Administration Console
The Administration Console is the interface for the global administration of Confluence.
Only administrators can access the Administration Console.
Administrators
The Confluence permission scheme allows the following main levels of administrator permissions:
- System Administrator – full administrative access to Confluence.
- Confluence Administrator – access to most of the Confluence administrative functions, but excluding those which could compromise the security of the Confluence system.
Please refer to the overview of global permissions for details of the functions which each level of administrator can perform.
CamelCase
CamelCase is a form of markup commonly used in wikis where words compounded together LikeThis without spaces are used to create links.
In Confluence, Camelcasing can be turned on from the Administration Console.
A change comment is a short description entered during the edit of a page to record the changes being made in the edit.
Child Pages
Creating child pages is a means of hierarchically organising content in Confluence. A child page can only have one parent page.
A comment may be a remark, question, or any other additional information you wish to add to a page pertaining to the topic the page covers. You can comment on any page or news item in Confluence.
The Confluence permission scheme allows the following main levels of administrator permissions:
- System Administrator – full administrative access to Confluence.
- Confluence Administrator – access to most of the Confluence administrative functions, but excluding those which could compromise the security of the Confluence system.
Please refer to the overview of global permissions for details of the functions which each level of administrator can perform.
Decorator files are used to define layouts in Confluence. They are vmd files and require knowledge of the language, Velocity, to edit.
The dashboard is the front page of a Confluence site. It provides an overview of the site, access to all spaces, and displays a list of the most recently updated content within them.
Form Field Markup
Form field markup is a specialised markup used when creating page templates in Confluence 4.2 and earlier. It is no longer needed, because the template editor offers form fields as an option in the editor toolbar.
Global Administrators
A global administrator is the same as a system administrator.
Global Spaces
Known as Site Spaces, these spaces contain content on any theme or topic of your choice.
For more information about site spaces and personal spaces, see Working with Spaces.
Hover Profile
The hover profile is the pop-up you see when the mouse pointer pauses over a Confluence user's name. Use the hover profile to follow the user, visit their profile, and more.
JIRA
JIRA is Atlassian's award winning Issue tracking and project management application.
Visit Atlassian's website to learn more about JIRA.
Labels are user-defined tag words assigned to pages to categorise content in Confluence.
A macro is a command wrapped inside curly braces {...} used to perform programmatic functions and generate more complex content structures in Confluence.
A blog post may be a journal entry, status report or any other timely information pertaining to a space.
A notification is an email message sent to you updating you of changes to pages and spaces you choose to 'watch'.
An orphaned page is a page without any incoming links.
Pages are the primary means of storing information in Confluence and are the building blocks of spaces.
Parent Page
A parent page is a page that has one or more child pages. It may itself be a child of another page.
The People Directory contains a list of all users in your Confluence site. Each user's name links to their personal space.
A permalink is the url used to link to specific content items like comments.
Personal Spaces
Personal spaces belong to particular users, and rather than being listed on the Dashboard, are available from the People Directory.
For more information about global spaces and personal spaces, see Working with Spaces.
An RSS feed is a format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content. RSS is read by RSS newsreader programs.
You will need an RSS reader to subscribe to feeds within Confluence.
Confluence acts as an RSS reader for feeds from sites outside of Confluence.
An RSS reader is a specialised RSS program (also called aggregator) that displays the contents of RSS feeds for you. To subscribe to RSS feeds within Confluence, you will need an RSS reader.
Site Administrators
The Confluence permission scheme allows two levels of administrator permissions:
- System Administrator – full administrative access to Confluence.
- Confluence Administrator – access to most of the Confluence administrative functions, but excluding those which could compromise the security of the Confluence system.
Please refer to the overview of global permissions for details of the functions which each level of administrator can perform.
Site Spaces
Site spaces contain content on any theme or topic of your choice. Previously known as global spaces.
For more information about site spaces and personal spaces, see Working with Spaces.
System Administrators
The Confluence permission scheme allows two levels of administrator permissions:
- System Administrator – full administrative access to Confluence.
- Confluence Administrator – access to most of the Confluence administrative functions, but excluding those which could compromise the security of the Confluence system.
Please refer to the overview of global permissions for details of the functions which each level of administrator can perform.
A space administrator is a user with the 'Space Admin' permission for the space. A user with this permission can perform a host of functions relating to the management of a space and has complete access to the space regardless of any other control settings or permissions.
Permissions for a space are only assigned and modified by space administrators.
A space is an area within Confluence, containing your pages, blog posts and other content. You can think of each space as a sub-site, or mini-site, each with its own home page.
There are two types of spaces: site spaces and personal spaces - see Working with Spaces.
A template is a pre-defined page that can be used as a prototype when creating pages. Templates are useful for giving pages a common style or format.
Themes are pre-defined 'look and feel' styles which are configured from the administration menu and can be applied across Confluence or to a single space.
Thumbnails
As of Confluence 4.0, all images on the page that aren't links are displayed as thumbnails: when you click on an image the full-size image is displayed in a pop-up.
Tiny links
A tiny link is the shortened url of a page which is useful when sending links to the page, for example, via email.
Trackback is a mechanism by which two sites can stay informed each time one site refers to the other by means of trackback 'pings'.
In Confluence, Trackback is enabled from the Administration Console.
Trackback Autodiscovery
Trackback autodiscovery is a block of code that can be placed in a web-page to describe where trackback pings should be sent for that page. You can read the technical specification for autodiscovery here.
When Trackback is enabled, Confluence uses Trackback Autodiscovery to ping pages that are linked to, and to advertise its own pages as being able to receive pings.
An undefined link is a link to a page that has not yet been created. Clicking on the page link allows you create the page.
Every user account in Confluence is linked to a profile that contains user related information and options to configuring user preferences.
When you watch a page, you receive an email notification whenever that page has been modified. When you watch a space, you receive an email notification whenever content is added or modified in that space.
Wiki
Pioneered by Ward Cunningham, and named after the Hawaiian word for 'quick', a wiki is a website that makes it easy for anyone to contribute pages, and link them together.
This is the markup used to write and edit page templates in Confluence.
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