How Can I Publish My Document?

When it's time to publish your documentation, you have several options to choose from:

• Scroll Viewport: Ideal for presenting content to external audiences, enabling you to present your content as a personalized help center.

• Publish within Confluence: A good option when your audience is within Confluence, as it lets your team members collaborate privately without revealing unfinished work to others.

• Export: Enables you to share, archive, or print the content offline, providing flexibility and convenience for various use cases.

Scroll Viewport

You can use Scroll Viewport to create a branded help center that anyone can access. By combining Scroll Documents and its extension apps with Scroll Viewport, you can publish different versions, variants, and/ or languages of your documentation. Users can easily switch between these versions, variants, or languages using a dedicated picker.

Advantages:

• Dedicated authoring space.

• Readers cannot access the Confluence view.

• Choose which versions, variants, or languages to make public.

• Customization and branding options.

• Make content available for readers outside your confluence system, while still have full control via authenticated access.

Limitations:

• Not all Confluence macros are supported in the Viewport view, to learn more see: Supported Macros and Features

Within Confluence

Author and manage your documentation in one Confluence space, and when a new version is ready publish it to a dedicated reader space. Your audience can then access and consume the content directly through the Confluence page tree structure in the target space.

Advantages:

• Dedicated authoring space.

• Control access to the read-only space.

• Prevent readers from accessing unfinished content.

• Keep your reader space up-to-date by publishing new versions or changes as needed.

Limitations:

• You can only publish one version, variant, and/or language from a document to the same target space.

Export Formats

You have the option to export specific versions, variants and/or languages of your content in formats like PDF, Word, or HTML using the Scroll Exporter apps.

Advantages:

• Dedicated authoring space.

• Readers cannot access the Confluence view.

• Customizable exports with templates.

• Access to Scroll Exporter macros to help modify the export behaviour.

• Automate or schedule the export using REST API.

Limitations:

• Not all Confluence macros are supported in the exports.