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  • Set up Confluence Cloud

    Get the high-level details you need to set up your Confluence Cloud site in order to meet your team's needs.

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    Learn how to create great content and organize it.

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    Learn how to collaborate on pages and blogs, get notified about activity, and view analytics to see how content is performing.

  • Manage your account and permissions in Confluence Cloud

    Adjust settings around who can see what content on your site and what actions they can perform on it.

  • Administer Confluence Cloud sites

    Find everything a site admin needs to know to keep their Confluence Cloud site running smoothly.

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    Get an overview of all the ways you can extend your Confluence content using macros and gadgets.

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  • Set up Confluence Cloud
    • Learn how Confluence Cloud works
      • What is Confluence Cloud?
      • Learn about Confluence Cloud plans
    • See how teams use Confluence Cloud
      • Use Confluence for technical documentation
      • Use Confluence for software teams
  • Create and organize work in Confluence Cloud
    • Navigate around Confluence
      • Experience the new Home page
      • Confluence navigation
    • Find content in Confluence Cloud
      • Search for pages and posts
      • Search the people directory
      • Confluence search syntax
    • Use spaces to organize your work
      • Create a blank space
      • Create a space from a template
      • Choose a space key
      • Navigate spaces
      • Organize your space
      • Find pages in a space
      • Set up your space homepage
      • Use labels to categorize spaces
      • Customize your space
      • Archive a space
      • Delete a space
    • Create and edit content
      • Create, edit, and publish a page
      • Format your page
      • Use symbols, emojis, and special characters
      • Keyboard shortcuts, markdown, and autocomplete
      • Insert links and anchors
      • Learn about Confluence Cloud editing improvements
      • Confluence Cloud editor roadmap
      • Convert pages to the new editor
      • Create a custom report
      • View a page
    • Pre-format your content with templates
      • Create a page from a template
      • Create a template
      • Edit a template
      • Promote a template
      • Delete or disable a template
    • Upload and manage files
      • Upload a file
      • Display files and images
      • Manage uploaded files
      • Share and comment on files
      • Edit an attached file
    • Keep content organized
      • Use labels to organize your content
      • Import content into Confluence Cloud
      • Move, copy, and hide pages
      • Archive pages
      • Restore archived pages to the page tree
      • Delete, restore, or purge a page
      • Save a page for later
    • Export content from Confluence Cloud
      • Export content to Word, PDF, HTML and XML
      • Customize exports to PDF
      • Advanced PDF export customizations
      • Create a PDF in another language
      • Wide tables may be cut off in PDF export
  • Collaborate on content and get notified in Confluence Cloud
    • Collaborate on content
      • Create a network of users
      • Like content to rate it
      • Mention a person or team
      • Share a page or blog post
      • Comment on pages and blog posts
      • Watch pages, spaces, and blogs
      • Manage watchers
    • Get notified about content and activity
      • View your notifications
      • Subscribe to email notifications
      • What is a Confluence RSS feed?
      • Build an RSS feed
      • Subscribe to pre-specified RSS feeds
      • Subscribe to a network RSS feed
    • View analytics to see how content is performing
      • View insights on your site
      • View insights on spaces
      • View insights on pages
      • Set viewing permissions for analytics
  • Manage your account and permissions in Confluence Cloud
    • Manage your account
      • Edit your profile
      • Edit your user settings
      • Change your Confluence password
      • Manage OAuth access tokens
      • Delete your account
    • Learn about Confluence Cloud permissions
      • What are Confluence Cloud permissions and restrictions?
      • Manage permissions in the Free plan of Confluence Cloud
    • Manage site-level permissions
      • What is a Confluence group?
      • Manage global permissions
      • What happens when an account is deactivated vs. deleted?
      • Set up public access
      • Inspect a user's permissions
      • Bypass access restrictions on a page with admin key
      • View the audit log
    • Manage permissions on the space level
      • What are space permissions?
      • Assign space permissions
      • Make a space public
      • Give access to unlicensed users from Jira Service Management
    • Manage permissions on the page level
      • Add or remove page restrictions
  • Administer Confluence Cloud sites
    • Get started as Confluence Cloud administrator
    • Functional differences in Confluence Cloud vs. Server
    • Migrate a Confluence Cloud site or space
      • Migrate a Confluence Cloud site to an existing cloud site
      • Migrate from Confluence Cloud to Server
      • Import a Confluence Cloud space
      • Create a site backup
    • Configure Confluence Cloud
      • Configure the indexing language
      • Enable OpenSearch
      • Configure number formats
      • Configure shortcut links
      • Configure time and date formats
      • Enable threaded comments
      • Disable likes
      • Configure Captcha for spam prevention
      • Hide external links from search engines
      • Disable anonymous access to remote API
      • Configure user email visibility
      • Configure the autosave interval for drafts
      • Configure the recommended updates email notification
      • Configure attachment size
    • Change the look and feel of Confluence Cloud
      • Change your site and space logos
      • Customize a site's color schemes
      • Install a theme
      • Apply a theme to a site
    • Change the default behavior and content in Confluence Cloud
      • Change the site title
      • Configure the administrator contact page
      • Configure the site homepage
      • Customize default space content
      • Edit the site welcome message
      • Choose a default language
      • Insert Confluence wiki markup
    • Administer global templates
      • Create a global template
      • Delete or disable a global template
      • Edit a global template
      • Install a global blueprint
  • Extend the functionality of Confluence Cloud
    • Use macros to show Confluence content on pages
      • What are macros?
      • Learn which macros are being removed
      • Insert the attachments macro
      • Insert the blog posts macro
      • Insert the change-history macro
      • Insert the children display macro
      • Insert the content by label macro
      • Insert the content report table macro
      • Insert the contributors macro
      • Insert the contributors summary macro
      • Insert the create from template macro
      • Insert the excerpt macro
      • Insert the excerpt include macro
      • Insert the include page macro
      • Insert the labels list macro
      • Insert the network macro
      • Insert the popular labels macro
      • Insert the profile picture macro
      • Insert the recently updated macro
      • Insert the recently updated dashboard macro
      • Insert the related labels macro
      • Insert the spaces list macro
      • Insert the task report macro
      • Insert the user profile macro
      • Insert the decision report macro
    • Use macros to add development info on Confluence pages
      • Insert the code block macro
      • Insert the Jira issues macro
      • Insert the Jira chart macro
      • Insert the Jira roadmap macro
    • Use macros to include media on Confluence pages
      • Insert the Google Drive macro
      • Insert the Microsoft OneDrive for Business macro
      • Insert Microsoft Office macros
      • Insert the multimedia macro
      • Insert the PDF macro
      • Insert the widget connector macro
    • Use macros to add navigation on Confluence pages
      • Insert the Livesearch macro
      • Insert the navigation map macro
      • Insert the page index macro
      • Insert the page tree macro
      • Insert the page tree search macro
      • Insert the table of contents macro
      • Insert the table of content zone macro
    • Use macros to add reporting info to Confluence pages
      • Insert the page properties macro
      • Insert the page properties report macro
      • Insert the user list macro
    • Use macros to add visuals and images to Confluence pages
      • Insert the chart macro
      • Insert the gallery macro
      • Insert the iFrame macro
      • Insert the roadmap planner macro
    • Review macros only available in the legacy editor
      • Insert the anchor macro
      • Insert the cheese macro
      • Insert the column macro
      • Insert the content by user macro
      • Insert the create space button macro
      • Insert the expand macro
      • Insert the favorite pages macro
      • Insert the global reports macro
      • Insert the IM presence macro
      • Insert the info, tip, note, and warning macros
      • Insert the JUnit report macro
      • Insert the noformat macro
      • Insert the panel macro
      • Insert the recently used labels macro
      • Insert the search results macro
      • Insert the section macro
      • Insert the space attachments macro
      • Insert the space details macro
      • Insert the status macro
      • Insert the lorem ipsum macro
    • Use gadgets to add dynamic content
      • Add the activity stream gadget
      • Add the Confluence page gadget
      • Add the Confluence quicknav gadget
    • Use Confluence with other applications
      • Manage your apps
      • Use Slack and Confluence together
      • Use Jira and Confluence together
      • Use Trello and Confluence together
    • Use Team Calendars for Confluence
      • Take the Team Calendars quick tour
      • Create, add, and edit calendars
      • Restrict a calendar
      • Add events
      • Add Jira events
      • See standard event types
      • Add and delete custom event types
      • Add reminders to events
      • Embed calendars on Confluence pages
      • Watch a calendar
      • Subscribe to Google Calendars from Confluence
      • Subscribe to Team Calendars from Google Calendar
      • Subscribe to Team Calendars from Microsoft Outlook
      • Subscribe to Team Calendars from Apple iOS Calendar
      • Subscribe to Team Calendars from Apple Calendar
      • Export to other calendars
      • Delete or remove a calendar
      • Install Team Calendars
      • Set system properties
      • Team Calendars FAQs
    • Use Questions for Confluence
      • Get started with Questions for Confluence
      • Install Questions for Confluence
      • What are Questions permissions?
      • Ask a question
      • Watch and edit topics
      • What are votes and experts?
      • Integrate questions with your spaces
      • Administer Questions
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Configure Confluence Cloud

