Using External Share for Confluence app with Google Forms
Confluence is a potent tool designed for creating and sharing content within teams and organizations. Its effectiveness is further enhanced by an impressive array of macros and apps that expand its functionality. Among these is the iframe macro, which allows users to embed external content - such as web pages or forms from third-party applications - directly into Confluence pages. This feature becomes even more potent when used with the External Share for Confluence app, which fully supports the iframe macro.
SSO Verified Domains: External Share for Confluence
In this article, we are excited to introduce a new feature in the External Share for Confluence. This feature allows you to verify a domain by adding a TXT record at the DNS level, which is generated by our tool. After verifying that the record is set correctly on the domain, we are assured that the user who set up SSO also has access to the designated domain. This allows users to skip email verification when registering with Single Sign-On (SSO).
A Strategic Approach to Software Deployment with External Share for Confluence
The deployment of new software solutions in a corporate environment is often filled with challenges, especially when it involves coordination between internal teams and external partners. This was the scenario at DeltaTech, where the deployment of a project management tool needed cooperation from multiple sides. Through this blog, we explore how DeltaTech, a hypothetical company, once again utilized External Share for Confluence to turn its challenges into a success story.
Mastering the Art of Selective Sharing
Sharing made simple: exclude content with ease Hey there, fellow Confluence enthusiasts! Do you ever find yourself needing to share a Confluence page with someone outside your organization, but there’s just that one piece of sensitive information you’d rather keep under wraps? Well, fear not! Today, we’re diving into the magical world of the “exclude content macro” in the External Share for Confluence add-on. Get ready to become a selective sharing maestro!
Popular Confluence Macros That External Users Can See
Atlassian’s new public links feature lets you create a special URL directing to a safe, read-only version of a Confluence page, and share it with someone who doesn’t have a Confluence license. It’s similar to our Atlassian Marketplace app, External Share for Confluence, except its functionality and security options are much more limited. One big functionality limit with the native links feature is that you can’t share many of Atlassian’s own Confluence macros, and you can’t share *any *3rd party macros.
External Share for Confluence versus Atlassian's Guest Users Feature
Atlassian recently announced their Confluence guest users feature and people have since been asking us: what’s the difference between the built-in feature and our app, External Share for Confluence? Before we go into detail, here’s a handy comparison table, showing the differences in a nutshell. Now, let’s dive into the details… What is Atlassian’s Confluence guest users feature? With this new feature, you can have 5 free guest users per licensed user added to a specific space in your Confluence instance.
Custom Domains for Confluence and Jira: The Ultimate Workaround to End Your CLOUD-6999 Woes
The Atlassian Community has been hankering after custom domains for Confluence and Jira for absolute yonks. It’s difficult to offer continuity of service – not to mention disorienting for the customer – when you’re directing them to a website that’s not your company’s in order to view your resources and documentation. You’ve probably heard of the famous CLOUD-6999 Jira ticket. Behind it lies a tale of woe and despair. This simple request for custom domains for Atlassian Cloud products has been languishing in Atlassian’s backlog for so long it’s become a meme and sparked a range of merchandise.
With Automation, Dark Mode, Custom Domains & More, External Share is Basically A New App
Our team have added so many new features and improvements to External Share for Jira and Confluence over the past few months that what customers are getting now is effectively a brand new app. Let’s walk through some of the additions. Automated Share Management We would all rather be doing things that are valuable. Things that make us money. Admin tasks don’t make us money. They make usbored. This is why we’ve added a new Automated Share Management feature to External Share for Jira.
Controlling Who Sees Your External Share for Confluence and Jira Links
Companies have been asking us for a way of restricting which users can see theirExternal Share for Jira and Confluencelinks. Previously, you could create a secure link to your Confluence page or Jira issue and share it with a chosen person outside your instance. That link was always safe from a randomer on the internet finding it, thanks to its unguessable 16-character URL. It could be protected further by adding a password, making the page or issue inaccessible to anyone without it.
How to Customize your External Share Email Templates
After creating an External Share link to a Confluence page or Jira issue, there are two ways to share the link with a user outside of your instance: Copy the URL of the External Share version of the page or issue and paste it into an email or instant message. Click “Send via email”, which will send your External Share link to the email address you enter using an email template.
4 Ways of Sharing Confluence Content
If your organization is using Confluence, it’s likely that you’ve been asked how to share the content you’ve created. There are a lot of reasons you may want to share Confluence pages, e.g. you may need to collaborate with someone on the content, or deliver it to someone inside or outside of your organization. Understanding the different options for sharing from Confluence is essential and you’ll probably end up using a combination of them, depending what you’re doing.