Terminology

• Confluence - Enterprise wiki provided by DoIT. We often use the terms "Confluence" and "Staff Wiki" interchangeably.

• Space - Confluence organizes content into "Spaces." UMBC has several spaces; our space is the Library Space. The Dashboard lists all of the Spaces available at UMBC. You can also access a personal Space by logging into the Staff Wiki and clicking on your name at the top of the page, or by going to

  https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/~UMBC_USERNAME.

• Parent Page - A page that has other pages created underneath it. A parent page may be a child of another page.

• Children - These are pages created underneath the parent page and associated with it. A child of one page may be a parent of other pages.

• Rich Text Editor - This editor allows you to enter content as you would in a Word document, and apply formatting simply by clicking icons on a toolbar.

• Wiki Markup Editor - This editor allows you to edit Confluence pages directly in wiki markup language. Some advanced layout editing is only possible in the Wiki Markup Editor.

• Labels - User-defined tag words that can be assigned to pages and bookmarks to categorize or identify content.

Navigating the Staff Wiki

• Left Menu - Displays expandable list of site contents.

  • Click on the + symbol to expand the list; Click on the link name to go to the selected page

• Menu Bar

  Open

  

  • Breadcrumbs - see where you are in the wiki hierarchy and navigate to higher-level pages

  • Browse - use the drop-down menu to view wiki contents by type (pages, attachments, labels, etc.)

  • Log in - Log in to view restricted content

• Page Functions

  Open

  

  • Edit - edit the current page

  • Add - add a new page, blog post, or attachment

  • Tools - view page history and attachments

Page Titles

• Confluence does not accept the following characters in the title of a page:

  : @ / \ | ^ # $ ; ~ [ ] { } < >

• Page titles must be unique within a space.

Spell Checking

Confluence does not have a built-in spell checker, but you can use a browser-based spell checker.

• Firefox has a built-in spell checker

• Internet Explorer requires a spell checker add-on: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/Time_Savers/ieSpell/