Yulia Lenina _AppFox_ Community Champion

The New Year is the perfect time to reset how we work in Confluence. In my last article, I wrote about the habits we need to stop doing - the ones that make Confluence messy, unreliable, or underused. This time, let’s flip the perspective. Here are five simple things you can start doing in Confluence to make it a trusted…

This is a much-awaited update many teams have been asking for. Approval reminders are now available in Workflows for Confluence, helping ensure important approvals don’t get stuck or forgotten. Approvers can now receive email reminders when an approval is pending. This is especially useful for business-critical pages where…

Using Approvals for Confluence? The latest updates to Section Approvals make it much easier to review and approve specific parts of a page. You can now add comments directly to section approvals, set minimum approvers and expiry dates, and keep a clear record of decisions. Section approval history is now fully tracked and…

As the year comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on how teams use Confluence - and how small habits can make a big difference. Over time, I’ve noticed certain patterns that quietly reduce its value: good intentions that turn into clutter, confusion, or lost collaboration. So before we step into a new year, here are five…

Section Approval Macro in our Approvals for Confluence marketplace app have always helped teams keep specific parts of a Confluence page accurate and well-reviewed. With this new release, we’ve made the feature more powerful, more flexible, and easier to manage. If your team owns different parts of a long document -…

‘You publish your document, AI classification applies the correct data classification level, and access is automatically granted or blocked for certain users or groups.’ Sounds like magic, right? But it’s not! If you’re already using our Compliance for Confluence marketplace app, you know how powerful data classification…

I bet we all have nightmares that could come true on Halloween. In this article, I wondered what nightmares might a Compliance Officer have? For most people, Halloween is about ghosts and vampires. But for a Compliance Officer, the real horror stories live inside Confluence — outdated policies, data leaks, and audits that…

I recently revisited Bruce Tuckman’s model of team development — a simple but powerful way to understand how groups grow and collaborate. The more I thought about it, the more I saw its patterns reflected in everyday teamwork inside Confluence. Each stage brings its own challenges, and the way teams use tools can make that…

You roll out Confluence, expecting it to become the go-to knowledge hub. But months later, pages are outdated, teams default back to email, and adoption is patchy at best. Why does this happen? In my earlier article ‘5 Steps to Get Value from Your Confluence as Quickly as Possible’, I briefly touched on the importance of…

🚀 We’re launching ACE Oxford! 🎉 I’m thrilled to announce the very first Atlassian Community Event (ACE) in Oxford UK! 📅 Date: September 30📍 Location: BIPC, Westgate Library, Oxford🎙️ Speaker: Hassan Khadra This won’t be just talk — it’s a hands-on workshop as part of our new Atlassian in Practice series. Together, we’ll…

Creating a well-structured workflow in Confluence can be a game-changer for teams in regulated industries, where documentation accuracy, approval, and security are essential. However, setting up workflows that are both effective and compliant can be challenging, especially when navigating requirements like audit trails,…

Do you feel like your team isn’t using Confluence to its full potential? You’re not alone - I’ve heard it many times in my conversations with our customers. Most organizations only tap into a small portion of what Confluence can do. As a result, they miss out on the real value it can bring - better collaboration, smoother…

In my work with customers and partners, I often hear: “Compliance for Confluence works great – but can we do more with it?” The answer is yes. While Compliance for Confluence already automates internal checks, the REST API opens the door to more advanced use cases – from integrating with external systems to orchestrating…

Not using the Workflows for Confluence app yet? You should. From quality assurance to cross-team collaboration, many teams face the same documentation challenges: managing approvals, maintaining version control, and meeting compliance requirements. Based on our experience at AppFox, working closely with customers and…

You’ve put in the effort to build a useful, attractive Company Hub in Confluence - but your colleagues aren’t engaging with it. You update the content, maybe even send reminders… and still, silence. I recently saw this exact question in the Atlassian Community. The author asked whether there’s a way to notify users when…

