For the third year in a row, K15t participated in Bike to Work Day, a global event that encourages a fun, healthy commute to the office and promises to add a few new regulars to our growing K15t cycling community. 

Extend what Scroll Versions and Scroll Translations can do for your team.

We're sharing a new guide for creating great documentation in Confluence using proven technical writing methods.

Working with longer content and documents can be tricky in Confluence. Scroll Documents empowers users to control versions, set workflow statuses, and effectively manage their documents in Confluence.

Using a streamlined development, test and trial setup on your local machine for Jira and Confluence Server or Data Center can quickly save you hours of waiting around.

With the size of Atlassian Summit, deciding what you're going to do during the conference can be a bit overwhelming. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your trip!

A new version of the Atlassian Confluence Editor is out. We've taken a look at the new editing experience to share how things will change in Confluence Cloud over the upcoming months.

After years of working with Confluence, we've come to value a handful of features in particular. Learn which features we find the most useful and why you should start using them, too.

It's essential to think about which software users should be given which type of permissions. After years of configuring Jira projects, we've collected the most valuable tips when it comes to defining permissions in Jira.

Git is the most popular version control system for collaborative software development. How is it doing right now and how will it develop in the future?

What happened to the old K15t design? CEO Stefan tells the story beyond the change from his personal perspective.

Ready to amplify your documentation experience? Here's some inspiration as you make your technical writing New Year's resolutions.

Check out the big changes in the technical writing industry and discover brand new solutions for better teamwork

How do I combine technology and teamwork in a meaningful way? Our very first TeamTalk held in our office in Stuttgart exposed thought provoking answers to this and other questions.

Working with Jira is always a good idea, but deciding which version of the tool is the one for your use case can be tricky. To help, we've summarized all the different features for you to figure out which Jira solution works for your team.

The way we work is changing in almost every profession. But what does the future hold for the techcomm community? Read about the challenges the industry is facing and how a new focus on collaboration will change technical documentation for good.

Collaborate across Jira borders, even under the most restrictive conditions. Remote Licensing for Backbone removes the need for your partners to install the app on their Jira, allowing the collaboration to start immediately.

PDF continues to be the go-to format for organizations to share and distribute business documents, so it's essential that Confluence provide a quick and customizable PDF export option. See how Scroll PDF Exporter measures up against Confluence's native PDF export functionality.

Scroll Versions 3.11 introduces content reuse across versioned or translated spaces. Learn about the new Include Library and how to benefit from the updated Include+ macro.

Content reuse helps technical writers create high quality documentation faster and facilitates updates and translation of content. Learn why you need a content reuse strategy and how to get started using tools that Confluence offers out of the box.

Ever wondered how to manage content that's really too long for a single Confluence page? Breaking it up brings big benefits for authors, content managers, and readers alike.

Each year, the K15t team goes on an adventure known as the Company Outing. This time around, we hiked, tobogganed, and swam our way through the Black Forest, enjoying the sites along the way. Read all about what the team got up to.

Scroll PDF Exporter 4.4 introduces fresh styling and navigation functionality to give users new options for exporting their Confluence content as professionally-styled PDFs.

The K15t Hacketse always promises to produce some awesome projects – and occasionally a surprise or two. Read on for a recap of our latest Hacketse, everyone's favorite K15t event.

We're gearing up for Atlassian Summit Barcelona and want to help you prep for Atlassian's biggest event of the year. Here's how to amplify your Summit experience – from session highlights and must-see keynotes, to Atlas Camp, and a few exciting surprises of our own!

Scroll ImageMap brings Confluence images to life, by adding clickable link areas and mouseover tooltips that engage and inform, making them a powerful way to visually communicate information. We've recently been focusing on further improving the app's usability to make adding interactivity to Confluence images even simpler.

A crash course in how to export Confluence pages as beautiful, professionally-formatted PDF documents with full styling flexibility and administrative control.

Scroll PDF Exporter 4.2 introduces fresh styling and administrative features focused on giving users more control over their Confluence exports.

Jira workflows are flexible enough for the vast majority of scenarios, but occasionally, they just can't do what you need. However, Jira issue synchronization can extend workflows to cover even more use cases – find out how.

What do you get when you combine 27 participants, 10 creative ideas, 24 hours, and a kitchen full of pizza? A K15t Hacketse of course!

K15t Software co-founder and CEO, Stefan Kleineikenscheidt, tells his personal story of growing a career in IT, being inspired by new ideas and technology, meeting co-founder Tobias Anstett, and founding K15t Software.

Context-sensitive help offers users the help content they need, when and where they need it – and Confluence is the perfect platform for managing it.

The openness of Jira is a strength, but limiting transparency between partners is tricky. See how to solve this by synchronizing Jira data across projects.

From ShipIt Live victory all the way to the Atlassian Marketplace, we share the valuable lessons learned as we sunset Conversations for Confluence.

The term 'data driven' is thrown into just about every best practice process one hears about these days. Thankfully it's more than just meaningless buzz – but what does it mean when applied to a self service portal such as a help center website? How does one decide what self service analytics to look at, and what conclusions to draw?

Scroll PDF Exporter has gotten some big improvements of late. With full styling control, custom fonts, and even a Comala Workflows integration, now every user can turn Confluence content into beautiful PDFs.

Scroll Document Versions has been relaunched as Scroll Documents for Confluence Cloud, adding powerful new functionality for multi-page document management.

Backbone Issue Sync for Jira, the leading Atlassian Marketplace app dedicated to Jira to Jira synchronization, now supports Cloud to Cloud integrations natively. This means that Jira Cloud users can now take advantage of the app's intuitive setup and robust synchronization flexibility to synchronize issue data.

Tekom/TCWorld, the world's largest technical communication conference, wrapped up last week. Our resident tech writer Tom highlights a few points of interest.

Does your text editor help you track, review, revise, and make your business letters look professional? Confluence can. 

Add-on Discovery Day 2017 gave an engaging look at what can be accomplished by extending the core Atlassian tools. If you missed it or want to share the day's presentations from K15t Software, look no further.

Write the Docs Prague 2017 is a three-day conference where some of the brightest minds in techcomm get together and discuss the field's hottest topics. I picked up a bunch of handy tips at the event – here are some personal highlights.

It's the final sprint of our preparation for the big show: Atlassian Summit US September 12th–14th. Summit always showcases the newest trends and technology in the ever growing world of Atlassian-powered teamwork, and this year will be no exception. 

