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Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

By : Stefan Kohler
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Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

By: Stefan Kohler

Overview of this book

Every idea, concept, and project needs documentation, which is traditionally kept in a variety of documents on different devices. Confluence 5 centralizes that documentation and provides it in one single location, available from almost any device and location. Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials is a practical, hands-on guide explaining not only how to install and administrate Confluence, but also everything you need to create, share, and collaborate on your documentation. This book will give you everything you need to get started with Confluence. Before you can start creating content, Confluence needs to be available. That is exactly where we start with this book; installing Confluence. Through a number of clear, practical exercises you will go from installation and administration, to creating content and involving your teammates. This book will teach you how to quickly create compelling content. You will learn how to involve your teammates in the process, using the Confluence workbox and share features. You will learn how Confluence can be customized with regards to look and feel, extra functionality, and integration with other tools, so that there is nothing in your way when you want to introduce Confluence 5 within your organisation. If you need to develop better collaboration on mission critical projects, then this book is for you!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with content history


Confluence tracks all changes made to a page, by creating a new version each time the page is modified. You can view the changes between different versions of the page, and also rollback to a certain version of the page.

Viewing the page history

All previous versions of a page can be viewed.

To view the history of a page, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the page you want to view the history of.

  2. Go to Tools | Page History.

  3. In the Page History screen, as displayed in the following screenshot, click on a version number to view that specific version of the page.

To get an understanding of the changes, it is possible to compare two versions with each other. Confluence will display the newest version of the page and highlight the changes being made; an example of this is shown in the next screenshot.

To compare changes between versions, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the page you want to view the history of.

  2. Go to Tools | Page History.

  3. Use the checkbox in front of the...