Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials
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Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

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About This Book

In Detail

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!

Approach

Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials is written in a friendly, tutorial style packed full of practical information to help get you started with Confluence and collaborating on projects more efficiently.

Who this book is for

If you just started with Confluence, as a user or administrator, this book will give you a running start and teach you everything you need to know. This book will also appeal to veteran users as it will give you new insights and tricks for how to use Confluence even more efficiently. All you need to get started with this book is some basic knowledge on how to use an Internet browser. As an administrator, you will need some basic knowledge about your organization's standard operating environment to install Confluence.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781849689526
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Databases
Index
Computer Science

Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

Table of Contents

Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Instant Updates on New Packt Books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with Confluence
Understanding the architecture
High-level architecture
Supported browsers
Data storage
Confluence Installation directory
Confluence Home directory
Installation options
Standalone and WAR distributions
Operating systems
Databases
Application servers
Installing Confluence
Installing Java
Installing PostgreSQL
Creating a user and a database
Installing Confluence
Unpacking Confluence
Configuring Confluence Home
Configuring the port
Configuring e-mail JNDI resource
Configuring HTTPS
Generating a certificate
Configuring Tomcat
Redirecting traffic to HTTPS
Configuring Confluence as a service
Starting Confluence
Installation wizard
Setting up the e-mail server
Summary
2. User Management
Understanding authentication
Password authentication
Seraph
Adding users
Manually adding users
Open registration
Inviting users
Managing groups
Creating groups
Adding users to groups
Editing group membership from the user details screen
Editing group membership via the group management screen
Administrating users
Searching for users
Using the simple user search
Using the membership search
Editing user details
Resetting the password
Public signup
External user directories
The effect of directory order
Limitations when using external directories
Build-in user management
Editing directories
Connecting to an LDAP directory
Connecting to LDAP
Server settings
LDAP schema settings
LDAP permissions
Advanced settings
User schema settings
Group schema settings
Membership schema settings
Connecting to a Crowd directory
Connecting to Crowd
Server settings
Crowd permissions
Advanced settings
Connecting to JIRA for user management
Connecting to JIRA
Server settings
JIRA server permissions
Advanced settings
Summary
3. Creating Content
The basic concepts
Spaces
Pages
Blog posts
Comments
Adding global spaces
Adding pages
Adding a new page to Confluence
Creating a page from another page
Setting the location of a page
The Confluence editor
The toolbar
Formatting and autocomplete
Autoformatting
Autocomplete
Autoconverting
Drag-and-drop
Adding content
Styling
Macros
The macro browser
Editing macros
Macro keyboard shortcut
Panels
Page layouts and sections
Using page layouts
Using Section and Column macros
Tables
Editing a table
Keyboard shortcuts
Sorting the table
Attachments
Attaching files to a page
Attachment version management
Downloading attachments
Embedding attachments
Multimedia
Office files and PDF
Drag-and-drop
Images
Displaying an attached image
Displaying an attached image on a different page
Displaying an image from a remote web page
Changing the image's appearance
Aligning your image
Displaying images in a gallery
Links
Linking to Confluence pages
Using Autocomplete
Using the Insert Link dialog
Using copy and paste
Linking to web pages
Linking to an anchor
Linking to a heading
Linking to an undefined page
Drafts
Changing the draft interval
Resuming editing a draft
Viewing unsaved changes
Working with content history
Viewing the page history
Importing content
Importing a Word document
Importing a Word document as a single page
Importing a Word document into multiple pages
Exporting content
Exporting a single page
Exporting a space
Summary
4. Managing Content
Organizing your spaces
Changing the order of pages
Setting the page order to alphabetical
Orphaned pages
Archiving a space
Using Conf...

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