Successful Content Editing
This week I want to alert you to a little piece of Confluence functionality that does an awful lot of work. This is the info page, which you can find under the Tools menu.
This contains a lot of data about the page, for example its history, who's been editing it, when it was edited and its position in the hierarchy.
But by far the most important element for technical writers or other engaged in collaborative documentation are the two lists of links: incoming and outgoing. See the graphics at the bottom of the blog for examples.
These are incredibly useful as they allow you to see:
This means you can see what the related pages are. You can then jump to these pages to see if the edits on Page A affect anything on Page B. If so, you can edit it straight away. So, right here, right now.
By using the Info page, you have a much better chance of making sure that all the content of all the related pages is updated because you can easily find the connections.
Of course, it still pays to do a search for related content, but using the Info page will help reduce the amount of time spent on this. It also cuts out a lot of the uncertainty we have about knowing whether we, as technical authors and collaborators, have covered all the bases.
Cheers.
This week I want to alert you to a little piece of Confluence functionality that does an awful lot of work. This is the info page, which you can find under the Tools menu.
This contains a lot of data about the page, for example its history, who's been editing it, when it was edited and its position in the hierarchy.
But by far the most important element for technical writers or other engaged in collaborative documentation are the two lists of links: incoming and outgoing. See the graphics at the bottom of the blog for examples.
These are incredibly useful as they allow you to see:
- the pages are that referencing the page you have open
- the pages the current page is linked to.
This means you can see what the related pages are. You can then jump to these pages to see if the edits on Page A affect anything on Page B. If so, you can edit it straight away. So, right here, right now.
By using the Info page, you have a much better chance of making sure that all the content of all the related pages is updated because you can easily find the connections.
Of course, it still pays to do a search for related content, but using the Info page will help reduce the amount of time spent on this. It also cuts out a lot of the uncertainty we have about knowing whether we, as technical authors and collaborators, have covered all the bases.
Cheers.
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