This section focuses on settings and configurations within the Confluence application.

  • Configuring the Confluence Search and Index
  • Other Settings
  • Configuring Confluence Security
  • Configuring the Time Interval at which Drafts are Saved
  • Configuring the Recommended Updates Email Notification
  • View Space Activity
  • Configuring attachment size


  • Configure the indexing language

    Learn how sysadmins can change the indexing language to improve search results in Confluence Cloud.

  • Enable OpenSearch

    Set up OpenSearch so you can search your Confluence site from your browser's search bar.

  • Configure number formats

    Change how numbers are formatted on your Confluence site.

  • Configure shortcut links

    Create shortcut links for your Confluence site.

  • Configure time and date formats

    Change how the date and time are displayed on your Confluence site.

  • Enable threaded comments

    Allow threaded comments on your Confluence site.

  • Disable likes

    Turn off likes for your Confluence site.

  • Configure Captcha for spam prevention

    Learn how to configure Captcha to prevent spam.

  • Hide external links from search engines

    Learn how to hide external links from search engines to discourage spammers from posting to your site.

  • Disable anonymous access to remote API

    Prevent anonymous users from accessing the Confluence remote API.

  • Configure user email visibility

    Choose the email visibility settings that are best for your site.

  • Configure the autosave interval for drafts

    Choose how often drafts are autosaved when collaborative editing is unavailable.

  • Configure the recommended updates email notification

    Adjust settings for the recommended updates email notification.

  • Configure attachment size

    Set the maximum size for attachments on your Confluence site.

Last modified on Mar 25, 2020

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