Scroll Content Manager: Manage Versions, Variants, and Translations of Your Content

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Navigate to the space where your documentation lives or where you’re comfortable testing the app.

ℹ️ Info: We highly recommend creating a new blank space before proceeding.

Don’t have the permission to create a new space? Choose any existing space that you may have access to.

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Next, click Scroll Content Manager the navigation bar.

Then click New document → Create from template.

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Select Product Documentation → Next.

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Add a document title, then leave the default values as is.

Click Save.

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Once the documentation is created click Working version.

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Feel free to click around the different articles to see how topics in your documentation can be created and organized in Confluence.

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You can access the Document Manager from the Document Library.

1. Navigate to the space where your documentation lives or where you’re comfortable testing the app

2. From the navigation bar click Scroll Content Manager

3. Then, click the card titled Product Documentation

ℹ️ Info: The Document Library lists all the documentation you manage with Scroll in a Confluence space.

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Now you are in the Document Manager.

Before we save a new version, we’ll first edit the Working version of the documentation.

To do so, click Working version

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Add a new article to your documentation

You are now in the Working version of your documentation. We will start by adding a new How-to article to the documentation.

1. Hover your mouse pointer over the Product Documentation page in the left navigation bar under Pages.

2. Click Create ➕to add a new page.

ℹ️ Info: Think of the Working version as the continuously progressing version of your documentation. You will use this version to prepare changes to your documentation and save a version once complete. Think of your versions as snapshots of your Working version .

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Select an out-of-the-box page template

You are now in the Confluence page editor.

1. Start by adding a page title, e.g. How to article

2. Then, in the template panel, search for and select the How-to article template.

ℹ️ Info: Confluence comes with 100s of templates out-of-the-box. You can even create your own templates.

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Add content to the article and publish it

The template comes with a pre-defined structure and some instructional text.

Feel free to edit the content and explore the editor options.

But, for now, you can can simply hit Publish.

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The new page is now created and added at the bottom of your documentation page tree.

You will also notice that an additional page titled How-to articles was automatically created. This page is called an index page and is automatically added by Confluence when you create a new page from an out-of-the-box page template.

This page lists all the pages created with the How-to article template in the Confluence space.

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Re-organize your documentation structure

You can easily restructure your documentation by dragging and dropping the articles (pages) in the left navigation bar.

1. Move the How-to articles index page next to the Release Notes page.

2. Then, move the How to article page below the How-to articles page.

🎉 Congratulations! You have successfully updated the working version of your documentation.

➡️ Next you will save a new version of your documentation.

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To save a new version, navigate back to the Document Manager by following the steps described earlier. Then, click Save version.

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In the dialog, update the following fields:

• Version: 1.0

• Description: “First version”

Then, click Save.

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Wait until you see a success message at the bottom-left of the screen saying - Version created.

🎉 Congratulations! You have successfully created the first version of your documentation, and in the process learned how to create and edit new pages, use out-of-the-box templates, and re-organize your documentation structure in Confluence.

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From the Document Manager of your document, select Settings.

This is where you can access the Variants and Translations functionality.

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Variants let you define content that is only shown under specific conditions. This is particularly helpful when you want to control the scope of content that gets published.

Learn more about creating and managing Variants here →

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Translations enable you to localize your content and deliver your document in any of the languages it has been translated into.

Learn more about creating and managing Translations here →