Atlassian rolled out the possibility to add Confluence whiteboards and smart links to the space left-hand menu, and we are investigating ways to support these new features. They won’t be shown on your Refined sites for now.
Confluence spaces
When you add a Confluence space to your site, you add all its pages and blog posts. You can feature them on customizable landing pages to help users navigate the space’s content. Confluence spaces make it possible to build intranets, documentation sites, and more.
Permissions
The space permissions you set up in native Confluence determine who can see the space on the Refined site.
Space permission | When the permission is set to “View”, these users can see the space |
|---|---|
Internal licensed users | Logged-in users from your team. |
Guest users | Logged-in guest users to whom you’ve granted access to the space. |
Anonymous access | Anyone: logged-in or not. Read more |
Add and edit a Confluence space
You can add a Confluence space to as many sites as you want.
Go to the site structure to add Confluence spaces and edit their settings. You can add multiple spaces at once, and you can only add spaces that you are permitted to view in your Confluence instance.
Use the Page Builder to edit the customizable landing page. For example, you can show a news feed with Confluence blog posts, links to other relevant pages, or important announcements.
Use space settings to customize the space’s pages and blog posts.
Add a preview image and text to the space landing page, Confluence pages, and Confluence blog posts.
Settings
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Name | Change what the space is called in Refined. This doesn’t change the name of the space in your Confluence instance. Likewise, changing the name of a space in your Confluence instance also doesn’t change the name of that space in your Refined site. The space’s name appears in the site structure, the site’s navigation menu, and the left-hand navigation menu on Confluence pages. |
Show in the Navigation Menu | Show the space in the navigation menu and in the Site Navigation module. In some cases, you may want to hide a space. For example to use information from a space only in a specific module. |
Landing page | A landing page is a customizable page that helps users find their way to the space’s pages and blogs. Users access this page through the navigation menu, modules, or search. When the landing page is disabled, users go to directly into the space instead. This can be the first page in the space or the space overview, depending on the space settings. |
Theme | By default, the Confluence space inherits your site’s theme. You can change the theme here. |
Connected with | See what the space is called in native Confluence. |
Look and feel
While the crisp branded look that Refined adds to Confluence pages is widely appreciated by users, there are situations where you may want to show your pages exactly how they look in native Confluence. For example when they include some of the few formatting or macros that Refined doesn’t (fully) support.
In that case, embed Confluence pages on private Refined sites so they look just as they do in native Confluence.