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_gtcuat

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