Server and Cloud Differences

Custom Domain

The site can be accessed through a specified custom domain.

You can connect your own domain to a Scroll site on both platforms. On Cloud, you add the domain in the site settings and confirm ownership with DNS records; the TLS certificate is issued and renewed for you.

Learn more: Connect a 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

Both options are available on Cloud, but they work differently than on Data Center.

• Hierarchical reflects the page's position in the site, for example /my-space/my-parent-page/my-child-page.

• Flat places the article directly under the content source path with a title-based slug, for example /my-space/my-page — page IDs and .html endings aren't used.

When you upgrade a Scroll Viewport site, redirects for the legacy URL patterns are created automatically, so existing links keep working.

Learn more: Customize URL Paths and How Does Scroll Sites Construct URLs?

URL Redirects

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

On Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud, redirects are managed in the site settings. Permanent and temporary redirects are supported, including redirects from the root of your domain and Advanced RegEx Redirects.

Find more details here: https://help.k15t.com/scroll-sites/manage-redirects

Redirects for legacy Viewport URL patterns are created automatically during the upgrade.

Learn more: Upgrade From Viewport Without Broken Links.

Authentication

The site can only be accessed through a login. 

To restrict access to protect your site on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud you can choose from two authentication methods:

• Token protection and

• SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)

Restrictions

Restricted pages are not accessible by anonymous users.

If a page isn't visible to the Scroll Sites app user, it isn't picked up during site generation and therefore isn't published to your site. You can still preview the article from the byline icon in Confluence.

Automated update / Live Updates

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

On Cloud, choose the live update strategy and changes made in Confluence are published to your site without any further action.

You can change the strategy at any time in the site settings.

Learn more: Update a Site

Manual update

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

On Cloud, choose the manual update strategy to collect changes and publish them yourself when you're ready. The site updates view lists what has changed in Confluence since the last publish.

Learn more: Update a Site

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.

On Cloud, Scroll Sites lists the issues found while generating your site.
Unsupported macros, missing attachments, broken links — together with the Confluence pages they affect, so you can fix them at the source.

Blog posts

Blog posts get published to the site.

On Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud, blog posts are published to your site when you use one of the blog themes: Knowledge Blog or Product Blog.

Both are available for purchase and can be trialled for free.

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.

On Cloud, broken links are reported together with the other site issues after each update, with the affected pages listed.

Redirect

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

The legacy Redirect macro isn't rendered on Cloud, and macro conversion for it is still in progress. Set up redirects in your site settings instead.

Learn more: Manage Redirects

Meta-tag

Adds common meta tags to a Scroll site.

The Meta-tag macro isn't available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

Instead, Scroll Sites generates meta titles and descriptions from your Confluence content automatically, including for translated content, and you can hide a whole site from search engines in the site settings.

Learn more: Optimizing for Search Engines (SEO) – Best Practices · Hide Site From Search Engines

Viewport Form Macros

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

The Viewport form macros aren't rendered on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud, and macro conversion for forms is still in progress.

Viewport Tabs

Displays content in tabs optimized for a Scroll site.

Viewport Tabs macros don’t render after a Cloud migration, but they can be converted.

Install the free Scroll Exporter Extensions app, then run General Configuration > Apps > Scroll Exporter Extensions Macro Conversion Tool, scoping the run to specific spaces or pages with CQL if you need to.

.Global admin permissions are required, and Confluence has to finish indexing the migrated space first — that can take minutes to hours. Full steps: How to Convert Legacy Viewport Macros in Cloud.

Scroll Sites on Confluence cloud supports and renders Confluence native tabs macro.

WebHelp theme

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

The WebHelp theme isn't available on Scroll Sites for Confluence Cloud.

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 them configurator to edit the settings for the theme instead of a text file.

Learn more: https://help.k15t.com/scroll-sites/configure-the-help-center-theme

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.

Data Center themes can't be reused as they are. 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.

Themes aren't distributed as plugin JARs on Cloud.

You choose and configure a theme inside the app, and settings are edited in the theme configurator rather than in a settings file.

Learn more: Using the Theme Configurator · Configure the Help Center Theme

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.

On Cloud, custom JavaScript is added in the theme configurator instead of a settings file.

Learn more: https://help.k15t.com/scroll-sites/inject-custom-javascript

Cookie Notice Heading

Defining a custom heading for you cookie notice.

^{Setting: cookieNotice.heading}

On Cloud, the cookie notice is configured in the theme configurator rather than with a setting key.

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/
fiter into 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}

On Cloud, set the tile size under Edit theme > Templates > Portal > Tile size.

Learn more: Configure the Help Center Theme

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.

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}

The Help Center theme on Cloud uses the accordion page tree for article navigation; a drilldown page tree isn't available.

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

On Cloud, readers can narrow search results to a single content source.

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}

Confluence user groups don't apply to a published Cloud site, so analytics tracking can't be filtered by group. Google Analytics and Matomo are both supported as analytics integrations.

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}

Hiding the version picker for a particular variant isn't available on Cloud.

Instead, select only the versions and variants you want to publish for that sit.
The picker is shown only when more than one version/variant is selected.

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.

On Cloud, add a Scroll Document as a content source and select the versions you want to publish. A version picker is shown in the header when more than one version is selected.

Learn more: Add and Remove Content Sources · Display Versioned Content

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.

Learn more: Display Conditionalized Content (Variants)

Scroll ImageMap

Allow using image maps in a Scroll site.

Scroll ImageMap is supported on Cloud sites. Existing image maps are migrated together with your content.

Comala Document Management

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

Comala Document Management workflow states aren't evaluated on Cloud sites.