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All Confluence UI text is contained in a single Java properties file. This file can be modified to change the default text, and also to translate Confluence into other languages than English.
The UI text file is ConfluenceActionSupport.properties
. From your Confluence install directory:
\confluence\WEB-INF\lib\confluence-2.x.jar Within this File, the relevant file to edit is :\com\atlassian\confluence\core\ConfluenceActionSupport.properties.
Refer to Editing jar files for reference.
The file contains parameters with name=value
pairs, in the format:
parameter.name=Parameter value
Parameter names are any text before the '=' character and should never be modified. Any text after the '=' character is the parameter value, which can be modified freely and can also contain variables. An example involving variables is:
popular.labels=The three most popular labels are {0}, {1} and {2}.
For more information on replacing values, check out Translating ConfluenceActionSupport Content. Note that plugins store their text internally, so you must modify plugin text individually.
Steps For Modification
- Stop Confluence
- Under your install directory, open
\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\com\atlassian\confluence\core\ConfluenceActionSupport.properties
- Search for the text you wish to modify, replace it and save
- Start Confluence
Common Modifications
- Rename 'Dashboard' by searching for
Dashboard
. To change "Dashboard" to "My Portal", changedashboard.name=Dashboard
todashboard.name=My Portal
Common Modifications
Task |
Search For |
Notes |
---|---|---|
Rename 'Dashboard' |
Dashboard |
The |
Modify login page text |
login. |
The |
Modify Keyboard Shortcuts
Confluence provides a set of keyboard shortcuts. You could customise the shortcuts by making modifications inside the ConfluenceActionSupport.properties
file.
- To disable a particular shortcut, you can simply just comment out a respective line of code. One may like to disable the shortcut to one of the navigation links: View, Edit, Attachments, Info . For instance, to disable shortcut to Attachments one would comment out the following line:
#navlink.attachments.accesskey=a
- To modify an access key, one could simply just change the letter, bearing in mind the fact that the letter must be unique.