Features
Some of the features of the Confluence connector include:
- Performs incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
- Fetches access control lists (ACLs) for document level security
- Is search engine independent
- Runs from any machine with access to the given Confluence URLs
- Suppports HTTP and HTTP's
- Designed for supporting early binding mechanisms
For a Complete tutorial on Confluence see hereFor a description of the content organization on Confluence see here
Summary of Confluence organization
This is the hierarchy of spaces/pages/blogs/attachments/comments for Confluence versions 3.5 to 5.1:
- Dashboard: Is the first page you see when login to Confluence, it provides quick access to the top level features of Confluence.
- Spaces: Spaces are containers that group content related to a specific theme or topic. Spaces contain pages and blogs.
- Pages: Like a web page or a page in a book, pages are places where you write content related to a specific theme or topic. Pages can contain attachments and comments
- Attachments: Documents (images, files, videos, etc) that are embedded in a page or blog and contain relevant information about the topic or theme the page/blog is talking about.
- Comments: Remarks users leave on a page or blog to share information with other users.
- Blogs: A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order. Blog. Confluence blogs can contain attachments and comments