This page is not meant to replace the extensive information in the Confluence User's Guide. This page does provide some tips to help you to edit pages and contribute to this wiki. Feel free to add to this page with your own tips or frequent tasks.
- Where can I find the complete wiki syntax?
- How do you change the name of a page?
- How do you change a page's parent?
- How do you copy a file?
- Where can I play with the wiki software? Is there a scratch pad?
- Where can I find formatting examples?
- How do I get stars and checkmarks and stuff (aka glyphs and smilies)?
- How do you escape special characters?
- How can I add urls to my wiki page so that they are rendered without an actual html link?
Where can I find the complete wiki syntax?
Here is the Full Notation Guide. This link is available when you are in the Wiki Markup edit mode.
How do you change the name of a page?
- To put the page in edit mode, click the Edit tab while viewing the page.
- Change the page title in the first editable field.
- Click Save.
How do you change a page's parent?
Every time you add a new page, the current page you were viewing is automatically assigned as the new page's parent. To change the parent for a page, do the following:
- To put the page in edit mode, click the Edit tab while viewing the page.
The Location field under the page title field provide the current parent for the page. - Change the parent page in the Parent Page field.
You can either type in the parent page or click on the magnifying glass icon to display the page browser.
How do you copy a file?
- Click the Info tab on the page you want to copy.
- Click the Copy link in the Operations field.
An editable copy of the current page is displayed and the title has "Copy of" prepended to the new page's title.
Where can I play with the wiki software? Is there a scratch pad?
We have a [SandBox] space where you can experiment with the wiki. Do not edit someone's pages in other spaces just to try our wiki, use the [SandBox] space for this.
Confluence Site Dashboard also contains a number of preexisting test spaces, such as I Like Cheese.
Where can I find formatting examples?
There is a Confluence Overview space on the Confluence site.
How do I get stars and checkmarks and stuff (aka glyphs and smilies)?
All of these and more are documented here
How do you escape special characters?
You can use the '\' to escape special characters.
How can I add urls to my wiki page so that they are rendered without an actual html link?
There is a nolink macro that can be used for this:
{nolink:http://sun.com}
or a short version:
{nl:http://sun.com}
The result: http://sun.com