages, think of a filing cabinet.
Navigate using the “Table of Contents” on side bar.
Use the > to see more content linked in that page tree.
Click on any image or animation (GIFs) to make them larger and easier to see, like a zoom feature. GIFs continuously play in a loop.
Hyperlinks will be blue and underlined, and will directly link users to related pages, like in the example below. To open links in a new tab, hold ctrl + click.
Terms & Definitions will be blue and bolded, and will directly link users to the glossary at the bottom of the page. This will provide you with a definition for the term.
Advanced search tool to help find certain topics.
Users can combine exact matches (use quotations on either side of words), operators (or, and, not or a group), and wildcards (using ? or * to replace characters in search) in one search query. For example, you can search “manag* AND post?” and ("article" OR "post").
Other example of wildcard search:
For example, a search of b?g will show pages that have any of the following words: big, bug, bag, beg, or bog.
A search of manag* will show pages that have words such as: manage, manager, management, managing, managerial, etc.
Users can Star or Watch pages. This feature requires a log-in to access.
The star icon refers to Save for later. Starring a page for later helps users access them quickly from a desktop or mobile device.
Users can access starred pages by selecting Home in the main toolbar. There will be the option to view starred pages.
Users can watch a Confluence page, blog post or space. Confluence will then send you a notification email whenever anyone updates the watched content.
Users will receive immediate email notifications for:
Page / blog post edits (unless the author clears the 'Notify watchers' check box).
Deletions.
Attachments, including new versions or deletions of an existing attachment.
Comments, including new comments or deletions of existing comments.
More information HERE.
Users can share links to pages to other users via e-mail, slack, etc. This feature requires a log-in to access.
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