As Content Marketing Manager, documenting how our publishing process works is part of the job. This also includes writing instructions on how to use content tools in their context. I recently stumbled across a quick and easy solution to accomplish the creation of these instructions in Confluence – StepShot for Confluence. To save you some trouble next time you take on such a task, I thought I'd share my experience in using this tool.

There is no substitute for face-to-face discussion, not even with collaborative editing in Confluence. But what if we could combine the two?

Want to manage various kinds of documents in one Confluence space? As their histories and structures change you'll need a simple way to keep track. Scroll Document Versions, new for Confluence Cloud, makes it easy.

We have held ten hackathons over a period of three years, and until last week, we've never had two winners.

Davin recently kicked off K15t's first official Bike to Work Day. We'll talk a little bit about why and how.

Most editorial calendar tools only report on analytic parameters – distribution channels, due dates, etc. But content creators should consider using synergetic tools which will also allow them to manage the creative side of an editorial calendar. Here's how we do it.

Much has been written about the habits of effective and successful teams. Very few articles actually talk about how to develop them. This blog post aims to fill that gap.

In this post, I'll share five techniques our teams here at K15t have adopted to align the efforts of tech writers and marketers in support of one another. Together they constitute a light and fast approach to making changes that aren't big, difficult, or complicated. They're about teaching your old docs new tricks.

Tuesday's technical documentation conference in Munich featured many interesting topics – such as digitalization, connectivity, and creative writing – but two technologies really took center stage: virtual and augmented reality. Will they change the techcomm industry?

Why is Confluence our tool of choice when it comes to documenting UX design concepts and why should you use it? The answer: collaboration, flexibility and a single source of truth.

Nowadays, translators use software to make their daily work easier and it's quickly becoming obvious that a standardized file format is needed. XLIFF is an odds-on favorite for making translation files universally practical.

Some of our team members recently took advantage of K15t Software's Pledge 1% partnership to spend a sunny afternoon cleaning up Stuttgart's forest trails.

Writing high-quality content (no matter what type) is extremely difficult, but using automated content optimization can definitely help you tackle this challenge. I'd even go so far as to claim that optimization tools are part of a great writing process. Why? Read on to find out.

Confluence is a leader in the content collaboration tool space, allowing entire organizations to access and contribute to information within a single centralized knowledge hub. Sometimes however, Confluence users need to export this documented knowledge as PDFs to fulfill business requirements. Here are four important factors to consider before choosing a Confluence PDF exporter.

A few photos and thoughts from a packed marathon week at the first-ever Atlassian Summit Europe – see what stood out for us in Barcelona.

No one knows what the future of technical writing looks like. You can however get a pretty good idea if you have a look at the characteristics and philosophies of the people who are newly entering the profession. As a teacher of technical writers, I get to see generation Y in action all the time and perhaps my observations about their ideas and reactions to different editorial systems are an indicator of what is to come.

Right in time for the kickoff of the first Atlassian Summit Europe, we're releasing a major user experience overhaul of one of the Marketplace's best selling add-ons: Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence Server. Now, everyone can quickly and easily create templates to export Confluence content as richly-styled PDFs. Credit goes to the new visual template editor in Scroll PDF Exporter 4.0, with a real-time preview and fine-grained control over the styling and export properties of Confluence-based PDF documents.

As the technical lead in charge of Backbone's JIRA Data Center compatibility implementation, Matthias would like to take you behind the scenes and share how he solved some tricky development challenges.

The time of wikis' widespread popularity are long gone. And yet, the enterprise wiki Atlassian Confluence is more popular than ever. Our guest author found six reasons why this isn't a contradiction and may have unearthed the secret recipe behind Confluence's trend-bucking success.

We started using HipChat a few years ago and it has been working like a charm – no wonder chat apps are experiencing tremendous growth. While live chat helps us keep up, it can also be a source of constant distraction – detrimental when you need to get things done.

Tekom OpenLab 2017 – a one-day 'unconference' where techcomm enthusiasts meet to discuss the industry's hottest topics. And because sharing is caring, I'm excited to share some pointers I picked up in this short summary.

Between the massive Summit conference, and the AtlasCamp developer event that directly follows, nearly 20 of us will make the journey from Germany with big product release news and even some secret 'skunkworks' products to demo on May 2nd–5th.

If you're a Confluence user you have probably tried to create a template for blog posts. Unfortunately, Confluence doesn't support them. Don't worry though, I came up with a solution that everyone can implement.

Teams working on large-scale projects that span across departments and B2B borders need tools that enable everyone to be on the same page at the same time. With its latest release, Backbone Issue Sync 3.2 is now compatible with JIRA Data Center providing the uninterrupted stability and data synchronization enterprises need to ensure their teams keep moving forward.

The gap between technical communicators and content marketers can be a daunting one, but the benefits realized by building the bridge makes it well worth the effort.

Giving images in a collaboration platform new life with interactivity can help all kinds of teams work better together – and we have three examples that prove it right here in our own office using Confluence and the Scroll ImageMap add-on.

The latest K15t hackathon just wrapped, boasting 22 participants and ten projects. With a time constraint of 24 hours, every team worked hard to get their great ideas shipped out the door. Here's a look at the three highest voted projects.

Employee handbooks are a valuable resource for employees and employers alike. That's why it's important to make them accessible and keep them up-to-date. I have administered quite a few employee handbooks throughout my career, and this post explores the differences between the Microsoft Word-based approach I used in the past and my current, Confluence-based approach to writing employee handbooks.

An employee handbook is an important business document. There are many reasons for having one and at least as many articles on the web that discuss them. So, instead of reiterating arguments others have already made, I'd like to discuss how an employee handbook can help build company culture.

Techcomm and content teams often have a dysfunctional relationship even though they have the potential to be more effective at achieving their goals by understanding and working together. In the first part of this four-part blog series I will explore the reasons for the gap between techcomm and content marketing teams.

Nov. 28, 2017 Update: Today Backbone Issue Sync for Jira has added native support for cloud-to-cloud data synchronization. This now makes the workaround described in this blog post unnecessary. Happy collaborating!

There are lots of blog posts that talk about why and how companies host hackathons. This is not one of those. This blog post provides a practical guide and checklist that helped me organize our upcoming hackathon. To help out all those other hackathon-organizers out there, I thought I'd share my experience and checklist.

In most cases, IT support teams utilize one JIRA Service Desk instance to manage multiple service desks. This method works perfectly most of the time – but not always.

K15t Software regularly stages hackathons, which I participate in. But how do you go about a hackathon project? What do you start with? How do you decide what you can and cannot achieve? I will answer these questions by guiding you through my own hackathon project.

