Moving from Confluence Data Center to Confluence Cloud? Learn what changes for you in your use of Scroll Content Manager and where to find things on Cloud.
What Changes on Confluence Cloud
If you use Scroll Content Manager on Confluence Data Center, you already know how things work on Cloud as well. The way you write, review, translate and publish documentation stays the same. What changes is mostly where you find things.
What stays the same:
-
Related pages are grouped into documents, and documents have versions, languages and variants.
-
You save versions, translate, and publish to Confluence the same way as before.
-
Pages go through the same workflows (Simple Workflow or Approval Workflow) before they are approved.
-
Your documents and pages look the same.
-
Scroll PDF, Word and HTML Exporter and Scroll Sites work with your documents as before.
What’s new on Cloud:
-
The Content Manager: The only Cloud-only feature that gives you an overview of all your documentation in one table and lets you update many pages at once with bulk actions.
-
Page toolbar: Switch versions and languages, preview variants, and export right from the page.
-
Workflow history: See status changes in the document's activity and who approved a page.
Where to find things
Confluence Cloud gives apps fixed places in the interface. Here’s where Scroll Content Manager lives now:
|
What you're looking for |
On Data Center |
On Cloud |
|---|---|---|
|
The documents in a space (Document Library) |
Scroll Content Manager link in the space sidebar |
Scroll Content Manager under Space apps in the space sidebar (below the page tree), then Documents |
|
Switching versions or languages, previewing variants, exporting and other page actions |
The Document toolbox, opened from a button at the top of the page |
The page toolbar, always visible above the page content |
|
Workflow status |
Page byline (below the page title) |
Page byline (below the page title), unchanged |
The Content Manager
The Content Manager shows your content as a table, a bit like a spreadsheet. Instead of opening pages one by one, you see them all at once, can filter them, and can update several pages in one step:
-
For a space: Open Scroll Content Manager in the space and select Content. You see all content in the space, who owns it, when it was last changed, and which pages belong to a document.
-
For a document: Open a document and select Content. You see all pages of a version with their workflow status, variants and Scroll Page Titles.
In both views you can, for example, change the owner or labels of many pages at once, or delete pages you no longer need. In a document you can also change the workflow status of several pages at once and export the list to CSV. To learn more, see Content Manager.
The page toolbar
Think of the page toolbar as the Document toolbox from Data Center, unfolded, improved and always visible. It appears above the content of every page that belongs to a document, so it also tells you at a glance whether you're in a document. From the toolbar you can:
-
Switch to the same page in another version or language.
-
Preview the page as a specific variant.
-
Export the document to PDF, Word or HTML (with Scroll Exporters installed).
-
Under More actions: set the Scroll Page Title, compare versions and view the document's activity
Integrations
Scroll Content Manager integrates with other Scroll apps for exporting and publishing documents. The table below shows which integrations are available on each environment:
|
Name |
Description |
Data Center |
Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Scroll PDF Exporter |
Export documents to PDF, Word, or HTML with custom templates. On Cloud, trigger exports directly from the page toolbar. |
Yes ✅ |
Yes ✅ |
|
Scroll Word Exporter |
Yes ✅ |
Yes ✅ |
|
|
Scroll HTML Exporter |
Yes ✅ |
Yes ✅ |
|
|
Scroll Sites (formerly Scroll Viewport) |
Use a document as a content source for your site and let visitors switch between versions, languages and variants. |
Yes ✅ |
Yes ✅ |
Still Unclear? Reach Out to Us
If something is still unclear, reach out to our support.