Is it possible to create a general glossary in Confluence that Atlassian Intelligence references for

Question

I’m using Atlassian Intelligence in Confluence, and I find the AI Definitions feature very helpful for understanding terms and abbreviations directly within pages or blogs. However, I’d like to set up a centralized glossary with predefined definitions for terms specific to my organization.

My goal is for Atlassian Intelligence to first look up definitions in this custom glossary and provide those definitions when users highlight terms. If a term is not in the glossary, the AI could then generate a definition on its own.

Is this functionality currently supported? If not, are there recommended workarounds or third-party apps that can help achieve this? I’d appreciate any guidance or suggestions!

Follow-Up Question:
Can I set up multiple levels of glossaries in Confluence? For example, a general glossary for my organization, and then sub-glossaries specific to individual spaces. I would like Atlassian Intelligence to first check the space glossary, and if the term isn’t found there, move up to the organization-wide glossary. If the term is not found in any glossary, then the AI could generate a definition on its own.

Igor Kosarev _App Developer_ · Answer

Hello, @Stefan Andritoiu

You also can try to use Simple Glossary for Confluence for you proposes:

1. You can create Glossary on Space Level

2. You can link space Glossaries to fetch terms from other spaces

3. You can create global terms available across all you Confluence instance

4. You can find terms in selected text or on all page

In case of any questions you can ask on Support portal.

Melek Jebnoun_Vectors_ · Answer

Hello Stefan

My name is Melek and I'm Vectors' CPO. We are the Marketplace Vendor behind Glossary for Confluence.

Concerning your question: For now this is not possible! Based on this conversation and the inputs of this Atlassian staff member related to defining terms in Confluence.

For now Atlassian is focusing on the "AI accuracy" especially that the definition are based on Confluence content (or other content connected). In some cases you can have different definitions or details about a same term in different pages so highlighted content can be incoherent!

Also for now administer or list defined content is not possible. So you're not able now to create a glossary hierarchy, you will be just alimenting the Atlassian AI.

The super advantage Atlassian AI; is the fact that Atlassian provided a very smooth and "natural" highlight experience on terms in pages.

So if you want to maintain your own terms base and especially "control" the definitions and metadata to be displayed (synonyms, abbreviations, attachment etc.) I would highliy recommend giving our App Glossary for Confluence a try!

You can list your terms definitions and get them highlighted after in your confluence page as displayed in screenshot below:

Our App is based on spaces so you can create a main glossary in a specific space and also glossaries per spaces and set you highlight options to control from where to get you definitions to be displayed in pages.

You can contact us on our Support Portal for a full demo and we will be pleased to discuss further your wished architecture and help you setting all this up :)

Thanks