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Using the Confluence Screens

This page gives a pictorial tour of the Confluence user interface.

On this page:

Confluence Menus

The image below gives an overview of the menus in Confluence.

Menu or option Explanation
Browse menu The 'Browse' menu gives access to wiki content such as pages, news items, etc, and allows you to browse the People Directory. If you are an administrator, the space and site administration options appear here too.
User menu After you have logged in, your name will appear at top right of the screen. The 'User' menu appears when your cursor hovers over your name. The menu allows you to log out, access your user profile or view your editing history, personal labels and page watches. You can also retrieve drafts of pages you are editing.
Search box Type into this box and press 'Enter' to search.
Edit button The 'Edit' button allows you to edit this page.
Add menu The 'Add' menu allows you to add things to a page or space.
Tools menu The 'Tools' menu contains miscellaneous actions relating to the page.

Confluence Screen Items

The image below gives an overview of the non-menu screen items in Confluence.

Menu or option Explanation
Byline This shows the page author's name and the person who most recently edited the page.
Byline Icons Two icons that indicate the presence of page restrictions and attachments to the page. A small padlock indicates page restrictions, while a paperclip indicates attachments. Both icons are clickable, leading to the 'Page Information' and 'Attachments' pages, respectively.
Labels This line shows labels (or tags) attached to the current page.
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Comments (3)

 

  1. Mar 26, 2008

    Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:

    We'd be delighted to have your feedback on the new Confluence screen designs. Pl...

    We'd be delighted to have your feedback on the new Confluence screen designs. Please add your comments in the page specially added for UI feedback:

  2. Mar 30, 2009

    Anonymous says:

    Hi. May I ask where the user menu item names can be changes inside confluence?I...

    Hi.

    May I ask where the user menu item names can be changes inside confluence?I've tried everywere and no success. 

    Thanks.

    Sam

    1. Apr 16, 2009

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian] says:

      Hi Sam, There is no direct way of changing it, you have to probably understand ...

      Hi Sam,

      There is no direct way of changing it, you have to probably understand the internationalisation in Confluence. However, if you are using the Default Theme:

      1. The call to display the menu is defined in <confluence-install>/confluence/decorators/includes/content-navigation.vm
      2. The velocimacros are defined in <confluence-install>/confluence/template/includes/menu-macros.vm. You should be able to see the definition of those velocimacros inside. For the "Add" button, the name is represented by $action.getText("system.content.add.menu")
      3. Open up ConfluenceActionSupport.properties in the <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-x.y.z.jar\com\atlassian\confluence\core
      4. Change the value for "system.content.add.menu" to something that you want
      5. Put the file back into the JAR. Restart Confluence.

      Please note that this will require the default language to be set to (bundled) English.

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

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