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Welcome to your newly migrated Refined site on Confluence Cloud. Find out the next steps to finalize the site configuration and effectively onboard your users in the cloud environment.

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Configure your site

Set up your site in the Refined Administration.

Create and apply themes

Themes aren’t migrated with the migration assistant and need to be re-created manually. Read how it's done or watch our in-depth video guide:

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Upgrade your landing pages

Landing pages are the cloud equivalent of space layouts and category homes. Cloud has an updated editing experience compared to server/data center, as well as enhanced customisation customization functionality.

Learn more about page building on cloud

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After migration, check all your landing pages to make sure they look and work as intended. Some pages may incur design changes when migrated to Cloud, including those with:

  • Custom CSS

  • HTML modules

  • Cards modules

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Add your custom domain

Using a custom domain further aligns your Refined site with your brand, and makes your Refined site easier to access and remember for your end users. You can connect a custom domain of your choice on each Refined site you migrate to cloud.

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Permission type

Let you control

Site access permissions

Who can visit your site.

Permissions in the site structure

Who can see specific Refined Pages, links and menu folders.

Landing pages of Refined pages, Confluence spaces, Jira projects, and JSM projects.

Who can see specific parts of a landing page.

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Confluence and JSM permissions that are more restrictive than your Refined Sites permissions still apply. For example, site visitors can only access a Confluence page on a Refined site that they have access to in native Confluence.

Set up administrator permissions

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Due to the parallel setup on cloud, you’ll be able to reach content through multiple URLs: to content can be reached through native Confluence and to your Refined sites – all of which have their own URL. Make sure that end-users only see your Refined sites, by:

  • Redirecting your server/data center site URLs to the new Refined sites URLs.

  • Adding a header banner on native Confluence spaces to guide users to the Refined site. This is added in Space permissions → Look and Feel → Page Layout on the Confluence Space settings

  • Only sharing the Refined site URL in your communication, e.g. your website, social media, etc.

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When you add a link to one Confluence page on another Confluence page, you don’t need to

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use the Refined site URL. Internal Confluence links work on your Refined sites and keep users on the Refined site, as long as the page you linked to is in a Confluence page that’s added to the site.

Content creators

The parallel cloud setup also means that the content creation experience is different from server/data center. To prepare your content creators for this new way of working, they can read send them this documentation article or watch and this video on the topic:

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Additionally, it’s important that content creators understand which macros are supported and how to use them effectively to guarantee content renders correctly on Refined sites. They can read this documentation article or watch the following video:

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Why not transform your Confluence instance into even more sites users love — you can create an unlimited amount of sites with your Refined Sites for Cloud subscription:

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Get started with Refined Sites for Confluence Cloud

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Build an intranet

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. Why not build an intranet, help & support site

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, and a documentation site/knowledge base?

Get started with Refined Sites for Confluence Cloud

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Need more help?

Have a look at the FAQ and the Videos, demos & other resources page.

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