Confluence Training

• Example sites
  • "Global" Theme --> 
    • ERI – Makes heavy use of the built in templates
    • RAS – Makes use of include excerpt macro to bring table of contents from one page to the summary on the homepage
    • RASSVS – (restricted) Makes heavy use of the built in and custom templates
    • IACUC – (restricted) Uses tables of attachments, Uses page properties listing to show table of form fields
  • Documentation Theme --> 
    • RAIDR, RASS – Project sites
    • RAIS – (restricted) Department site
• Edit a page
• Add to do items
• Create a page (Profile for a talk)
  • Talk description
  • Bio text
  • Picture
  • Upload Resume
  • Headings
  • Table of Contents
• Commenting (on profile we just created)
  • Addressing Comments
• Menus
  • Help
  • Bread Crumbs
  • Watching pages
  • Menu items of interest
    • Favourite
    • Link to this page – Short link for emailing
    • View Source
    • Export to PDF / Word
    • Move
  • Your Account
• If we have time
  • Page layout, columns and sections

  • Gliffy

Topics for 9/9/2015

• When to use Confluence or other web services such as Qualtrics, blogs.cornell.edu, cornell.box.com, docs.google.com,outlook.cornell.edu, Sharepoint, and Drupal
• Creating confluence sites
• Managing users and permissions
• Using Macros to organize and/or include content from other pages
  • Include Children
  • Using labels
  • Include Excerpts
  • Page Properties
  • Including Jiras
• Blogs
• Email archive
• Using Templates to structure content
  • Examples
    • Forms
    • Document management
    • Project docs
    • Work Breakdown
    • Meeting Notes
    • Requirements documents
  • Using built in templates
  • Creating templates