The point of providing IT support is to make your customers' lives as easy as possible. However, for key account customers who need extensive help from your support team, creating lots of tickets in your ITSM instead of their system is a pain point. Time for a solution.

There are multiple tools that export Confluence pages to Word. I examined how Confluence's built-in exporter compares to the Scroll Word Exporter app. There are four major differences.

Sharing passwords with team members can compromise company security. Unfortunately, many teams have to. In this article, I want to demonstrate how the K15t team manages and shares passwords without compromising security.

Matt Reiner, content strategist at NimbleUser, explains why he championed the transition from writing technical documentation in DITA to writing with Confluence and Scroll Versions in this guest blog post.

It’s an age-old question: how can 1st-level support teams using JIRA Service Desk and 2nd-level tech support teams using a seperate JIRA instance communicate more efficiently? Backbone 3.1 aims to do exactly that so that you can concentrate on what really matters: solving customers tickets.

Do you use WordPress to run your blog or website? If so you'll wish you had known about this years ago... I certainly did.

In Nov 2016, we asked our TC World Conference booth visitors how they think technical editorial departments and bordering departments work together. Who works together with whom and what is especially important to those involved?

Delivering UI design specifications to developers can be painful. Read on to find out how I improved this process using Sketch, Jira tickets and a new add-on called Inspector Sketch.

At the end of a successful year, we want to thank you for collaborating with us by sharing a little bit of cheer: K15t Software is proud to present you with a free sticker pack for iMessage and Telegram featuring our rocketcorn mascot. Happy Holidays!

Updated March 1, 2017: K15t Software is proud to announce the release of Scroll Versions 3.4 and  Scroll Translations 3.4 . Both add-ons are now compatible with Confluence 6.

Scroll ImageMap 2.0 introduces lots of UX changes over the old ImageMap Macro for Confluence. Click on to see first-hand what's new.

Last week, we hosted our final 24-hour 'Hacketse' hackathon of 2016 – with a bigger and stronger range of competitors than ever before. Check out our wrap-up, and find out who lifted the winners' trophy this time around.

Last week, we held our fourth Dev Together meet-up, where we learned about how the Atlassian JIRA team balances complexity and power in its software. The talk was given by Dave Meyer, one of Atlassian's Senior Product Managers, who we welcomed all the way from Australia.

Backbone Issue Sync 3.0 for JIRA is now live on the Atlassian Marketplace. This new release supports firewall-friendly distributed integrations, which save you time and trouble when configuring project synchronizations between firewall-protected JIRA instances.

Scroll Versions 3.3 for Confluence is live now on the Atlassian Marketplace. This major release of the popular version and variant management add-on features advanced Comala Workflows integration – letting you leverage powerful workflows to achieve great results even in complex versioned content projects.

Join us for the fourth Dev Together meetup at our Stuttgart HQ, where we'll welcome Atlassian's Dave Meyer all the way from Sydney, Australia.

Just announced: Scroll Acrolinx Connector demo – with support from Acrolinx – at the K15t Software booth at tekom/tcworld 2016. It's one of many ways you're invited to connect with us at the conference.

K15t Software will have a big presence at tekom/tcworld once again – and this time we're announcing a groundbreaking new solution that lets teams doc better together. We'd love to meet you at our booth if you're headed to the show.

Atlassian Summit is underway. If you couldn't make it or want another perspective, delve into our impressions of Atlassian Summit 2016. Each Summit Day started with a Keynote. Topics: Innovation in Team Collaboration & The Future of Teamwork in a Service-First World htt…

 IT requires creative, communicative and flexible people. So why are there so few women working in IT? Join us for a documentary screening on Oct 26th, 2016 to find out.

Backbone Issue Sync 2.3 from K15t is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace. This latest release features the new Suggestions tool, which makes configuring cross-border JIRA synchronization even quicker and more intuitive – letting your team work rapidly and with confidence.

This story is about a young man's volunteer experience – it explores why giving can also mean receiving. Taking time to do good for others is something the K15t team strongly believes in, and we're proud to have been a small part of this story.

Atlassian Summit 2016 is only a few short weeks away, and this year K15t is stepping up as a proud platinum sponsor of the biggest event of the year for the Atlassian ecosystem.

K15t proudly introduces Scroll ImageMap 2.0, a handy add-on that brings Confluence images to life with multiple clickable link areas and mouseover tooltip regions. With its intuitive graphic editor, ImageMap makes it easy to define circles, rectangles, or complex polygons as clickable regions, and make your Confluence images an engaging, informative experience.

A few weeks ago, we had our seventh 24-hour Hacketse hackathon – once again, we brainstormed, developed, and realized some fantastic ideas.

For many companies – including Nintendo, BMW, Moody's, Lufthansa, and Red Bull just to name a few – Atlassian Confluence is the platform of choice for documentation. Yet while this wiki-based approach to technical content is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds, there are still plenty of misconceptions floating around on the web about tech doc wikis.

Summer is in full swing here in Germany – and while beer garden visits are a lot more fun when it's warm in the evening, the K15t team is still hard at work building great collaboration software every day.

The best translation and language management add-on for Atlassian Confluence has new functionality: Scroll Translations 3.2 is live on the Atlassian Marketplace – upgrade your version now or try it out for free.

Every day, the staff at K15t work hard together as a team, and that sense of camaraderie and teamwork doesn't end at the office doors. On Friday, June 10th, the K15t Software office was closed as we all piled into a bus and headed for the German Alps once again.

There is a distinct lack of women and minorities in the tech industry in general, and in computer science in particular. What are the reasons behind this gap?

Im Durchschnitt vergeudet ein Mitarbeiter 60 % des Tages mit unnötigen Aufgaben, ineffizienten Meetings und der Bearbeitung hunderter E-Mails. Dies belastet die Produktivität enorm. Es ist höchste Zeit für eine Veränderung.

Are you Backbone-curious? Missed out on previous webinars perhaps? Let's shed some light: get an up-close-and-personal look at Backbone Issue Sync direct from the lead developers on the project on June 15th.

The Scroll Add-ons for Atlassian Confluence power painless content collaboration, and in many organizations that means taking the DocOps approach for technical communication. Check out some fresh news on how several companies are using Scroll Add-ons to do their documentation the agile way.

Backbone Issue Sync 2.1 is live, making server-to-cloud JIRA issue synchronization possible for the first time.

AtlasCamp is just a few short days away, and we've got some big news. Here's what brings us to Barcelona this year.

Don't miss out on the finale of K15t's whirlwind USA speaking tour – join us at Medidata HQ on May 18th for our first-ever event in New York City.

