Stellar-OB-003-Confluence-FAQ

Confluence is a wiki and collaboration tool.

• It combines powerful online writing capabilities
• Deep office integration
• Extensive plugin catalog to help people to work better together
• Share information

• Email is for communication not for collaboration so confluence helps in collaborating the work.
• Email is very confusing and too long process to modify the documents among people

• There will be no duplication of the content
• There will be only one current version

• The front page of a confluence site
• it provides on overview access to all spaces
• displays a list of the most recently updated content

A person who write the articles 

Reviewer who reviews the article from top to bottom which is written by contributor and if the article is well good he will approve the article.

Publisher is who publishes the  article which is reviewed and approved by reviewer and app-rover.

The notification will be shown that who all editing the page and it saves all the details.

If someone else has saved the page before you, when you click Save, Confluence will check if there are any conflicts between your changes and theirs. If there are no conflicting changes, Confluence will merge the changes.

If there are conflicts, Confluence will display them for you and give you the option to:

• Continue editing - Continue to edit the page; useful if you want to manually merge the changes.  
• Overwrite - Replace the other person's edits with yours (their edits will not be included in the latest version). 
• Cancel - Discard your changes and exit the editor, keeping the other person's edits.