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The 'What's New' dialog automatically displays when a user first logs in after a major Confluence upgrade (e.g. upgrading to Confluence 3.5). The dialog displays a summary of the new features for the release, sourced from our website (by default).
Confluence administrators can configure the behaviour of the 'What's New' dialog, as follows:
- Change the URL that the 'What's New' dialog retrieves information from.
- Disable the dialog.
On this page:
Screenshot above: An example of the 'What's New' dialog
Changing the 'What's New' Dialog URL
The 'What's New' dialog URL is stored in your Confluence help-paths.properties
file. This URL is a concatenation of the help.prefix
property with the help.whats.new.iframe.link
.
Before you begin:
- The
help.prefix
property also defines the base URL for Confluence help links, i.e. help links in the Confluence application.
To change the 'What's New' Dialog URL:
Follow the instructions in the 'Changing the Links for Individual Help Pages' section on Local Confluence Documentation. You will need to update the 'help.prefix
' and 'help.whats.new.iframe.link
' properties, as desired.
For example, you may have installed your Confluence documentation behind a firewall at http://www.example.com/
and created a page http://www.example.com/whatsnew
that you use for change management. In this case, you would do the following:
- Set
help.prefix
tohttp://www.example.com/
- Set
help.whats.new.iframe.link
towhatsnew
There is an additional property 'help.whats.new.full.link
'. This is only used if the content pointed to by the updated URL isn't loaded in 10 seconds, in which case a 'timeout' screen is displayed with a link to the full 'What's New' content. For locally-hosted pages you can just set this property to the same value as help.whats.new.iframe.link
.
Disabling the 'What's New' Dialog
The 'What's New' dialogue is enabled via a plugin. To disable the 'What's New' dialogue, you need to disable the 'Confluence What's New' plugin in Confluence.
To disable the 'Confluence What's New' plugin:
Follow the instructions on Disabling or Enabling a Plugin. Please note, the 'Confluence What's New' plugin is a 'System Plugin'. Click 'Show System Plugins' on the Plugins administration page to display the system plugins.
Notes
Related Topics
Disabling or Enabling a Plugin
Local Confluence Documentation