Bridge the information gap and collaborate on projects across departmental and B2B borders – Backbone Issue Sync for JIRA is available now in the Atlassian Marketplace.

Join our own Tobias and Nils as they bring two great stories to life for US audiences from coast to coast! Each event will have food, drinks, and one or two very special talks. Come out to learn how Atlassian's team does documentation, and how your own teams can sync JI…

Development of our upcoming JIRA synchronization add-on, Backbone, is in the home stretch. We think it's the perfect time to reveal a bit of the configuration UI and explain what it can do. Take a look below at four of the config UI's screens, and gain insight into some of Backbone's core JIRA syncing functionality.

PDF anzeigen Erhöhen Sie die Zufriedenheit Ihrer Kunden Klicken Sie hier und lernen Sie alles über JIRA Service Desk am 7. April in Frankfurt. https://www.k15t.com/events/jira-service-desk-tour-frankfurt…

Our first 24-hour hackathon of 2016 took place on March 10 and 11, and great things were made – quickly. Check out our wrap-up, and find out who was on the winners' podium this time around.

Hackathons have always been important to us here at K15t. In the old days they were held informally – more like greatly-accelerated sprints in order to get some very important things done in a very short amount of time. These evolved over the years into formal 24-hour h…

Managing controlled documents such as software specifications, plans, or collaboratively-edited contracts isn’t easy at the best of times. And it’s harder yet if multiple stakeholders from different organizations are involved: project managers, engineers, QA, legal etc. Thankfully, there is a better way. . .

The K15t Software crew had a lot of beer-flavored fun this week, with a tour and tasting at Stuttgart's own Dinkelacker Brewery https://www.familienbrauerei-dinkelacker.de/. Despite being the biggest brewery in the region and having a fully-modern and high-tech producti…

Despite the title, this blog post isn't actually about acronyms. It's a brief wrap-up of the Atlassian User Group (AUG) in Hamburg (HH), where I gave a presentation about Backbone – Issue Sync for JIRA (BAC is our internal handle). It was the first AUG meetup in Hamburg…

Welcome to the final part of our look at what's new in Scroll Versions 3.0: features to dramatically enhance your publishing capability.

Scroll Versions 3.0 is live in the Atlassian Marketplace, and it boasts a range of new features and functionality. Today, we'll examine some features that give you unprecedented control over your content management: version-based editing permissions, modular configuration. . .

Our most popular exporters just got a flexibility upgrade, allowing the exporting of Confluence content in two new ways: task list export in all Scroll Exporters, and table cell highlighting in Office. 

K15t Software's fifth Atlassian-rules 24-hour hackathon happened just before the holidays in 2015, and the dust has finally settled enough for us to tell the tale.

With 4,200 participants from 48 countries, the tekom Jahrestagung (TCWorld Conference) is at the forefront of technical communication, and we're blessed to have it right in our home city of Stuttgart, Germany.

A big thank-you goes out to all who joined us for the Scroll Versions 3.0 webinar. A complete video and all of the submitted questions and answers can be found below. Feedback, Please Please take a moment to answer five questions (or fewer) about the webinar to help us …

On Thursday, November 26, we hosted the tekom RG here at the K15t Software office in Stuttgart. Many thanks to everyone who joined us, especially our two presenters: Mr. Lars Iffland of GIP http://www.gipmbh.de/ and our very own Tobias Anstett. You can watch both presen…

Available now in the Atlassian Marketplace We're proud to announce Scroll Versions 3.0, a major release of the best version management tool in the Confluence Ecosystem. This release delivers a range of new features and enhanced functionality to take your version managem…

Atlassian Summit Survey Results Are In It's no secret that Confluence is a powerful platform for documentation collaboration. At Atlassian Summit 2015 https://summit.atlassian.com/ we asked visitors to the K15t Software booth to help us shed some light on the ways that …

Great to See You Once Again in Stuttgart We may be just a bit biased, but we think Stuttgart is the perfect location for the annual tekom/tcworld Conference http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld15/tcworld15/. Last week we took great pleasure in meeting hundreds of new fac…

An exciting and exhausting Atlassian Summit 2015 https://summit.atlassian.com/ is now in the books, and with much fanfare it outlined how the company is working to make teams smarter, better, faster, and stronger. It was of course packed with product announcements, but …

Is your strategy for the tekom/tcworld Conference dialed in and ready to roll? Since tekom is the world’s largest technical communication summit, qualification event, and trade fair, your plan is worth a bit of thought. And as you’ll soon learn, the event has several tr…

We're just a few weeks away from Atlassian Summit 2015 http://summit.atlassian.com/, and this year K15t Software is bringing new product news, demos, and lots of friendly faces with us from Stuttgart to the Big Powwow by the Bay.  With the staggering growth of Atlassian…

Last Wednesday we threw open the K15t doors to friends, family, partners, and customers to help us warm our new office https://twitter.com/search?q=k15twarming in Stuttgart, and it was a grand time if we do say so ourselves. Check out some scenes from the event after …

“No one reads documentation, and nobody gives feedback on it.” This phrase is bad news for technical communicators – but it’s not the whole story. What actually happens in reality hinges on the way we manage and distribute technical content. (Protip: Host it on the web …

  K15t Software has grown once again, and to keep us all from elbowing one another we had to make a change. With a bit of work we have found an amazing new space in Stuttgart East and have made our move. The paint is dry, the espresso is flowing, and the time has finall…

We've now had a week to reflect on our K15t Out-of-Office Adventure, and the unanimous verdict is in: We can't wait to start planning the next one!   This annual trip-taking tradition starts with a company-wide vote for an ideal location—far away from desks and chairs—w…

For a long time, technical writing was like driving down a one-way street. We’ve sent information into one direction, and nothing came back. But since the age of the Web 2.0, this approach is no longer a best practice. Today, being a technical writer means to communicat…

Last week we had the third Dev Together event at K15t Software. It was a great opportunity for us to bring together Atlassian users, customers & friends to our new office situated in the lovely East End of Stuttgart. By the way: We are nevertheless planning to make an …

.We would like to invite you the next installment of our Dev Together event series on June 16th, 2015 at 18:00 at our new office in Ostendstr. 110, Stuttgart. This time Dave Meyer of Atlassian and Thomas Büschgens of W&W Informatik GmbH will talk about how they use JIRA…

 Oops, we did it again – and we love it: Creating awesome stuff within 24 hours. Some of us were coding almost the whole night to make our ideas come to life. Here's how we spent our third, Atlassian-rules https://www.atlassian.com/company/about/shipit hackathon that to…

