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DGC IV: Confluence Upgrades

• By: Igor Minar, on 'Igor Minar's Blog'
• About: Upgrading Confluence, on relatively large public-facing Confluence sites
• Date: 25 July 2010
• Related documentation: Upgrading Confluence

Tracking Atlassian Confluence usage with Google Analytics

And Using the Google Analytics Javascript API to show pageviews from Atlassian Confluence

• By: David Simpson, on blog 'david simpson'
• About: Setting up Google Analytics for Confluence
• Date: 18 March 2009 and 11 September 2009
• Related documentation:
  • How Do I Get More Statistics From Confluence?
  • How to audit Confluence - enabling user access logging

Moving Confluence from Windows to (Ubuntu) Linux

• By: Ricky Sheaves, on blog 'flimflam' (calebscreek)
• About: Moving Confluence to its own dedicated environment: Ubuntu 8.04 with a MySQL backend
• Date: 19 October 2008
• Related documentation: Migrating Confluence Between Servers

Plugging Memory Leaks in Confluence

• By: Don Willis, on blog 'Atlassian developer blog'
• About: Identifying memory leaks in Confluence and fixing them
• Date: 1 October 1007
• Related documentation: Performance Tuning

Using a wiki for technical documentation

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About:
  • Overview — what a wiki is and does.
  • Workflow — draft, review, publish.
  • Tracking — page history, notification of updates, reverting to a previous version.
  • Permissions.
  • Adding structure to your documentation — table of contents, left-hand navigation bar, logical page ordering, content re-use.
  • Release management on a wiki.
  • Using spaces for version control.
  • How a wiki is useful in agile development.
• Date: 21 November 2009

Wiki docs --- release management

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• Date: 17 November 2007
• About:
  • Using spaces for version control
  • Release management on a wiki
  • Archiving documentation on a wiki
• Related documentation: The Copy Space plugin

Using a wiki for online help

• By: Sarah Maddox, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Pointing online help links to version-controlled wiki documentation spaces
• Date: 13 December 2007

Content re-use on a wiki

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About: Content reuse and defining an inclusions library
• Related documentation:
  • Excerpt Macro
  • Excerpt Include Macro
  • Include Page Macro
• Date: 29 July 2008

Starting out with your technical documentation on a wiki

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About: Choosing your wiki and planning your documentation
• Date: 4 November 2007

Universal Wiki Converter - Now with SSL Support

• By: Laura Kolker, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Configuring the UWC for two new features:
  • A Trac Converter module
  • SSL support
• Date: 6 March 2009
• Related documentation: Importing Content from another Wiki

Confluence wiki to Eclipse Help (and DocBook, PDF) the easy way – Scroll FTW

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About: Using the Scroll Wiki Exporter plugin to convert Confluence content to Eclipse Help, DocBook XML and PDF
• Date and Confluence version: 8 May 2010; Confluence 3.2.1
• Related documentation: The Scroll Wiki Exporter plugin

Playing with DITA2Confluence part 1 and part 2

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About: Using the DITA2Confluence tool to convert documentation from DITA XML to Confluence pages
• Date and Confluence version: October 2008; Confluence 2.9
• Related documentation: The DITA2wiki project on SourceForge

Converting from FrameMaker to Confluence

• By: David Stephensen, in the Confluence User Community wiki space
• About: Converting content from native FrameMaker format to Confluence wiki using Mif2Go, FrameScript and Far.
• Date and Confluence version: 3 June 2010; Confluence 3.1

The Confluence Reporting HOWTO

• By: Jim Severino and John Rotenstein, Atlassian Internal Systems, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About:
  • Using Confluence as a reporting and business intelligence tool
• Date and Confluence version: August 2009; Confluence 3.0
• Related documentation: The Confluence Reporting HOWTO

Drawing diagrams on a wiki page

• By: Sarah Maddox, on blog 'ffeathers'
• About:
  • Using the Gliffy plugin to draw diagrams on a Confluence page
  • Links to other tools for displaying flowcharts, graphs etc based on editable content in the wiki page
• Date and Confluence version: 4 July 2009; Confluence 3.0
• Related documentation: The Gliffy plugin

Organisation is Key

• By: Matt Hodges, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Designing the structure of a Confluence space using an inclusions library, macros and tabbed pages
• Date and Confluence version: 17 March 2009; Confluence 2.10

Creating FAQs

• By: Matt Hodges, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Designing the FAQ (frequently asked questions) section of your Confluence space
• Date and Confluence version: 2 April 2009; Confluence 2.10

Styling Tabs in Confluence 2.10

• By: Jens Schumacher, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Using CSS to change the look of the tabs in Confluence
• Date and Confluence version: 12 January 2009; Confluence 2.10
• Related documentation: Styling Confluence with CSS

How to determine the context your macro is being rendered in

• By: Cheryl Jerozal, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Discovering find out the current render context (including PDF document, feed reader, email notification, etc) from within your macro
• Date and Confluence version: 25 June 2009; Confluence 3.0
• Related documentation: Macro Module​

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Video: Confluence overview

• By: Matt Hodges, on the Atlassian website
• About:
  • Confluence Overview
  • Create and edit
  • Tracking updates and blogs
  • Security and permissions
  • Attachments and the Office Connector
  • Search and discover
  • Plugins
• Date and Confluence version: July 2009; Confluence 3.0
• Related documentation: Confluence documentation

Video: Macro browser

• By: David Cook, on the 'Atlassian Blog'
• About: Using the new Confluence macro browser in Confluence 3.0
• Date and Confluence version: 18 June 2009; Confluence 3.0
• Related documentation: Working with the Macro Browser

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