Baselines for Confluence


1.Description


Baselines for Confluence is a plugin that gives you a chance to define a base for your documents on Confluence.

2.Installation

To install Baselines for Confluence follow these steps:

  1. Log in as a admin user with the Confluence Administrators.
  2. Select Add-ons from the Administration menu at the top right of your screen. 

 

You can install the Add-On in two ways : Install the Add-On from Marketplace or Upload an Add-On.

 

Upload an Add-On :

 

  1. Click the Manage Add-ons link.

  2. Click the Upload Add-on link at the top right side of the page.  

    The 'Upload Add-on' dialog appears. (Picture 1)



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Install the Add-On from Marketplace :


    Log into your Confluence instance as an admin.

  1. Click    the admin dropdown and choose Atlassian Marketplace.
  2. Click Find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page.
  3. Locate Baselines for Confluence via search. (Picture 2 )

  4. Click Try free to begin a new trial or Buy now to purchase a license for Baselines for Confluence.

  5. Enter your information and click Generate license when redirected to MyAtlassian.
  6. Click Apply license.   


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3.Configuration 

3.1 Create a Baseline

  1.      Click the "Space Tools" at the left bottom of a Space.
  2.      Click Baselines.
  3.      Click "New" to create a Baseline. (Picture 3)

  4.      Give a name and selected date for the Baseline.




           

           
Picture 3
 

3.2 Delete a Baseline

  1.   Click the garbage icon near baseline that you want to delete. (Picture 4)

                                                                                                             

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3.3 Compare Baselines 

  1.   Select two baselines that you want to compare. 
  2.   Click the 'Compare' button. (Picture 5 ) 

   




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3.4 Configure Security

In Baselines for Confluence admin panel gives you a chance to set a security level.

  1. Select Baselines for Confluence Settings from the Confluence Administration menu.
  2. You can basically select user groups for view and edit Baseline's. (Picture 6) 



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4. How It Works

 

 

 Confluence automatically creates a new version number every time a document edited. Baselines for Confluence helps you to save a collection of links to documents versions of a specific date & time. 
 After creating a baseline you can easily access specific versions of the documents in that baseline.


Baselines for Confluence only saves a collection of links to old versions of documents. It does not make a copy of those documents. If the document or its version is deleted from the space, document version in the baseline set will not be accessible.

                                                                                                           



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Baselines for Confluence also lets you select documents based on keywords. If you give a keyword in "What did you change" field while saving a document in Confluence you can use that keyword to select that document version while creating a baseline. If a keyword is provided when creating a baseline, Baselines for Confluence looks for the latest document marked with that keyword, before the given date. This feature can be used to distinguish between draft and stable versions.

 



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5. Support


 You can send an email to plugin@obss.com.tr to get support. 

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