Introduction
- Goal is to give you some ideas to explore further
- Confluence compared to other services
- Creating a Confluence Site
- Creating a list of pages
- Using Templates
- Happy to meet with you one on one or in a group
- Please interrupt and ask questions
- From Yesterday
- No Email Storm Setting in your personal settings
- Working with MS Office documents
Browser based collaboration services used on campus
This list is incomplete and is based on Paul Davis' understandings. It has not been broadly vetted. Please add comments and corrections.
# | Type | Service | Description | Best For | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Web site | Quick web page builder with |
| It's strength is that it is so general purpose. Recommended | |
2 | Doc mgmt | cornell.box. com | Document storage and management on the web and synced to your computer |
| Recommended |
3 | Doc mgmt | File Share | Document storage and management |
| Not browser based |
4 | Doc mgmt | Office documents on the web. Multiple people can edit them at the same time |
| Recommended for multiple concurrent authors or
| |
5 | Doc mgmt | Sharepoint | Work group website, document repository, workflow engine, etc. |
| Doesn't deal with large numbers of documents well. |
6 | Doc mgmt | TeamForge | Developer tool that has document management, issue management, wiki, release management, version control, etc. |
| Primarily a developer tool, but was used heavily before Confluence to allow sharing and commenting on documents. Very few non-developer users now. Not recommended. |
7 | Forms | cornell. qualtrics.edu | Survey tool. Simple or complex forms. |
| RAIS has developed simple workflows based on emailing Recommended |
8 | outlook. cornell.edu shared account | Shared email and calendar account that can be used by multiple people |
| Avoid using personal email addresses as the definitive Recommended | |
9 | Notes | Evernote.com | Note gathering that syncs to all devices and shares |
| Great for capturing whiteboard photos to post to confluence, or email. Not formally supported by Cornell. |
10 | Notes | OneNote | Note taker with ability to share on the web |
| |
11 | Web site | blogs. cornell.edu | Word Press Blog site specific to Cornell |
| Best for less than ~100 pages with relatively few contributors... unless it's a blog, or blog like site. IWS can be hired for a small fee to set up a site for research groups. |
12 | Web site | Drupal | Web Content Management System |
| Drupal is growing in popularity on campus for large complex sites. Best to hire a specialist to set up. Recommended |
13 | Web site | Common Spot | Web Content Management System |
| CommonSpot was the most common web CMS for large sites on campus, but is being overtaken by Drupal. Not recommended. |
Creating Confluence Sites
- Request space
- Create or edit homepage
- Describe the purpose of the site
- Show the site map --> {Include Children} macro
- Edit the sidebar
- Add permissions (Left column: Space Tools: Permissions)
- 3 Groups to start with
- Can add cornell-confluence-users to restrict to Cornell users
- Add users
- Add children pages
- Confluence Help
- Cornell's Confluence Help
- Altasian's Confluence Help --> menu in upper right
Lists of Pages – Our Symposium
- Create parent page
- Include Children
- Using Excerpts
- Using Page Properties
- Blogs (RASS, RASSVS)
- Email archive (restricted)
Templates
- Using Templates to structure content
- Examples
- Forms
- Document management
- Project docs
- Work Breakdown
- Meeting Notes
- Requirements documents
- Using built in templates
- Creating templates
- Examples