All Confluence UI text is contained in a single Java properties file. This file can be modified to change the default text or translate Confluence into other languages than English.
The UI text file is ConfluenceActionSupport.properties. From your Confluence install directory:
\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\com\atlassian\confluence\core\ConfluenceActionSupport.properties
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 direcory, open
\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\com\atlassian\confluence\core\ConfluenceActionSupport.properties - Search for the text you wish to modify, update the parameter value and save the file
- Start Confluence
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.