Server and Cloud Differences

Custom Domain

The site can be accessed through a specified custom domain.

Domain path segment

The site can be accessed at a specified path (leading slash required). For example, if you enter /my-docs the site is available at http://www.example.com/my-docs.

The Scroll site on Confluence Cloud will by default available under:
https://<set-name>.scroll.site/<path-segment-of-content-source>/

The path segment can be changed to a custom name.

Page Path Construction

A page path can be constructed in two different ways:

• Hierarchical - the hierarchy of the pages in the space are reflected in the URL, e.g.
  https://www.example.com/my-viewport/user-guide/getting-started

• Flat - all URLs are identified by the page id and the hierarchy is not reflected in the URL, e.g.
  https://www.example.com/my-viewport/getting-started-12345.html

URL Redirects

Functionality to defining permanent and temporary redirect from one URL to another.

Authentication

The site can only be accessed through a login. 

To restrict access to your site on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud you can choose from two authentication methods: access tokens and Single Sign-On.

Restrictions

Restricted pages are not accessible by anonymous users.

If the page isn't visible for the app user of Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud the page won't be picked you during the site generation process and therefor won't be published to the site. The page still can be previewed through the article preview over the byline icon.

Automated update

Content between Confluence and the Scroll site is automatically updated after e.g. editing the page or changing the theme configuration.

Manual update

Content between Confluence and the Scroll site can be manually updated.

Site issue report

The site issue report shows possible issues with the generated site, like missing attachments on pages or unsupported macros. It lists the issues along with the Confluence pages that are affected by them.

Blog posts

Blog posts get published to the site.

On Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud, blog posts can currently only be published using the dedicated blog themes (paid).

Pages

Pages do get published to the site.

All pages within a space are published to the Scroll site if they are accessible for the app user.

Attachments

Attachments of pages are published to the site.

All attachments which are part of a page are published to the Scroll site.

Detection of broken links

Scroll Sites will identify and report on any broken/dead links found within the pages you publish.

Redirect

Redirects to a defined URL if the page is entered via the Scroll site.

To set up redirects for your Scroll site on Cloud, please use the  Redirect option  in your site settings.

Meta-tag

Adds common meta tags to a Scroll site.

This feature is currently not available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

On Cloud, Scroll Sites will generate meta titles and descriptions out of your Confluence content automatically. Learn more .

Viewport Form Macros

Displays an HTML form which sends the values to a predefined email if it is submitted.

Viewport Tabs

Displays content in tabs optimized for a Scroll site.

WebHelp theme

The WebHelp theme is a default theme which can be customized by editing the code of the theme.

Help Center theme

The Help Center theme is a default theme which can be configured by editing a settings file or the option in the visual theme configurator.

In Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud you get a UI to edit the settings for the theme instead of a text file.

Custom developed themes

Themes which contain custom code.

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A custom theme option is available as part of an early access program. You can reach out to help@k15t.com if you are interested in developing a custom theme.

Download a theme

Download the theme code or configuration as a plugin JAR.

Install a theme

Upload a theme plugin JAR as a new app to make it available for Scroll Sites.

Copy/save a theme

Copy or saving a theme to reuse the configurations for other Scroll sites.

Global

Custom CSS

Customize the theme by injecting custom CSS into the theme.

Only on Cloud, you also have the option to customize the CSS with the help of Design Tokens .

Custom JS

Customize the theme by injecting custom JS into the theme.

Cookie Notice Heading

Defining a custom heading for you cookie notice.

^{Setting: cookieNotice.heading}

Portal

Categories

Group the spaces which are part of the help center into different categories and define a main category which is shown initially while the others are accessible by a dropdown item.

^{Setting on Server: portal.category.*
Setting on Cloud: Edit theme -> Templates -> Portal -> Tiles ordering}

Group into categories

Filter by categories

On Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud it's possible to group your spaces into different categories or filters. The filters will show up in your portal page but are not selectable via a dropdown menu but a filter.

Tile Size

Choose between different sizes of the tiles on your portal page.

^{Setting on Server: portal.layout
Setting on Cloud: Edit theme -> Templates -> Portal -> Tile size}

Space Home Page

Topic tile with image

Top level pages with an excerpt macro on it which contains an image, do show the image on the space home page if the topic tiles are selected as a setting.

This feature is not currently available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Topic list max items

Defining the maximum shown pages of a topic lists.

^{Setting: spaceHomePage.topicType.list.maxItems}

This feature is not available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Blog as news source

Setting the source for the news section to the blog, so that always the latest three blog posts are shown.

^{Setting: spaceHomePage.news.source}

This feature is not available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Article Page

Drilldown Page tree

Beside the accordion there is a drilldown page tree type for the navigation in the article page.

^{Setting: article.pageTreeType}

Theme-optimized display of Content by Label macro 

Content by label macro are optimized for a "related articles" section on articles.

On Server/Data Center

• By activating the article.moveContentByLabelToSidebar setting, the content by label macro is moved to the right sidebar below the table of content.

On Cloud:

• All content by label macros are displayed as a box containing a bulleted list of pages. Read more: Referencing Content – Best Practices

Search

Search filter

Filter your search results by content sources / spaces

Search is versions and variants aware

The search respects the selected version and variant if Scroll Documents is activated (and on Scroll Sites DC, additionally also Scroll Search).

Integrations

Exclude user group from Google tracking

Set a user group name to exclude those users from being tracked by Google Analytics to ensure a better tracking result.

^{Setting: integrations.google.excludedUserGroup}

Exclude version picker on specific variant

Define a standalone variant where the version picker will be hidden in the theme, if the variant is chosen. This is mostly used for variants where the variant doesn't have versions, like "cloud".

^{Setting: integrations.scrollVersions.variants.standAlone}

Scroll PDF Export

Enables a PDF export button for article pages so users can export the pages from the Help Center with a given template.

^{Setting: integrations.scrollPdfExporter}

This feature is not available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Scroll PDF Exporter

Able to start a Scroll PDF Export via a Scroll site.

This feature is not available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Scroll Documents

A Scroll site can also be created with a Scroll Document as a content source.

Scroll Sites will only display the versions and/or variants that are selected for the site. If more than one variant or version is selected, a version picker and/or variant picker is displayed in the header

Variants for Scroll Documents

A Scroll site can also be created with a Scroll Document and displays a variant picker for the variants of that document. Also the Scroll site is aware of which variants should be published to the web.

Scroll ImageMap

Allow using image maps in a Scroll site.

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Comala Document Management

The Scroll site will respect the status of the workflow state of a page.