Setup developer guidelines document with tags, comments & upvotes

[Maarten Troonbeeckx]

I have been tasked with setting up a developer guidelines document for our backend development team. My idea was to set up a Space where guidelines can be easily added by every developer in the team.

Every guideline:

• Should consist of a title, description and code snippets
• Should have tags for easy filtering 
• Should have the ability to be voted up or down
• Should have the ability to be commented on to discuss 

Is it possible to set up a flow like this in Confluence?

[Charly [DEISER] · Accepted solution]

Hi @Maarten Troonbeeckx 

Yes, with confluence you can set up a space and have everything you described.

• Guidelines -> you can create a Template (Create a template | Confluence Cloud | Atlassian Support) that fits your needs and will be reused every time you need to create a new guideline
• Tags -> By default confluence allows you add tags to the pages you create
• Votes -> this is the tricky part, by default you can't vote on pages, but there are few apps in the market place that provides this feature (Multivote & Enterprise Survey for Confluence | Atlassian Marketplace, Polls, votes & Enterprise social networking for Confluence. | Atlassian Marketplace, etc)
• Comments -> By default you can comment on the pages and create discussions around your content.

Hope this helps!

Cheers

[Maarten Troonbeeckx]

@Charly [DEISER] Thanks for clearing that up! 

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Hi @Maarten Troonbeeckx ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Your best way of working would be to create a template that the developers could use.

Check out the documentation on how to do this here: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/create-a-template/ , if your Confluence is on the .atlassian.net domain. Or here if it's a self hosted instance: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html

Cheers,
Peter