Refined sites are containers for categories and spaces. In other words, with Refined you add another level of organisation to your Confluence instance.
One Confluence instance can have several sites, and each site can work as an independent part of your Confluence with its own top menu, theme, and structure.
Site Builder
The Site Builder is the essence of your Refined site. Here, you can:
Create sites.
Build a site’s structure and navigation.
Organise your spaces into categories.
Apply themes.
Access the Site Builder
Go to Confluence Administration > Manage apps.
Click Refined Configuration > Open Refined Administration.
Head to the Site Builder tab.
Or:
On the Refined site, click the Cogwheel in the top right corner.
Click Refined Administration.
Go to the Site Builder tab.
Edit a site’s settings
When you add a site, you set up its general, navigation, permissions and theme settings. You can edit these settings later at any time by clicking a site’s Cogwheel > Edit.
General
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Site name | Each site has a name that is shown in the Site Switcher. It is also used in modules and when making content dynamic with text variables. |
Site URL suffix | The site URL is the link that directs users to your site. For each site, you can customise the path: the part that comes after the / (for example: http://www.example.com/pathexample). |
Site ID | A unique number for the site. |
Site logo | If this has not been specifically set on a site, it will show the logo set for your Confluence instance in General Configuration > Look and feel > Site Logo and Favicon. |
Navigation
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Show site switcher | The Site Switcher is an easy way for users to navigate between your Refined sites. |
Main navigation | Determine the style of the category menu. |
Permissions
View permissions determine which users can see the site. Administrator permissions determine who can manage the site.
Theme
Click Change theme to apply a specific theme to this site. Alternatively, click Use default theme to apply the global theme.
Global site
By default, you will have one global site. You can activate Refined as the global theme to change the look and feel of your Confluence instance. Alternatively, you can keep the native Confluence look and feel and only apply Refined to specific spaces.
Global settings made in the Refined Administration apply to all sites, unless specific settings are applied on a site-level.
Full sites and single space sites
When you add a site to your Refined setup, you can make it a Full Site or a Single Space site.
A full site is a whole site with spaces, categories, and theming:
It has its own site home.
It has its own URL
If you hide the Site Switcher in the top left corner, you can create an independent Site within your Confluence. For instance, this lets you create a collaboration area for your technical documentation.
A single space site holds just one space:
Instead of a category menu, the site has its navigation in the side bar.
Instead of a site home, the site has the space home as its landing page.
You can set a theme on just this one space, and keep the default Confluence look and feel for the rest of your Confluence instance.
You can remove theming from this site.