Confluence Assignment & Lab – Pankaj Devrani

What are top 5 use cases of Confluence?

What is Space Vs Blogs Vs Pages

Space is used to organise content into a meaningful category. For e.g. Marketing, Development, Products
Blogs are used to share announcements, journal entries, status reports any other timely information
Pages are used to store information like technical knowledge, processes or meeting notes

List out Top 20 Macros of Confluence with one short intro

Macros are used to change the format and layout of the page or display media or perform actions from page.

Anchor macro – used to link specific part of the page
Attachment – display list of files attached
Code block macro – display code example
Children display macro – used to display a list of pages from a specific part of the page hierarchy
Content Report Table Macro – Content Report Table to a page to display a table of pages and blog posts with a specific label along with the creator and modified date
Favorite Pages Macro – display a list of all the pages you’ve saved for later
Jira Chart Macro – build visual graphs and charts from information in Jira
Jira Issues macro – display information from jira
HTML macro – embed content from an external website
Navigation Map Macro – display pages tagged with a specific label in a grid layout.
Network Macro – displays a list of Network activity on a Confluence page or blog post
Page Index Macro – Add the Page Index macro to a page to create an alphabetical index of all pages in the current space
Page Tree Macro – display all or part of the hierarchy of pages in a space
Office Excel Macro – display the contents of an Excel spreadsheet.

PDF Macro – display the content of a PDF document
Office PowerPoint Macro – display the content of a PowerPoint presentation
Status Macro – Add the Status macro to a page to highlight the status of a project, task, or item with a colored lozenge (rounded box)
Table of Contents Macro – Add the Table of Contents macro to a page to help your readers skip directly to the information they’re looking for
View File Macro – allow you to embed an Office or PDF document on a page.
Widget Connector Macro – embed online videos, slideshows, photostreams and more.