Scroll Versions 4.5.0
May 2023
We’re pleased to announce the release of Scroll Versions 4.5.0, which is mainly focussed on improving the migration report and makes the app itself less error-prone by hiding some unrecommended features.
Note on the Future of Scroll Versions and Translations
With the end of Confluence Server, we are shifting our development efforts away from Scroll Versions and Translations. We will continue to maintain Scroll Versions and Translations for the foreseeable future, mainly with compatibility and security fixes.
The future of versioning and documentation on Confluence lies with Scroll Documents (and its Translations and Variants extensions), and our goal is to enable all of our Scroll Versions customers to migrate. This is why migration improvements will be our focus, in addition to maintenance. We will be investing in Scroll Documents to ensure it becomes the better solution for documentation needs on Confluence.
Migrate Scroll Page Titles (Duplicate Page Titles)
A popular feature in Scroll Versions is to have pages with duplicate page titles within the same space, by using the concept of a Scroll Page Title.
With version 4.5.0, we’ve improved our migration tool to take those Scroll Page Titles and migrate the information to the new space created with Scroll Documents.
Additionally you can now also find further information about pages with duplicate pagetitles in the migration report (see next section).
With Scroll Versions 4.5.0 we ship the migration of the Scroll Page Titles. In the next release of Scroll Documents, we’ll also support this functionality in Scroll Documents (see DOCS-232).
Once this new version of Scroll Documents is released, the Scroll Page Titles will be used if a page
is exported with one of our Scroll Exporters
is published with Scroll Viewport
is viewed in the Document Reader
Please note that we currently can’t support duplicate page titles in the Confluence UI.
Improvements to the migration report
We have also made some improvements to the migration report – which we recommend you run in your Confluence system before migrating to Scroll Documents.
The purpose of the report is to help you understand which features of Scroll Versions or Scroll Translations are used in your spaces, and how these features are supported in Scroll Documents.
The report is now providing more information about which pages that are using Page Keys and Duplicate page titles. To learn more about the report and how to use it see the following articles:
Hide unrecommended features from UI
As part of Scroll Versions 4.5.0 we decided to hide unrecommended features in spaces where those features have not yet been used.
The reason for that is either because using those features have proven to be error-prone, or it’s not yet clear how / if the features will be available in Scroll Documents, so we want to ease any future migration efforts.
If you are using any of the features listed below, don’t worry, the features are still available and you can continue using them. They are just hidden in any new space, but you can easily re-activate them globally or per space, if you want to continue using them in new spaces.
However, to be ready for any upcoming migration to Confluence Cloud or Scroll Documents, we strongly recommend to reconsider the usage of those features.
If you have any questions or uncertainties, please do not hesitate to reach out to us via help@k15t.com.
For new spaces and any spaces that are not using them, the following features have been hidden from the UI:
Publishing within the same space
The option to publish a version within the same space will no longer be available in the publishing UI.
The main reason why we’ve decided to remove this feature from the UI is that we’re not planning to support this publishing mode in Scroll Documents in the foreseeable future. Instead we recommend to not publish at all, but to use Scroll Viewport to make your versions available to your readers.
Related to that the setting “Prevent editing of pages in public view” is also hidden (as this only makes sense when publishing within the same space).
Include Library
The option to set up an Include Library to include page content from other versioned and translated spaces will also be hidden per default in the UI.
The main reason why we’ve decided to hide this feature is that we’ve realized that it is hardly used and that we’re not yet able to support the same complexity in Scroll Documents.
In a first step, we’ll focus our development efforts in improving content reuse from within the same space, so for any new spaces we recommend setting up your include library to only reuse content from within the same space.
We might be able to enhance this functionality eventually to also allow content reuse from other versioned and translated spaces in Scroll Documents, but there’s no concrete concept for supporting this in the pipeline, as we’re currently focussing on supporting more popular and common features regarding content reuse.
Scroll Roles
Per default we’re also hiding the option to set Scroll Roles in new spaces.
As Scroll Roles had implications on performance and lead to lots of confusions for many users, we already had communicated that we no longer recommend using this feature. Additionally the Scroll Roles are not migrated and conflict with Scroll Search (if you’re using Scroll Viewport).
Instead of setting up Scroll Roles, we recommend using standard Confluence permissions and restrictions.