In my work at AppFox, I often speak with teams in healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. Many of them face the same challenge: how to manage documents in a way that meets strict rules and still keeps work moving smoothly. In these industries, document control isn’t just a good practice - it’s a legal requirement.…

🔹69% of knowledge workers struggle to keep Confluence spaces organized and easy to navigate 🔹 62% find it hard to locate important documents 🔹 54% want better review and approval processes These were the results of a live poll we ran during our recent webinar, “The HR Guide to Smarter Information Sharing in Confluence.”…

To keep the Partner Spotlight series alive and well, Atlassian has invited Partners to create their own articles following Atlassian’s suggested format. Here is the latest installment – an interview with Martin Wood from AppFox. What's your role at AppFox? I'm the Head of Product, looking after the product and engineering…

Your team needs the onboarding guide.The new policy update.That one doc… you know the one… somewhere in the HR space? 🔎 According to McKinsey, employees spend nearly 20% of their workweek just looking for information.That’s 1 full day a week lost to the scroll, search, and Slack ping. Let’s fix that. 📢 Join us for a free…

Having done 30+ demos for customers and partners at AppFox, I often hear the same document management challenges coming up again and again. They are issues that can create confusion, risk non-compliance, or slow down collaboration across teams. Whether you're in a regulated industry or simply want to work smarter, these…

According to McKinsey, the average employee spends nearly a full day each week just searching for internal information or tracking down colleagues. That’s a huge productivity drain — especially for HR teams managing onboarding, policies, and compliance content in Confluence. We think Confluence can (and should) work…

✅ Keeping Confluence spaces organised and easy to navigate✅ Ensuring content is reviewed, approved, and up to date✅ Lack of visibility into who’s responsible for what✅ Manual processes that slow down collaboration✅ Confusion around where to find important documents Let us know in the comments or 👉 Vote now on Slido 👀 If…

Are your HR teams struggling with: ❌ Scattered content across Confluence spaces?❌ No visibility into policy approvals?❌ Manual processes slowing down onboarding and training? Communardo and AppFox have a solution for you. Join us for a free 45-minute webinar and discover how to streamline HR operations, improve the…

I’ve worked with collaboration tools long before they became mainstream. I embraced them immediately. When I joined AppFox two years ago, Confluence quickly became my go-to app because I saw its value. Collaboration is one of those words we use so often, it starts to lose meaning. It looks great in slide decks, fills blog…

At AppFox, as developers, we know development goes beyond just writing code. Product teams often collaborate with departments like marketing, customer support, and customer success, making a central hub essential for storing and sharing key documents. While Jira is critical for managing development tasks, Confluence is…

Spring has sprung and we’re thrilled to be counting down 2 weeks until we head over to sunny Anaheim for what is one of the most festive times in the Atlassian calendar! ☀️ As a Select Sponsor of Team ’25 we’re bringing an exciting lineup of events, demos and activities - whether you want to sharpen your knowledge of…

What do a Knowledge Hub and a restaurant have in common? A lot, actually! Imagine a restaurant. The kitchen full of activity, refining raw ingredients into perfect dishes. Guests enjoy seamless service in the dining area, unaware of the hard work behind the scenes. Your Knowledge Hub is like this. The kitchen handles…

Managing compliance documentation in Confluence is one thing - but exporting it with all the required metadata for audits and regulatory reviews? That’s where the real challenge begins. Good news! @Rina Nir from RadBee has created a Compliance Documentation with Workflow Metadata Template, now available in the K15t…

Managing controlled documents can be a nightmare - scattered tools, disconnected teams, and approvals that slow everything down. But what if you could streamline it all within Confluence? UPDATE: Watch the recording to discover how highly regulated teams can author, approve, and manage critical documents - all in…

We’re thrilled to introduce Automation Rules, a game-changing feature that enhances data governance in Confluence by automatically taking action whenever sensitive data is detected. This feature is part of the Compliance for Confluence app by AppFox and helps organizations improve security and compliance effortlessly. Why…