Kris Klima _K15t_ Community Champion

You finally found it: the exact Confluence app that will eliminate your team’s workflow nightmare. You are ready to install it, but instead, you hit a brick wall – the vendor approval process. Let’s look into the best practices that will help you get that new app approved. As an Atlassian Marketplace Partner, I spend my…

Anonymous access to Confluence spaces is a quick way to share content with a public audience. But anonymous access is not without risks and that’s why many organizations ban it the moment the discussion rightly shifts from what should be public to what could accidentally become public. In this article, we’ll show you how…

Hi everyone! I wrote an article over on the Community Confluence forums about how to stop fighting with multilingual content in Confluence. All Aboard the Localization Train: Scaling Translation of Your Confluence Docs I discuss how to scale localization workflows on Confluence from using Rovo AI all the way to the…

Translating documentation, well, any kind of content, always faces two hurdles: accuracy and process. The consequences of getting it wrong? Sometimes it’s a funny support ticket, sometimes it’s a hefty regulatory fine. And a massive headache every single time. So what are you options for creating AND managing multi-lingual…

Guest, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin, Confluence Admin I wrote a little piece about managing Confluence guests in the Community's Confluence section. Adding guests is an awesome money-saver, right until you end up with hundreds of forgotten zombie accounts and a very stressed-out admin. I…

Inviting Guests to your Confluence party sounds great but there are house rules. Let’s look at dos, and don'ts to ensure that collaboration happens and the admin stays happy. Say you’re working on a customer success story with a client. Or you’re developing a new feature and need to work with contractors. Either way, your…

Your Confluence admin is too strict and you’re glad you can edit a page. You keep hearing about all those marvelous Confluence apps but you cannot test them. Or you’re building your own app and need to document it in an, ideally free, CMS. Let’s explore a couple of scenarios where free Confluence really shines and grants…

Me: I’m not a developer, I cannot code a prototype… Member of the Patent Review Board: You don’t need a functional prototype and you don't have to be a developer. But you need to be able to describe your invention in such a way that an Engineer can build it or a Developer can code it. Hey everyone! I recently decided to…

Let’s cut to the chase here. If you’re a Confluence admin and try to change space settings here, Confluence settings there, specific app’s settings are who knows where… You may end up clicking your way into the oblivion of pages, subpages, menus and so on. So here’s a little hack. Simply use the iframe macro to embed those…

OK, this hack's a bit on the Fun Friday side but it works :) You probably heard about the new page version history in Confluence. Opinions are split but there's one funny bit about that which might interest folks who need to do compliance and such. Anyway... So you compare two pages and you get an ad-hoc page with the…

If you're tired of hunting through endless Confluence menus and settings pages, you might be interested to learn how to bring everything on to a single page. This article I posted in the Confluence Community section shows a simple hack - using the iFrame macro to embed your most important admin and content pages, such as…

Screenshots, photos, and images in general can really make your Confluence pages interesting to your readers. I recently posted an article here on Community about how to Make every screenshots count in your Confluence documentation. I discuss both the screenshot sins and the best practices for taking and adjusting…

One of my best contoured memories from my days in journalism is arguing with my editor-in-chief about a photo I chose for one of the international news pages. He didn't like it. And found the photo important enough to intervene. A photo can make or break the page. Documentation is no different. A wall of text is offputing.…

There’s no magic bullet. Just a lot of questions. “I’m the only technical writer…” “I manage a product documentation team and our company is transitioning…” “Our documentation resources are scattered all over the place and we want to launch a public doc site…” If I had a nickel for every time a writer, documentation…

Hello there, In my space, I have about 50% of the content translated to 6 languages + English being the 'source' language. I don't need to translate the remaining half. Is there a way to use the Include macro (or similar) to include the English version content on the, say, French page? The idea is to: a) allow the user to…