The Social Bookmarking plugin allows you to share bookmarks with your team. You can create a bookmark and save it in a Confluence space. To send the bookmark to other Confluence users, simply label it for their personal spaces or for public spaces. You can also subscribe to a bookmarks RSS feed.

A bookmark is a page which points to a website or other URL. The website or URL can be within or external to Confluence. The bookmark can also contain comments from the person who created the bookmark, telling you why the website is interesting.

Permission to create bookmarks

You can save a bookmark in any space where you can create a page.
You can label a bookmark for any space, using the space key as described below.

You can add a bookmark via:

  1. A bookmark icon on your browser toolbar. (tick) This is the quickest way.
  2. A space's 'Add Bookmark' action.
  3. The 'Add Bookmark' link on the 'Space Bookmarks' screen.

Where will the bookmark be stored? You can:

  • Choose the space where the bookmark will be saved, and also
  • optionally, send the bookmark to a colleague by labelling it for their personal space or label the bookmark for a global space.

To add a bookmark via the bookmark icon,

  1. If you haven't already done so, add the bookmark icon to your browser toolbar.
  2. Go to the website you're interested in.
  3. Click the bookmark icon on your browser toolbar.
      (Internet Explorer)

      (Firefox)
  4. If you're not already logged in to Confluence, the Confluence login screen will appear. Log in as usual.
  5. The 'Add Bookmark' screen will appear. Complete the information and save the bookmark, as described below.

To add a bookmark via a space's 'Add Bookmark' link,

  1. Go to any Confluence page.
  2. Click the 'Add Bookmark' link at the top right of the screen:

  3. The 'Add Bookmark' screen will appear. Complete the information and save the bookmark, as described below.

To add a bookmark via the 'Add Bookmark' link on the 'Space Bookmarks' screen,

  1. Go to 'Browse Space' and click the 'Bookmarks' tab.
  2. The 'Space Bookmarks' screen will appear. Click 'Add Bookmark' on the right of the screen.

  3. The 'Add Bookmark' screen will appear. Complete the information and save the bookmark, as described below.


To save, label and send the bookmark,

  1. Add the bookmark using one of the methods described above.
  2. The 'Add Bookmark' screen will appear, as shown below. Complete the following information:
    • Title – Enter a name for the bookmark. If you used the bookmark icon, the title will be set automatically.
      This title will appear on the 'Space Bookmarks' screen when you are viewing the bookmarks, to identify the bookmark.
      The bookmark is actually a page within the space. The bookmark title must be a unique page title within the space.
    • URL – Enter the URL of the website or other location which you find interesting or want to share with a colleague.
      If you used the bookmark icon on your browser toolbar, the URL will automatically be set to the website you were visiting.
    • Space – Choose the Confluence space where you want to save the bookmark. It will default to your personal space.
      The bookmark will appear on the 'Bookmarks in <spacename>' tab of this space. See Viewing Bookmarks.
    • Description – Enter any comments or message about this bookmark e.g. why you are sending the bookmark, or what is interesting about the website.
    • Labels – You can use the labels in two ways:
      • To send the bookmark to a particular Confluence space. Use 'for_spacekey' to send the bookmark to a global space, e.g. for_sales. Use 'for_~username' to send the bookmark to a Confluence user's personal space. e.g. for_~joebloggs.
      • To categorise the bookmark in the way we usually use labels.
  3. Click the 'Save' button.
  4. The bookmark will be saved in Confluence. You can view the bookmark on the 'Space Bookmarks' screen for the space you chose from the dropdown list. If you added a 'for_spacekey' label, the bookmark will also appear on the 'Space Bookmarks' screen for that space.
  5. If you used the bookmark icon on your browser toolbar, you will be returned to the website you have just bookmarked.


Screenshot : Adding a bookmark
 

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