On our wiki I’m trying to avoid using it as a document repository (Sharepoint) and have encouraged people to convert Word documents to a page versus simply attaching a document. Confluence makes this relatively easy! Hit the Tools menu and click “Doc Import”. You will be presented with a simple upload field. After browsing and [...]
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Got one of those co-workers who just HAS to kill a tree? Confluence can help! OK. So Atlassian probably didn’t create this feature to kill trees – imagine during development you can enter all your documentation in Confluence then easily dump it all out and provide it to your customer at the end! You can [...]
Another quick Confluence tip. I’m often adding pages to the wiki and want to let my team now about them so I send out a URL in email. Often this can be very long depending on the name of the page. Instead of using a third party URL shortening tool like Snurl or TinyURL you [...]
In addition to JIRA (which is our bug tracking system) I’ve been working on getting Confluence (wiki) setup as part of our knowledge management system. We have Sharepoint but I find that a real pain to use for anything other than document storage. As I get things setup I thought I’d post on some features [...]
I recently overhauled my wiki – switching from Mediawiki back to Dokuwiki. Lots of reasons for the switch but one of the big benefits is there is now a RSS feed for recent changes! You can add this link to your feedreader and easily find out when I update something. I’m regularly adding links that [...]