Confluence Whiz Resources

This is a collection of some additional resources to supplement a talk given at Atlassian Summit 2017 in San Jose called Become a Confluence Whiz Kid: Beautiful Pages and Organized Spaces.

General Confluence How To Resources

Confluence 101 series & blogs

Confluence documentation is always a good place to start.

The following provide an introduction to Confluence concepts with hands on tips, similar to the presentation

Create Content with Pages
- Download the whole 101 e-book from the bottom of this article!
Organize work in Spaces
12 things you didn't know about the Confluence editor

Use case specific advice

Confluence for Software Teams
- Guides to creating specific types of pages like release planning pages, sprint retrospectives, etc.

Atlassian Community

Ask questions and share tips with other Confluence (and Atlassian) users from around the world, online and in person

Atlassian Community - Confluence - interact online
Join an Atlassian User Group in your city to meet people and exchange ideas in person!

Team Playbook

Guide to improving how your team's work, with lots of templates for activities and pages you might want to create.

Atlassian Team Playbook

Confluence Whiz Kid Resources

Macro list

Macro name	What it does
Info, Warning, and Tip	Puts your content in a colored box with appropriate label (Tip Warning etc)
Expand	Click here to experience it! Hides content in a neat little expander section like this!
Status	ON TRACK - adds one of these labels. Text and color are changeable.
Content by label	Displays a list of pages based on label(s) you select. Learn more here.
Roadmap	Creates a visual roadmap on your page with customizable bars, milestones, timescale, etc. Learn more here or see an example here
JIRA Issues	Displays a list of JIRA issues on your page. You can customize which fields show up. Learn more here, including information on how to use JQL (JIRA Query Language)
JIRA Charts	Choose from pie chart, created vs resolved, or two dimensional charts to display visual representation of your JIRA information on your page. Learn how here.
Excerpt & Excerpt Include	Includes content from one page on another page. Learn how here.
Page Properties & Page properties report	Show a summary of information from multiple pages on one page with the page properties report. Requires use of page properties macro on each of those pages. Learn more.