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.
Share a page or blog post
You can use the Share option in Confluence Cloud to email people a link to your page or blog post. This is a great way to invite your team to collaborate or to share information with a large group of people.
When a page has view restrictions, sharing it with someone won’t automatically give that person access to the page. Before sharing, check the page’s permissions settings to make sure the person you’re sharing with will have access.
Share by email
To share a Confluence Cloud page by email:
Open the page in Confluence Cloud.
Select the Share button in the top right.
Start typing the name of a person or team to see a list of suggestions, then select the right ones from the list. You can also enter a complete email address to invite someone outside your organization. Repeat this step to add multiple recipients.
(Optional) Add a custom message.
Select Send.
In addition to an email, Confluence Cloud users will also get a notification in the Confluence app.
Share using a link
To copy a link to a Confluence Cloud page:
Open the page in Confluence Cloud.
Select the Share button in the top right.
Select Copy Link, then paste the link into an email or anywhere else you want to share it.
Share in Slack
Save yourself the context switching and extra clicks of sharing Confluence content in Slack by doing it directly from Confluence. You can find the Share in Slack functionality in the Share window.
The Confluence Slack app is a system app and is installed by default for all Confluence sites, so anyone can directly use this without needing admins to install the app.
Connect a Slack workspace
To get started with Share in Slack, you first need to choose a Slack workspace to connect to Confluence.
To connect a Slack workspace:
Open any page in Confluence Cloud.
Select the Share button in the top right.
Select the Share in Slack tab.
Select Sign in.
This will prompt you to sign into the workspace you want to connect.
Share directly in Slack from Confluence
Once you’ve connected the right Slack workspace, you can start sharing directly in Slack.
To share in Slack:
Go to the page you want to share.
Select the Share button in the top right.
Select the Share in Slack tab.
Choose which Slack workspace to send to.
Choose the channel or person in that workspace.
Add an optional message
Select Share.
Change which Slack workspace to share in
In the Share in Slack tab, open the top dropdown.
Scroll to find the desired workspace or start typing in the dropdown to search for it.
Select the workspace.
If you don’t see the right Slack workspace to choose from, you may need to connect it.
To connect an additional workspace, select Add new workspace in the dropdown.
Who can I share with?
Pages and blog posts can be shared with individual users, groups, and teams in Confluence Cloud. You can also share with external users by entering their email address and inviting them to join the site.
What is a team?
A team in Confluence is a group of people with an Atlassian account, organized around real-world team like Product Design or Engineering. Anyone can start or join a team. Learn more.
Inviting external users
When you share content with someone outside Confluence Cloud, we send them an email inviting them to join your site. They’ll be prompted to create an Atlassian account before they can access your page or blog post.
When you invite an external user, you grant them access to Confluence, not just to your page. We add them to the default product group and start billing you for the new user.
In some cases, your invitation will be sent to an admin for approval first. This happens when:
Your site doesn’t allow existing users to invite others to join.
The recipient’s email address domain, like @gmail.com, isn’t on your site’s list of approved domains.
If an admin declines your request, you’ll be notified by email. The external recipient won’t be notified.
Learn how to control who gets access to your site.
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