Today, I'd like to share with you a little secret about Scroll Translations. It’s the Confluence add-on which lets you manage Confluence content in multiple languages within a single space. This makes it simple to add page translations. But how about page templates and …

The Scroll Viewport 2.1 release is dedicated to all the viewport theme developers out there! Creating and editing viewport themes is now easier than ever (forget FTP!). Here are six reasons why you folks (not only theme developers!) should embrace Scroll Viewport 2.1 – …

Today, we’re going to settle the question once and for all – which is superior? Documentation in a plain-text editor using Markdown, or creating content in a rich-text editor the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) way? How will it be decided, you ask? A good, clean …

Bringing people together in a collaboration platform like Atlassian Confluence also means transferring your legacy content from multiple information silos. These repositories often contain important information that you can’t afford to leave by the wayside when building…

What would you call the image on the right? A ‘drop-down list’? A ‘pull-down’ or ‘select list’? A ‘drop-box’? I recently discussed this very issue with one of our Atlassian Expert consultants. It seems everyone – from customers to consultants, developers and tech writer…

A king would never walk to the library if he wanted to consult a book. Rather than climbing down from his throne, he’d tell one of his servants to find the desired volume and bring it to him, wherever it may be. Today, all users are treated like royalty in the sense tha…

The inline comments functionality allows users to review Confluence pages line by line and add comments on selected words, phrases, or entire paragraphs. Once you've added your feedback, you can resolve comments simply by clicking 'Resolve'.

When we first released Scroll Viewport on the Atlassian Marketplace in 2013, we claimed it was the best way to publish from Confluence to the web. Since then, we’ve learned a great deal from numerous website projects – and as a result, we’ve reconsidered the whole conce…

When creating and updating documentation, it is often necessary to search for and replace text fragments. If, for example, a product name changes, authors need to update every single occurrence within their documentation. What if there was a way to automate this process…

In medieval times, merchants used an Exchequer table to perform calculations for taxes and goods – and tables have been considered the best way to compile and compare data ever since. Tables can display large volumes of structured information in a highly compact and log…

On December 16, James Turcotte, SVP, Business Unit Executive of CA Technologies, gave a presentation on how Computer Associates keeps product documentation updated and improves turn-over time. In this presentation, James coined the term DocOps, describing it as the sibl…

At our second ShipIt day, we didn't have a winner team, but we've got two. One of the winning projects was our 3D object viewer for Confluence.   In this blogpost, let me introduce our ShipIt project that brings Confluence into the three-dimensional world. In addition, …

In our recent survey, we asked technical writers at the tcworld Conference how they manage documentation content, and how they collaborate with other communicators, developers, and experts.   Here are the results – and some of them might surprise you. Spot Check at the …

We’re delighted to introduce you to the latest member of the Scroll add-ons https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/7016 family. Meet our all-new Scroll CHM Exporter for Confluence.   Let’s get to know this helpful new add-on a little better. Scroll CHM Exporter Visit…

The latest release of our content management add-on for Confluence enables you to publish content to remote Confluence systems. What’s more, it enhances workflow support when making content available to a new or existing Confluence space. Scroll Remote Publishing Endpoi…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s 30th weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists – sharing 150+ links.   This week's top story from the Atlassian Developers blog: “A New Viewport in Confluence” A New View…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from the HipChat blog: “How to Use HipChat to Collaborate and Build Culture” How to Use HipChat to Coll…

tcworld Conference 2014, the world's largest technical communication conference and fair, is over! Now it's time to say 'Thank you' to all who visited us at our booth, and to have a look back on three exciting days in Stuttgart, Germany – full of insightful discussions,…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from Kelly McDaniel in the Pro Austin Writer blog: “Immigration to Confluence”. Immigration to Confluen…

Last week, we held a developer event here at the K15t Software office. It was a wonderful evening with our customers and friends enjoying pizza, drinks, and expert talks from Atlassian.   Here are the presentation slides and video recordings. Dev Together On October 30t…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Valiantys blog: "Spreadsheets for Confluence 1.0: Filtering, Sorting, and Excel Import" Spreadsh…

Last friday, our office was closed for a special reason: We were out on this year's K15t Software team event, and we had a great time together at the beautiful Allgäu area near Oberstdorf, located in the German Alps. Get some impressions of this awesome two-day trip. On…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from Antti Hietala: "The Incredible Editable Screenshot" The Incredible Editable Screenshot Screenshots…

This year, the world's largest annual technical communication conference and fair will take place in Stuttgart, Germany – the hometown of K15t Software! Sure thing that we'll have a booth where you can meet us and learn about new and improved Scroll add-ons for Confluen…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from our blog: "Export Beautiful Code Examples from Confluence to PDF" Export Beautiful Code Examples f…

We're happy to announce that Scroll PDF Exporter now supports syntax highlighting for code examples. It had been our top-voted feature, and it was a bit tricky to implement, but now exporting code examples should work for everyone just right. Code Block Macro in Conflue…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story is from the Atlassian Summit Video Archive. Atlassian Summit 2014 Video Archive Videos and slides of al…

Is it possible to have the built-in PDF export option and the Scroll PDF Exporter link available simultaneously in Confluence's Tools menu? Yes, it's actually quite easy to provide both PDF export methods. Learn how in this pro tip. Using Scroll PDF Exporter and the Con…

You are very welcome to visit the K15t Software office on October 30th, 2014. We're happy to present talks from Joseph Clark and Sarah Goff-Dupont of Atlassian. Join us for a few drinks – and get a productivity boost. The life of a feature: best practices for shipping q…

When using Atlassian Confluence collaboratively to write and manage documentation, you will soon find that your content refers to multiple product/documentation versions within one or several spaces. Confluence’s built-in versioning functionality is a great way to track…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from the Atlassian blogs: "Answers, Meet Questions" Answers, Meet Questions Atlassian Answers, the self…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Scott Abel and his suggestions on books, every content strategist should read. What Books Should Eve…

Two weeks ago during the Atlassian Summit 2014 in San Jose, we announced that Atlassian technical writers are using Scroll Versions for their product documentation (read full customer story https://www.k15t.com/blog/2014/09/customer-story-k15t-helps-atlassian-technical-…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from Hanna Korhonen in the NorthPatrol blog: "Confluence Challenges SharePoint as an Intranet Platform"…

We had a wonderful time at the Atlassian Summit 2014 in San Jose. It was the largest Atlassian event ever held – and it exceeded all our expectations. The summit united Atlassian customers, experts and add-on developers for Confluence, JIRA and other Atlassian products …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from the Atlassian Summit 2014: "K15t Software Helps Atlassian Technical Writers Keep Pace with Agile D…

