Can you use Confluence as a CMS and export HTML5, LTI, and custom version control?

Question

Can you use Confluence to:

1. Store all of your content for a product that is tagged according to a taxonomy?
2. Export your content to a server or Learning Management System (e.g. Canvas) and restrict access to it so that only users who pay for the content can access it?
3. Export to different formats (HTML5, LTI, etc.)
4. Correct a mistake in a particular page and export it to the public places it's in? (E.G. I have a mistake in an online class that has five sections and I want to correct a particular page within those five sections, which is what I mean by "custom version control")

Thank you very much,

Scot

Scot Yonan · Answer

Thank you very much, Sven! I'm late to the game and sometimes it almost feels as if Confluence can do everything.

unknown · Answer

Hi @Scot Yonan,

one way to implement what you're trying to do could be to use an app by my team at K15t called Scroll Viewport:

With it you can set up your content in Confluence and publish it as a website. Using SAML authentication, you can restrict access to a certain group of users. You will only need to make sure that paying users will get an account with the identity provider you're using.

Whenever you find a mistake that you want to change, you can just update your viewport site, and the changed content will be live. If you want to check out a live example of a Scroll Viewport site, you could have a look at its documentation.

If you want to specifically use another system (you mentioned e.g. Canvas) to make your content available to your audience, you might be interested in our other apps such as Scroll PDF Exporter and Scroll HTML Exporter which you can use to create highly customizable exports of your Confluence content.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Sven