SciLifeLab Demo Space
Apr 1, 2020
This demo space was created as a compliment to the https://scilifelab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SCP/pages/6291463 and aims at giving an example of how a Confluence space can be used and organized. For questions or comments regarding the demo or your confluence setup, please contact datacentre@scilifelab.se.
If nothing else is stated, instructions assume that the user is in edit mode (symbol: pen, top right).
Table of Contents
A table of contents can be created by (in edit mode) clicking:
Insert (+, at the top of the page) - Table of Contents
or (if Table of Contents is not listed)
Insert - View more - Table of Contents.
Getting started - Video tutorial
Old version
Useful links
Link | Description |
This links to a page containing 120 short video clips (~1 min) which show you how to navigate and use Confluence. | |
Here you can get inspiration and help with Confluence using the documentation, FAQs or via the Atlassian community. |
Terminology
Space
A Confluence space is a collection of all information, documents, images, etc. regarding a specific topic or project. For example, this space (“SciLifeLab Demo Space”) contains a guide and examples of how to use Confluence. Spaces consist of pages.
Page
Pages can contain any type of information that you want, in any order you want. You can either create blank pages and structure it yourself from scratch, or create pages from a range of different templates.
https://scilifelab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/demo/pages/20250702 is an example of a “blank” page.
Child-page
Pages can also have their own “sub-pages” - child-pages.
https://scilifelab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/demo/pages/20643944 is an example of a sub-page.
Demo space structure
This page - Overview
This page aims to give you some information on how to get started, and give you some tips and maybe spark a few ideas on what your Overview page could contain.
Example pages
There are two sets of example pages:
Page 1 containing one child-page, Child-page 1. These are referred to in the text above (Terminology) and illustrates the page structure you can build in Confluence.
Example pages. This page has a few child-pages, each illustrating a useful macro or addressing its own good-to-know subject.
Template pages
The Template pages contain pages created from different types of templates.
To-do list
A task report lists the tasks within a space or page which match a set of conditions you specify. For example, you can choose to display tasks within your current or another space, within a specific page, if the tasks should be completed or not, etc. The following task report lists all unfinished tasks within the demo space. In this example, all tasks were created in the page.
Files within this page
The Attachments macro allows you to collect all files, images etc., belonging to one or more pages. The list below shows all attachments belong to the page. View the page to see examples of how to add different types of attachments to a page.
Project tracking
As a final example on this page, we want to mention the possibility of integrating a number of different applications, including Trello and other project planning functionalities. These are automatically updated if and when changes are made on their home sites. However, Confluence enables you to use the applications via the macro - you now have everything connected to this project in one place.