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  • 2.1.1 Activate your own Metropolia username at http://activation.metropolia.fi if you have not already done so.
  • 2.1.2 Go to the Confluence front page (httphttps://wiki2.metropolia.fi, spaces related to teaching and learning), https://wiki.metropolia.fi (commercial projects).
  • 2.1.3 Login to Confluence (“Log “Metropolia Log in”, right hand corner)
  • 2.1.4 Your name/image is shown in the right hand corner of the interface after which is a white an arrow. Open the menu by placing the cursor over it and clicking.
  • 2.1.5 Click “Personal Space”.
  • 2.1.6 You are now on your personal Confluence-page, where you can now begin to create material from the “Edit Profile” button. Give a title e.g. your name.
  • 2.1.7 “Save”.

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  • 2.2.1 Activate your Metropolia username at http://activation.metropolia.fi, if you have not already done so..
  • 2.2.2 Apply for the workspace to be created and request for the administrative rights from Metropolia Helpdesk.
  • 2.2.3 Wait for your workspace request to be handled. Provided that the workspace is created, a link will show up on the left hand side of the Confluence website. When the workspace has been made, you are now able to open it and start to produce content.

3. How do I create a new page?

  • 3.1 Add Create -> Blank Page
  • 3.2 Write the title into the box at the top of the page (replace “New page” with the title).
  • 3.3 Compose the text body into a box located below the toolbox (B I U etc.)
  • 3.4 Edit the content (sub-headings, links, images).
  • 3.5 Save (by pressing Save) or delete (Cancel).

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6. Other tools for page editing

6.1 Useful buttons in the bottom toolbar

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B

Bold

Paragraph

e.g. marking headings (Heading 1, Heading 2 etc.)

Table

Adding tables

Unordered list

List without numbers

Ordered list

List with numbers

Indent

Indenting

Insert

Adding images, macros and others

6.2 Other useful functions

 


Cancel

Delete.

Notify watchers

Confluence informs other users about made changes. Small changes should not be informed about – x here

Comment

Comments on the content.

Location

The location of the webpage in the search tool

Restrictions

Here you can restrict the users’ rights to read or edit text.

Labels

Sets a label to a page, e.g. language-fi (language in Finnish)

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  • 7.1.1 Go to the page that you want to delete.
  • 7.1.2 Tools -> RemoveDelete

Note! “Remove” “Delete” action moves the page and other possible attached files into the Confluence trash. These files can then be found with Google searches, but not with Confluence’s own search function. If pages and associated files should be deleted, they must be deleted separately from Confluence trash. (Browse -> Space admin -> Trash -> Purge).

Note! “Remove” “Delete” action also deletes files attached to the page.

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  • 7.2.1 Go to the page that you want to move.
  • 7.2.2 Tools -> moveMove
  • 7.2.3 Write into the “New parent page field”: the name of the directory under which the page is moved.

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  • 7.3.1 Go to the page that needs to be restored
  • 7.3.2 View changeTools -> Page history
  • 7.3.3 Choose the version that you want to restore (e.g. Version 33)
  • 7.3.4. Restore this version

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  • 8.5.1 Browse -> Space admin -> Permissions (or: Space tools -> Permissions)
  • 8.5.2 Go under the sub-heading “Groups” -> Edit permissions
  • 8.5.3 Write “role>metropolia-all>member” “role:all:member” into the space “Grant permissions to”.
  • 8.5.4 Save

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14. The effect of version updates on Metropolia Confluence

  • Confluence 5.4. 2. (January 2013November 2014)

15. Detailed Confluence instructions

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15.1 In Finnish

  • Helsinking yliopisto: Confluence-ohjeet:

http://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/support/Confluence-ohjeet

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in English

16. See also

  • Staff training for social media use.