We're proud to announce that Atlassian uses Scroll Versions for managing their product documentation. Learn how K15t Software and our Confluence add-on Scroll Versions helps Atlassian technical writers keep pace with agile development teams.  About Atlassian Atlassian p…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story is from the Atlassian blogs: "Atlassian University is free!" Atlassian University is free! All step-by-…

Here are seven common mistakes made by organizations using Confluence for collaborative knowledge management and documentation – and how to avoid them. The following list applies to Confluence – Atlassian’s collaboration platform and enterprise wiki – but may be relevan…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story is a microsite from Dozuki: "Tech Writing Handbook" Tech Writing Handbook This amazing microsite from D…

Is there a quick, easy, and reliable way to migrate a Scroll PDF Exporter template between systems? In this blog post, I'll introduce a very useful feature for migrating PDF templates between Confluence instances – from a Confluence development system to the production …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story is an infographic from Econsultancy.com http://Econsultancy.com: "The Periodic Table of Content Marketi…

K15t Software will be attending this year’s Atlassian Summit in San Jose. Join us in the Golden State for updates on our Scroll add-ons, and the latest developments from across the Atlassian ecosystem. The annual Atlassian Summit https://summit.atlassian.com/  unites At…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from the Valiantys blog: "Scroll Office: Author in Confluence, add styles in Word" Scroll Office: Autho…

How can I set up a Confluence space for modular technical documentation? Can I manage multiple versions of documentation in Confluence? Is there a way to add approval workflows, or to use the platform as a high-performance content management solution for my website? If …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists.   This week's top story from Atlassian: "Confluence Tip of the Month: Shares Vs. @Mentions" Confluence Tip of the Month: Shares…

Are you receiving the same questions over and over again? If so, it’s time to give your users and customers what they need – a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. In this blog post, you’ll find some tips and examples that will help you create and manage your very own…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, content strategists, and software developers.   This week's top story from K15t Software: "That's Git! – Impressions From Our K15t Expert Talks (Video)"…

My day-to-day work here at K15t Software involves regular contact with users of our Scroll Content Management add-ons. I provide troubleshooting tips and workarounds tailored to their use cases. However, sometimes the tables are turned – and it’s the customers who give …

Last week, the K15t Office was crowded more than usual. We had invited you for a free introduction to Git and its toolchain integration and to have a nice evening with us.   See the presentation slides as well as some photo impressions of that awesome event, and videos…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, content strategists, and software developers.   This week's top story from Tobias Anstett: "Build Amazing Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA and Confluence" Bui…

When it comes to finding an authoring and single-source publishing environment, often Wiki-based documentation (e.g. with Atlassian Confluence) and structured XML authoring (usually with DITA) are compared.   This blogpost outlines the different use cases of wiki-based …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Tobias Anstett: "K15t Software is Now a Recognized Atlassian Platinum Expert" K15t Software is Now a…

When we launched K15t Software back in 2009, our vision was to become a kick-ass software company developing great add-ons for content management – and from what we hear from our customers and partners, we've succeeded. As Atlassian Experts, we also help enterprises to …

Did you know that K15t's Scroll Exporters for Confluence are not only convenient for human users, but also for machines and for continuous integration? This blogpost explains how to automatically obtain the latest PDF export files, Word documents, or any other supported…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Atlassian, the makers of Confluence and JIRA: "Introducing New Atlassian Enterprise Offerings" Intro…

We invite you to come to the K15t Software office on July 24th, 2014. Get a free introduction to Git and its toolchain integration and have a nice evening with us. Git is gaining ground. The most advanced version control system empowers software developers, streamlines …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Stefan Kleineikenscheidt: "Publishing kick-ass webpages using Confluence and Scroll Viewport at CatW…

The most common complaint against (enterprise) wikis such as Atlassian Confluence is that they lack structure – and not just for technical documentation. This blog post explains how you can create semantic structures for Confluence content. We recently held our first K1…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Tom Johnson (I'd Rather Be Writing): "Strategies for content re-use in Confluence" Strategies for co…

K15t’s first ever ShipIt Day was a runaway success – as you can see from these happy (and exhausted) faces. And at the end of an incredible day of coding, we found our winner. This blog post gives you a flavor of K15t Software’s first hackathon, held at our headquarters…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Acrolinx: "Speak With One Voice! Integrating the Acrolinx Content Optimization Platform into Atlassi…

Today we are proud to announce another Scroll content management add-on that helps you improve the quality and consistency of your Confluence content: Scroll Acrolinx Connector. It’s the quality of content that determines whether it will be read and understood, or ignor…

If you’d like to see our Scroll Content Management add-ons in action, join us at the catWorkX Midsummer Day 2014 http://www.catworkx.de/aktuelles/events/catworkx-midsummer-day-2014-eng  in Hamburg on Friday, June 27. At this event, K15t founder Stefan Kleineikenscheidt …

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Atlassian Blog: "5 blogs that will help make your Confluence intranet more social" 5 blogs that …

Are you a Java plugin developer interested in creating add-ons for JIRA, Confluence or other Atlassian software? If so, join us on July 17th for Java Forum Stuttgart http://www.java-forum-stuttgart.de/de/Home.html, in the heart of the city. At this event, K15t co-founde…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Val Fisher (contentrules.com): "The 6 Tools You Already Have for Improving Content Quality" The 6 To…

This blog post is about happy accidents, career opportunities, a writer’s DNA, and Confluence. Let me introduce myself and tell you the story of how I became a K15t Software staff member. Like so many good things in life, it happened by accident. When I first noticed K1…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Mark Baker (Every Page is Page One): "Content as Furniture" Content as Furniture – #ContentStrategy …

The new (German) Content Management System study of tekom http://www.technical-communication.org compares wiki-based documentation using Confluence combined with Scroll content management add-ons https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/7016 with 17 traditional content…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Scott Abel, reported by Sarah Maddox: "The Making of 'The Language of Content Strategy' (stc14)" The…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Tech Writer Today Magazine: "Agile and Tech Comm: Working on Remote Teams" Agile and Tech Comm: …

Come with us to Berlin and attend the AtlasCamp 2014 https://www.atlassian.com/atlascamp/2014 on June 3rd – 5th! It's the premier conference for Atlassian add-on and plugin developers to learn about the Atlassian developer platform, and hang out with developers from Atl…

Here's K15t Software http://www.k15t.com/'s weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Atlassian Blog: "Publishing Kick-Ass Websites with Confluence" Publishing Kick-Ass Websites with…

