Confluence Basics 4/27/2022
- Anuradha Vedantham (Unlicensed)
- Esmé Cowles
- Stephanie Oster
Owned by Anuradha Vedantham (Unlicensed)
Materials from the zoom training session with Esmé Cowles and Anu Vedantham
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- Why Confluence mattersÂ
- Overview of the quadrant approach
- How accounts work at PUL - login versus public pages
- Similar to Google Docs, more structured so easier to find and connect documents over time
- What is Confluence and what is it for?
- https://lib-confluence.princeton.edu/Â
- Wiki for PUL staff to collaboratively edit documents
- Tour of Confluence
- Home Page https://lib-confluence.princeton.edu/
- Space Directory
- Sidebar navigation
- Search "Confluence Best Practices"
- https://pul-confluence.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BP/Confluence+Best+PracticesÂ
- Examples
- An example of using Confluence to manage group recordsÂ
- An example of the meeting notes template
- An example of how Confluence connects to Google Drive
- Editing
- Tip: Don't use Firefox (a lot works, but some things do not)
- Login (Silent Duo Push)
- Personal Space
- Walk through toolbar:
- Basic formatting / Page Layout
- Links
- Insert Content
- Save / Close / Revert
- Other stuff
- Permissions (lock at top of page)
- Labels (tag at bottom of page)
- Context menu (import / export / copy / move)
- Try it out - Scratch Page!Â
- Formal training on Confluence:
- Atlassian Tutorials site
- Search for Confluence in LinkedIn Learning
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