Content review similar to Git pull requests

Gareth Budge_4pd5m3

Hi all,

What's the Atlassian recommended approach to instrument a review process for Confluence page (not Blogs) creation, updates and deletion?

 

It seems like in these forums the generally recommended approach is to get something from the Marketplace but given Confluence does have versioning, status labelling, etc. I am expected something a bit more out of the box.

 

Perhaps the way I am thinking of this is incorrect, but I would envisage something similar to a Git pull request. If the docs for an application were potentially versioned in the same repo as the application, any PR to change the application with/without any changes to the docs/ would attest whether or not any documentation updates were required.

 

Any guidance / feedback is greatly appreciated.

 

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Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @Gareth Budge 

I think one of the main reasons to use Confluence is to avoid Git

Anyway, yes, the marketplace would be your source.

 

We're using Comala Document Approval (one of Appfire's workflow management apps) and Comala Publishing.

We have two Confluence spaces synced with Publishing. Source and Target.

In Source, we keep pages in Draft status with Doc Approval, once they're ready, move them to Complete. This triggers the Publishing app which transfers the page to the Target space. It's the same with new pages.

It's git-like with the difference that you can do that on the page level (page to page basis).

If you need to revert, revert the Source page to the previous version, and sync it manually to the Target space.

Works like a charm as the Publishing app swallows everything hook line and sinker (labels, third party macros, everything).

 

We then use the Target space to built our doc center from (with K15t's Scroll Viewport)

If you need semantic versioning, you'd do that in your Target space with Scroll Documents.

 

Having said all of the above, I've been rather vocal on calling for a proper actionable workflow in Confluence. Current solution is, essentially, a glorified label that doesn't really do anything.