Confluence capabilities

[Jessica Brasington]

Someone had advised me that Confluence was good as a Document Repository. In the Confluence Menu, I'm not seeing that option. Is it referred to under a different type category? 

[Robert Hean · Accepted solution]

Heya @Jessica Brasington - would be curious to hear more about what you need to do.

For example, Confluence can store documents as attachments and provide versioning/history of information, which could be a 'document repository'.

[Jessica Brasington]

@Robert Hean - To current, our organization has saved all relative documents for each project in Sharepoint. It's always difficult to locate depending upon the file path. I have been told that one of the benefits to Confluence was that I could utilize the site to keep all relative documents (vendor contracts, and all other documents relative to vendor relations) in Confluence. That it serves as a document repository. Does that help? 

[Jessica Brasington]

@Robert Hean - awesome suggestion. Care to provide pointers? 

[Shikha Verma]

Hi, @Jessica Brasington. As @Robert Hean suggests, you can use attachments for the 'document repository'. For that, open the page where you want to upload the document. Click on the Attachments option in the page menu or drag and drop files directly into the page editor.
For more information, please refer to Confluence basics.

[Robert Hean]

@Jessica Brasington - @Shikha Verma nailed it - you can create content and attach files.

You can also label individual attachments to help organize them.

You may also want to consider other requirements beyond 'put document on page', e.g. there's no native ability to check documents in/out.

[Jay Maechtlen]

Terminology... As you see in the other answers, it depends a bit on what you mean by 'document repository' and what capabilities you want.

Your primary documentation might be Confluence pages, in which case the site itself would be your repository of documents? 

Note: in either SharePoint or Confluence, it is really easy to have the same document in multiple places, leading to different versions of the "same" document. This is obviously bad. A proper repository should forbid this, or at least help you avoid it.

Re finding stuff in SharePoint - I like to export a SharePoint page/space to Excel, which creates a query.

That lets me refresh the query when I wish, and get an Excel sheet showing files in our SharePoint site across many folders, I can sort/filter, etc...

fwiw