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One wee observation regarding the full documentation exports available. Is there any chance that they could be exported from the version that they relate to e.g. 2.5 user docs are exported from a 2.5 version of Confluence. I'm trying to import these docs into my own local version of 2.5.4 and getting a message that they have to have been exported from the same major version. Not very handy! I assume they've been exported from v2.6 as that's the latest, but why would I want to put 2.5 user docs into a 2.6 version?

Thanks. 

The PDF file for the Confluence 2.3 User Guide gives an error 109 when opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows. Thank you to the people who have pointed this out

(File on this page: CONF20-20070221-18_24_45.pdf, labelled 'Confluence 2.3 User Guide (PDF - Mac & Linux compatible) generated 22-Feb-07'.)

Unfortunately, we can't reproduce the PDF file for the Confluence 2.3 documentation. The issue with the file is a known issue with PDF at the time when that particular document was created.

As a workaround, you can read the file using Foxit Reader.

Many of the links in the Confluence 2.7 Admin Guide (PDF) CONF27X-20080101.pdf appear to be relative to the confluence.atlassian.com wiki, which Adobe Reader doesn't get right even when run within Firefox, let alone in standalone mode from the local drive.

These are the ones under RELATED TOPICS, for example on page 81.

Our division has started using Confluence as a central collaboration tool, but there are several problems with the Confluence product that are blocking user uptake (in addition to the standard problems with changes to the information management practices). The main problem is the lack of user-centred documentation. I have requested help on this issue via email before, but had no success.

In my research on other collaboration products, I was impressed by the simple and clear user manual offered with the MindTouch product: http://www.mindtouch.com/resources/user_manual . Does a similar thing exist for Confluence?

The important themes here are small, simple, and explaining everday user needs ie: How do I attach a file?, Can I protect my page from other people viewing it?, How do I make a new page?, Can I put a picture in my page?, etc.

Note that there should be nothing about install procedures, related products, tricky options, non-installed plugins, the API, backups, user administration, expert macro functions, archiving, or other things average users do not do. This is a small task (compared with your complex and extensive technical documents), yet has the most impact on user acceptance and support cost reduction.

If this simple user manual was available for Confluence, this would radically help user acceptance of Confluence in our organisation. Do you know of such a guide or tutorials?

Thanks for any guidance you can give on this.

Sorry for not being regestered yet, but still let me ask. Is it possible to get the Complete Guide for old 2.2 version, because it is very uncomfortable to use online guide? Thank you in advance.

Do you have documentation that compare / contrast versions and explicitely show new features from one version to another? I would be interested in particular by a comparison between version 3.4 and version 3.5.7. My team will be trained on 3.4 (because there is no other possibility), but we will implement 3.5.7 soon. Thus we would need to know what changes have occured in between both versions (main changes only, not technical ones).

Many thanks for any advice you might have.

When are you going to provide the 4.0 Confluence Release Documentation for download?

Thanks!

The XML .ZIP file for Confluence 3.5 appears to be corrupt. Could you please re-post it?  Thank you.