Video: Transform Confluence Into a Fully-Featured Documentation Solution
Video: Transform Confluence Into a Fully-Featured Documentation Solution
Want to know how to transform your team’s simple Confluence workspace into a fully-featured documentation hub? All you need are the Scroll Apps for Confluence.
The Scroll Apps are a collection of Confluence apps which enable advanced documentation management and publishing functionality.
Where Confluence powers your team, Scroll Apps power your documentation.
Watch the webinar to see real-life use cases of how teams are using the Scroll Apps and Confluence together to empower and support their customers. (Jump to specific customer examples and core features via the chapters below).
Chapters:
Are you looking for a specific feature or function of the solution? Jump to that chapter in the demo:
00:00 - Intro
02:35 - About K15t and the Scroll Apps for Confluence
06:40 - Emplifi customer example and use cases: Help Center, Product Documentation, Team Collaboration
12:37 - Shinydocs customer example and use cases: Technical documentation, Help portal, Learning content, Sales and client engagement support Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence
20:52 - NAGRA customer example and use cases: Product documentation, Help center, Site authentication, Migration from Confluence Server to Cloud
28:00 - Cloud migration with the Scroll Apps for Confluence
29:40 - K15t's Help Center and a sneak peek at how we manage our own app documentation
- 31:40 - Customer showcase: Customizations, developer and API documentation with Scroll Viewport for Confluence
34:05 - Customer showcase: Versioning and translation management with Scroll Documents for Confluence
- 37:30 - Customer showcase: Atlassian partners including a Workflows approach with Scroll Viewport and Workflows for Confluence
- 39:16 - Wrap Up
- 41:00 - Q&A and survey link
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Why Invest in Customer Education?
It’s not always obvious to know how to get customers to see the value in your products or services.
A great offering is a good start. But the secret sauce is having a good customer education strategy in place.
Customer education starts before customers even know about your offerings, and continues throughout the entire customer journey. Therefore it’s crucial to communicate value early, and at every single touch point.
You can do this by ensuring the right people at the right channels are empowered with the right information to help communicate the potential of your products and services.
Even though it may not be obvious, good documentation lies at the heart of your customer education strategy. For example:
- Good marketing materials drive customers towards your products and services before they even know they need it.
- Publishing a self-service documentation hub like a help center enables customers to onboard quickly and reliably on their own.
- A knowledge base enables support teams to address customers' concerns efficiently and accurately which builds trust.
Align Your Team
Imagine the value you could deliver if everyone on your team could collaboratively create and build documentation that can then be shared with your customers across the different touch points.
To do this, you need a solution that can integrate knowledge from all the different areas, is customer-facing and also internally available.
That's where the Scroll Apps comes in.
A Single Solution for Confluence
The Scroll Apps are a documentation solution built for Confluence. The collection of apps enable you to provide advanced documentation management and publishing functionality.
Confluence forms the foundation for powerful content creation, organization and collaboration functionality. Then the Scroll Apps enable you to share your documentation by publishing it as a help center, PDF or Word files alongside advanced content management features like version, variant, and translation management.
Where Confluence powers your team, the Scroll Apps power your documentation.
Together, they enable you to create a flexible, extensible solution to empower your team and support your customer education strategy.
Publish Your Confluence Content as a Help Center
Once your team’s documentation has been written in Confluence, use Scroll Viewport to publish it as a fully customizable help center or knowledge base in a matter of minutes.
- Customize it to fit your brand and add your own custom domain.
- Restrict it to users of your choice or make it available publicly.
- Customers can quickly find the information they need with site-wide search.
- Integrate it with your help desk ticketing provider so customers can submit support tickets straight from your articles.
- Connect it with analytics tools to understand how customers interact with your content.
Manage Versions, Variants, and Translations
Using Scroll Documents, you can manage versions, and create variants (conditional content) and translations of your documentation.
Managing versions
If you need to make older versions of your documentation available online, manage versions of your documentation in Confluence using Scroll Documents, then publish the versioned content to your help center. Customers can switch between versions using the version picker on your help center.
Managing variants
If you have multiple tiers of your product – e.g. basic; standard; premium; enterprise – ensure the documentation for each tier caters to the needs of the customers who use it.
Manage conditional content at an article or paragraph level using Scroll Documents. For advanced variant management, install the extension - Variants for Scroll Documents.
Once conditional content has been published to your help center, send different customer groups to the documentation that fits their needs.
Managing translations
Managing multiple translations of your documentation in Confluence using Scroll Documents means you can cater to your ever-expanding, diverse customer base.
Use the app extension Translations for Scroll Documents to translate your documents into as many languages as you need.
Once published to your help center, you can send customers to documentation in their native language.
Export Your Content As PDF, Word, and HTML Files
In addition to publishing your documentation to an online help center, Scroll also enables you to export your documentation to offline formats like PDF, Word or HTML files using the Scroll Exporter apps.
This means that your team can deliver various offline assets to your customers, such as:
User guides
Developer manuals
Admin handbooks
Training materials
Create different templates to export Confluence content into completely customized PDF and Word files.
If you're looking to export your Confluence content in new ways, The PDF Template Library is full of templates that can be downloaded and customized to fit your needs. Templates include: technical documentation; letterheads; fact sheets and more. Check it out →
Leverage Scroll’s content management functionality to export different versions, variants and languages of your documentation.
Summary of the Scroll Solution
Scroll enhances core Confluence functionality to provide advanced documentation management and publishing functionality.
Scroll is scalable, secure and modular, which means your team can just install the apps required for the functionality you need.
Whether you’re interested in learning how Scroll can support your team with online or offline product documentation, team enablement material, or project and process documentation, see what Scroll can do for you.