Change request in Confluence

[sharath pujar]

I currently own a Confluence page.

However, I want to allow others to make changes and merge them if an approver approves the changes. Kind of similar to Git or other source control systems.

Is such a feature available in Confluence?

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @sharath pujar and welcome to the Community.

Yes. It is possible, and it can work even better :) but one has to abandon the concept of 'merge' and 'change request'. And use a couple of apps.

Text is not code. You can change every single word on a page and it can still say exactly the same as before.

Concept:

• Two spaces. Source and Target. You work in Source, then you sync the content that's ready (approved) from Source to Target.
• Source - here's where your workflow takes place. You can use Confluence page status or a a dedicated workflow app (search for offerings by Appfire Comala abd Appfox)
• In these apps, you can determine who can approve the content until it reaches the final stage.
• Once the page reaches the final stage in Source, you can sync it to Target (manually or automatically) using a dedicated sync app (Comala Publishing, Ricksoft's Space Sync).
• If you need to version your content, you will do so in Target - the only app that can to proper versioning on Confluence is, imho, Scroll Documents.

Advantages

• You take advantage of Confluence collaborative nature...
• ...Yet you can control each and every single page individually
• ...all while having zero (almost) dependencies. Every Source page is, at the same time, its own unique branch independent of other pages AND it's a part of the same space.
• you can keep any number of pages as drafts, under review, etc. for any length of time in Source - because your Target is always the latest and pristine.

What I described is my own setup :)