When technical writers meet at conferences, one of the very first questions is usually: “Which help authoring tool do you use to produce help content?” And that question is swiftly followed by “And which tool would you like to use instead?” At this point, most people wi…

Here's the K15t Software http://www.k15t.com's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story: "What makes the best infographics so convincing". #Design: "What Makes the Best Infographics So Convi…

https://www.atlassian.com/roadtripAtlassian is on the road again! This year, the Atlassian RoadTrip https://www.atlassian.com/roadtrip will stop in eight cities across the globe. Meet the K15t Software team on Thursday, May 8 http://atlassianroadtrip14berlin.eventbrite.…

Have you ever wondered whether you can display additional content (such as Atlassian's Confluence support docs) in the navigation sidebar and on each page? Well, I was wondering about this myself. And when I came upon the solution, I was quite surprised about where it w…

In my previous blogpost https://www.k15t.com/blog/2014/03/confluence-as-dms-editing-attachments-directly-with-goedit, I explained how GoEdit can be used to turn Atlassian Confluence from a premium collaboration tool into an easy-to-use document management system. But th…

"Jira? A bug-tracking tool? Why should I care?" That was my first reaction when I started working as a tech writer at K15t Software back in 2011. Now, over two years later, it is hard to imagine doing my job without it. Like me, increasing numbers of technical writers a…

Confluence is not a document management system (DMS). But many organizations use it for a huge range of purposes – even for sharing images, documents and other files. As Confluence is an extensible platform, let’s see how we can add missing DMS features to our favorite …

We are delighted to announce the release of Scroll Versions 2.3 https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions and Scroll Translations 1.2 https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-translations. This release enables you …

We at K15t Software use Confluence for everything: to share news and knowledge in-house, for external communications and our website, to collaborate with customers, to manage our documentation, to create quotations for our services, and even for employee contracts. All …

Software developers and technical writers have different roles and no doubt work in different ways. But they have one thing in common: they hate doing anything more than once. So both groups are naturally very interested in the concept of reusability, also known as the …

As the influence of the internet continues to grow, Search Engine Optimization and Content Marketing have become two of the hottest buzzwords of the moment. Having a kick-ass website, an informative blog, and a presence on leading social media channels are essential for…

If you're passionate about developing top-quality software, that passion could well take up most of your time. As a father of two, a basketball enthusiast and a hobby guitarist, I often found myself working on code when I would have liked to spend time on my other inter…

Some bugs can be fixed in a matter of minutes. But correctly incorporating your fix into the VCS can take much longer – especially if you have multiple related projects and the bugfix requires minor changes to all of them. Here at K15t, this applies to our Scroll Export…

"With Scroll Office and Scroll Versions, we can manage the whole documentation process within the Confluence infrastructure – and create our final documents from the repository. Norbert Bittner, CEO, up to data professional services Up to data is an IT service provider …

Some years ago, Canonical launched an initiative called One Hundred Papercuts to improve user experience with its Ubuntu operating system. A papercut is "a small, easily fixed bug or annoyance that a user will experience frequently". The name comes from the saying, "Dea…

I’m sure you’re familiar with the term dogfooding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food – using your own products in-house. We at K15t really do eat our own dog food: We employ Scroll Versions to manage the documentation of our Scroll add-ons http://www.…

This blog post has been updated to reflect version 4.0 of Scroll PDF Exporter. Read the latest post here https://www.k15t.com/blog/2018/10/amplify-your-confluence-exports-scroll-pdf-exporter-vs-confluence-s-native-exporter. This is a guest blog post by Thomas Krug. Thom…

The tekom annual conference is a must for all businesses that provide software and/or services for the technical communications sector. The latest releases of our Scroll add-ons https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/7016 were greeted with enthusiam. Scroll Translati…

Meet the K15t Software team at the tekom / tcworld annual conference 2013, get the latest news about the Scroll Add-ons for Confluence, and attend a talk of the K15t team and/or Susan Griffin of Atlassian. The conference will take place from November 6th till 11th in Rh…

We are proud to announce the next add-on in the Scroll product family: Introducing Scroll Viewport, our new theme add-on and framework for Confluence to create beautiful and simple themes - for websites, intranets, or to publish your documentation.  Have you ever though…

Scroll Translations helps you internationalizing your content: Manage multiple languages in the same Atlassian Confluence space and translate within or outside Atlassian Confluence.  Are you using Confluence for collaboration or documentation, and want to provide access…

Managing content in Confluence with the Scroll Versions add-on allows authors to schedule new pages, modifications or removals for a specific version. This is quite handy when documenting product features that appear (or disappear) in certain versions. However, in some …

After 9 months and up to 23 bugfix releases, we are proud to announce the release of the greatest and latest, new major version of our exporters: Scroll Exporters 3.0. In the Scroll Exporters 3.0 we redesigned the export user interface for all exporters – including Scro…

We're pleased to announce that the we have just released a point versions of our Scroll Exporters https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=k15t+scroll+exporter that are compatible with the upcoming Atlassian Conflu…

Since K15t Software was founded, a lot of talented individuals joined our team. Soon the initial office space became too small and we had to move into a new office. Last week we did it again - the new office is only a few steps away from the last one, but it's a giant l…

We have just released the public beta of a new add-on from the "little, useful and free helpers" category: The Expando Macro. The Expando Macro makes headings clickable and expands or collapses the content that belongs to that heading, and it expands content based on a …

Jeden Freitag Morgen findet bei K15t Software der Morning-Talk statt. Beim Morning-Talk stellt jeweils ein Mitarbeiter dem K15t-Team ein bestimmtes Thema vor, welches entweder besonders aktuell ist oder dem Mitarbeiter besonders am Herzen liegt. Der Morning-Talk von Chr…

Last week we had Information Developer and long term wiki-user Kelly McDaniel visiting us at our office in Stuttgart http://blog.k15t.com/2013/07/kelly-mcdaniel---pushing-back-the-frontier-of-wiki-based-documentation. Kelly was giving an inspiring talk about his story o…

Our website is based on Atlassian Confluence. On the homepage, we have integrated a stream that shows the tweets send by @K15tsoftware https://twitter.com/k15tsoftware. All over sudden, this stream stopped to work and here's why: On  June 11, 2013 Twitter retired its ol…

We are looking forward to welcome technical writer and wiki-user Kelly M. McDaniel this week in our Stuttgart office at K15t Software. Kelly is a Senior Information Developer and long term user of the Atlassian Confluence wiki and the Scroll Add-ons https://marketplace.…

