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Instructions - Reel Studios Intranet
Reel Studios is one of our demo site companiesa fictional company. This company has set up a their Confluence using two Refined sites. One for the intranet and the other for documentation.
Follow the steps below to setup an intranet with Refined for Confluence Server and Data Center. We use our demo site a fictional company Reel Studios to walk you through the following steps.
Visit the demo site here See our demo site for an interactive view →
Learn how Arctic Rim built their intranet in 7 steps →
1. Theme
The theme used on Reel Studios intranet is a simple green theme. You can download and import the theme to your own instance from this file:
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The simplest way to create this look is to copy a bundled theme, and simply change the colour to match the green of Reel Studios, or even better, match it to your own brand.
More tips on building the theme here.
2. Structure
The structure of your site’s content very much depends on your organization’s business structure and the purpose of the site. Reel Studios opted for a structure where departments could each have a category acting like a ‘home’ they could work from.
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To understand how structure and organization in Refined works, here is an explainer: https://partners.refined.sitecom/space/RFCS/222756891
We go into this the site structure in more depth on our documentation https://docs.refined.com/x/CA1sAw
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Note: Customization of a space and pages works differently in our Cloud app, Refined for Confluence. Curious to understand the difference? Go here.
Customize the space layout and save it as a template. Refined includes a space layout editor where you can customize the side bar on a space, the space home page and save it as a template. We recommend saving your commonly used space layouts as templates to save on maintenance. Click here for more info on space layout options.
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Each page including space homes can easily gain a Refined dashboard feeling by using the inbuilt page macro called the ‘Content Layout Macro’. This is a great way to add visual links, search, and html links from space homes and pages. Click here for more info on the Content Layout Macro.
Confused by the terms site, category and/or space? Visit our Glossary section.
Working with news and blogs:
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Permissions on sites and categories (On-prem only for now)
Manage who can access which site using permissions. This is a great way of personalizing the content to the users accessing that site. More on managing view permissions here.
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Text variables are $labels in the admin layouts which automatically generate text for the end user. Reel Studios use it as a welcome message when entering the intranet. E.g., “Welcome $username”. More on text variables here.
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