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Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By : Eren Kalelioğlu
Book Image

Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By: Eren Kalelioğlu

Overview of this book

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment. This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases. You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment. Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Preparing for Confluence
7
Part 2:Building a Real Confluence Site
13
Part 3:Scaling Business

Mastering Dynamic Contents

If you have decided to collect and organize all company information on Confluence, you will need to master some skills. The foremost of these is the ability to use dynamic pages effectively.

Pages whose content is automatically updated according to specific rules or contain rich content other than text and images are called dynamic pages. They interact with other pages on Confluence.

By making the pages dynamic, you can easily organize your knowledge base and find what you seek. Dynamic pages interact with other pages in the environment, and this way, you can reuse content from one page to another.

In this chapter, you will learn how to make static pages dynamic. You can be sure that what you learn here will greatly benefit you.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Labeling pages
  • Getting to know the macros
  • Exploring macros that use labels
  • Discovering macros that interact with pages
  • Adding more macros to Confluence...