The K15t Software team will attend the AtlasCamp 2013 in Amsterdam. Most of the team will arrive Tuesday night and stay the whole week. We are looking forward to meet you there and discuss all things wiki-based documentation and more... If you have any questions about t…

As we love to celebrate with friends, partners, and our adored customers, we invited a bunch of people to join our Scroll Versions 2.0 release party. As is right and proper, we had beer and pretzels and a couple of short talks about K15t Software and the latest add-ons …

Nine months after the release of Scroll Versions 1.0, we are proud to release a new major release - Scroll Versions 2.0. Managing multiple variants in a single space in Confluence 5 - Scroll Versions 2.0 makes it possible and brings you to the next step in managing your…

Atlassian hat vor kurzem die neueste Version von Confluence veröffentlicht: Confluence 5 http://blog.k15t.com/2013/02/confluence-5---ein-blick-auf-die-neuen-features . Die neue Seitenleiste ist die wohl augenfälligste Neuerung in Confluence 5. Sie ersetzt das alte Stan…

Atlassian hat heute die neueste Version von Confluence veröffentlicht: Confluence 5. Confluence 5 kommt mit jeder Menge neuer Features und einem neuen Design. Dass es sich bei der Versionsnummer 5 nicht nur um einen Marketing-Griff handelt, stellt Atlassian ziemlich bee…

This is a guest blog post by Sarah Goff-Dupont. Sarah is an agile delivery evangelist with Atlassian, a former test automation engineer, and a fan of anything that makes life easier for the nerds. Like continuous integration and automation, for example. Because manual t…

This is a guest blog post by Sarah Goff-Dupont. Sarah is an agile delivery evangelist with Atlassian, a former test automation engineer, and a fan of anything that makes life easier for the nerds. Like continuous integration and automation, for example. Because manual t…

Most MS Word files end up in a mess. At some stage a user will start tweaking settings for a paragraph and from there the things are getting worse. A good Word template helps delaying that point in time. It defines a cover page, headers and footers, and paragraph and ch…

Today we're happy to announce the availability of Scroll PDF Exporter 2.5. This release has some new features and a bunch of bugfixes. Import, Export and Copy Templates With Scroll PDF Exporter 2.5 it is possible to import, export and copy templates your existing templa…

To ensure the best quality of all your documentation, it is important to track the status of each page so only approved pages are published. This is essential for technical documentation. Confluence has no native workflow management, however, in addition to duplicate pa…

Duplicate page titles have been a requested feature for Confluence for a long time, because people want to have multiple "Introduction" pages for different sections in their wiki space. However, it is not supported by Confluence. But, in Scroll Versions' we have added t…

We spent the last couple of days at the tcworld conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. The tcworld conference is the most important technical communicators' conference in Europe. With a lot of english speaking tracks it is an internationally well recognized event. K15t Softw…

Right in time for Tekom 2012 we've relaunched the K15t Software website for better usability, more appealing design and more content.The new website is now based on Confluence 4.3 and a custom plugin that allows simpler templating and more flexible design (created by ou…

Are you looking for a good way to manage documentation in a wiki? Try Confluence 4.3 and Scroll Versions 1.1. The latest release Scroll Versions 1.1 comes with an additional reviewer role that is capable of reviewing versioned content. Also, the children macro has been …

Scroll Versions is our latest add-on for Confluence. It does not only support concurrent versions in one space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyT3gbr1dMM&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1, but also supports duplicate page titles. This means you can create pages with …

Letzte Woche ist Release Nummer 4.3 der Kollaborationsplattform Confluence von Atlassian veröffentlicht wurden. Unter der Bezeichnung „Team Collaboration Platform“ sind eine ganze Reihe toller neuer Funktionen hinzugekommen. Sehen Sie dazu mehr in unseren deutschsprachi…

In Zeiten unüberschaubarer eMail-Fluten, nutzloser Meetings und ständiger Unterbrechungen wundert es niemanden mehr, dass es Teams zunehmend schwer fällt ihre Arbeit zu erledigen, aber Rettung ist in Sicht: Confluence 4.3 — Lesen Sie hier unsere Zusammenfassung der wich…

If you have not considered Confluence for technical writing before, now is the right time to have a look: We are proud to announce the release of our latest Confluence add-on Scroll Versions. Scroll Versions is our latest add-on for Confluence, the enterprise wiki by At…

Wikis are a great tool for technical documentation. Structuring and authoring the content in a collaborative way is as easy as it can be. A bigger challenge is keeping track of the whole documentation process. Especially when working in bigger teams it is important to k…

Although all of our exporters were already working with Confluence 4.1 we haven't marked them as compatible. The reason for this decision is simple - Image Effect Support Image Effects let you put cool effects to your images, screenshots or photos. With just one click o…

Atlassian Team Calendars for Confluence and Jira have evolved rapidly over the last few months. Coming from release 1.0 to 1.8 in 8 months is quite a fast pace. Let's take a closer look at this really helpful plugin and how it can be used to improve your daily business.…

Good news for all Confluence users and Technical Writers out there: Confluence 4.1 has just arrived. Atlassian is making a huge christmas present by bringing Confluence 4.1 just in time for the holiday season. Confluence has some cool new features, that will make a lot …

Yeah, we finally did it! We moved to a new office! Over the last months we've grown quite a bit and now it's time for a new Office. Due to massive growth ;-) over the last weeks and months, we were thinking a lot about leaving our beloved office-community and moving to …

Documentation processes in many cases require formal approvals and archiving to comply with common regulations or company policies. This is also true when using wikis like the Confluence wiki for documentation. Therefore the Ad hoc Workflow plugin and the the Scroll Wik…

Information November 7, 2018 Please note, that the functionality described in this blog post has been removed in Scroll Office 3.0, due to technical limitations we were runnning into. We're tracking a similar functionality in our public Jira system here: EXP-344 https:/…

Today we're happy to announce the availability of Scroll Wiki Enhanced PDF Exporter 2.2. This release provides compatibility with Confluence 4. Scroll Wiki Enhanced PDF Exporter is the 3rd plugin we release for Confluence 4. This release mainly focuses on Confluence 4 c…

Today we're excited to announce the availability of Scroll Office Enhanced Word Exporter 2.3. This release provides compatibility with Confluence 4. Scroll Office is the 2nd plugin we release for Confluence 4. The release of Scroll Office 2.3 mainly focuses on Confluenc…

Today, Atlassian released Confluence 4 - a great release with the awesome new rich-text-editor. The changes for the new editor also result in an incompatibility with our exporter plugins, which means we have to migrate our exporter plugins to work with Confluence 4. The…