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Confluence is there a template like Atlassian Help/Documentation

Kevin Black

Apologies if this is simples (I did look through the community and the Documentation), but I'm having difficulty as a newbie and it's confusing.

Background:

I am using the cloud trial. When I try to access templates I see there are none. I read the documentation and see that I should have access to (global) blueprints from which I can create templates. The hierarchy being Blueprints -> Templates -> Pages (I assume). The help says to look at the '...' from the page header and select blueprints, but there is no option there for blueprints as in:

Create content using a blueprint

Choose Create from template in the Confluence header
Select a blueprint from the create dialog
Hit Create

The editor will open, and, depending on the blueprint selected, a prompt to enter information or the page will appear. You can now follow the instructions built in to the blueprint to add content.

Obviously I'm missing something (I don't get this), but at least I see somethig when I create when I click the '+' I do see, I assume, Blueprints. And I guess I could modify those blueprints.

Question:

Is the Confluence Documentation by Atlassion (and in fact all Atlassian documentation) written using Confluence? If so, that is exactly the template I want/need with:

LHS - menu hierarchy
Middle - Content
RHS Box - On this Page

That would be perfect if there was a blueprint and / or template for that. So is there a template for that?

Again, apologies for the newbie question(s), but everyone has to start somewhere.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The docs are almost entirely Confluence, but they use the Scroll Viewport add-on to change the look a bit. It's worth a try if you need different views on to your docs.

That doesn't really answer your question about templates, but I am trying to say that you won't quite get an Atlassian style doc out of Confluence + Template. The Viewport is modifying some of it (and I have a sneaky feeling there's some other tweaks in code as well, but I'm not sure).

Your templates should be able to do roughly what you need, but I can't pretend to be a layout expert (I think in orange-on-black, 40x25, not stunningly clever layouts, and then temper it with many years working with the visually impaired)

Kevin Black

Nic,

Wow, with response times like that I'd hate to see the SLA you signed up to:)

The look is what we would like, it's logical, clean, consistent and simple. I'll have a look for the Scroll ViewPort Add on.

Again, many thanks for the (very) timely response.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Also, I forgot to pick up the last bit.

Templates can give your users a great guide to the layout you want them to use, freeing them up to actually get on and write content.

You certainly should be able to knock up a template with the layout you describe. It's pretty close to the layout I write most of my stuff in (when my colleagues haven't given me a better one, anyway)

But I just wanted to say this site is based on Lithium, not Confluence. (Confluence was used for the last incarnation, but it was struggling with the community for several reasons)

Kevin Black

Hi Nic,

I was a bit confused with the last bit of your answer, but I now see (Lithium for social interactions, ie. community).

In the first instance we just want to get the user manual, FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide into confluence. We are currently using a Word document converted to CHM. And whilst this is simples, it certainly isn't state of the art.

As noted, the Atlassian docs are simple, clean, logical so that's a template we'd like. I just thought if there was an off the shelf version might save time, but it looks straight forward.

Thanks for the clarification, we will look at interating with 'our' community later.