FAQs

When you save your first version or add your first translation in Scroll Documents, a version location page is created to serve as the parent for all saved versions and translations of your Scroll Document.

In Confluence, it’s not possible to have multiple pages with the same title in the same space. This can cause conflicts when creating, copying, or versioning a document. This is why you are recommended to enter a prefix.

You have the choice to activate Scroll Documents for an existing page tree or create a new document with entirely new pages. Explore the features of each option in this article.

You can extend Scroll Documents feature set with the extension apps Variants - and Translations for Scroll Documents. Learn more about how these extension apps work here.

Do you have a translated Working version? In Scroll Documents, you can only save versions based on the defined author language. Therefore, we recommend to keep the Working version in the authoring language only.

Confluence requires each page within a space to have a unique title. Scroll Documents offers two ways to work around this: Version prefixes and Scroll Page Titles.

Scroll Documents includes a built-in workflow feature that enables you to add page-level workflows to your document pages, enabling you to track their progress across different versions.

When it's time to publish your documentation, you have flexible options: publish to a Viewport site, publish internally within a Confluence space, or export to PDF/Word for offline use.

Scroll Documents does not natively support branches in the traditional sense. Nonetheless, a workaround is available to help you accomplish a comparable workflow. For further details, proceed with reading this article.

Before saving a new version, make sure you have the necessary permissions: save version permissions, and view and edit permissions for all pages in the Working version.

Scroll Documents is designed for use with standard Confluence pages. Using Scroll Documents with other content types may cause unexpected behaviors.

Scroll Documents supports data residency, find the most frequently asked questions about it here.