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5 essential Confluence plugins to make pages even better
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5 essential Confluence plugins to make pages even better
TOP 5 APPS:
TOP 5 APPS:
1. Mosaic for Confluence
2. Forms for Confluence
3. ScriptRunner for Confluence
4. Gliffy Diagrams for Confluence
5. Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence
Want to extend Confluence, but don't know where to begin? Get started with these must-have Confluence apps from the Atlassian Marketplace.
Using Confluence is easy. But turning it into a single source of truth that users keep coming back to isn’t so simple with Confluence's native features. That’s where plugins come in.
To help you get started, we’ve put together a list of five essential Confluence apps that solve common problems for teams like yours.
Short on time? Here are the key takeaways
- Mosaic for Confluence: Best for designing outstanding pages and code-free space management
- Forms for Confluence: Best for creating forms, polls, and quizzes
- ScriptRunner for Confluence: Best for all-around automation
- Gliffy Diagrams for Confluence: Best for drawing complex diagrams
- Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence: Best for in-depth reporting
What are Confluence plugins (apps)?
Confluence plugins (now officially called apps) are add-ons that you can get from the Atlassian Marketplace. Think of them as enhancements that add extra functionality to your Confluence site, helping you do everything from designing engaging pages with Confluence macros to integrating other tools. With thousands of apps available, it can be overwhelming to find the ones that best fit your needs.
Enhance Confluence with these 5 apps:
1. Mosaic for Confluence
Best for: Making engaging, easy-to-navigate Confluence pages
Are you struggling with dull and unengaging Confluence pages? Mosaic for Confluence is a comprehensive macro toolkit that helps you design modern, professional-looking pages worthy of a website. Whether you're working on a wiki, intranet, project space, or documentation, designing user-friendly Confluence content is quick and simple. There’s no need to install multiple apps.
With Mosaic, you get:
- A handy formatting toolkit: Mosaic includes a range of macros, such as buttons, cards, backgrounds, tabs, and numbered headings (and many more) to help you bring structure and visual clarity to your content.
- Full-page templates: From knowledge bases and how-to articles to FAQ pages and documentation, Mosaic includes pre-built visual templates to kickstart your page creation.
- Smart Designer: Mosaic's design wizard helps you transform existing text into visual macros in just a few clicks.
- HTML macro: Design custom pages with fully secure HTML and CSS. Get sanitised JavaScript support with Mosaic Advanced Edition.
- Space Manager (included with Mosaic Advanced Edition): Create, manage, and delete hundreds of Confluence pages simultaneously from one central place and scale your content management - no coding required.
- Secure and Cloud-first: Not only is Mosaic built on Atlassian Forge, but it's also ISO-27001 certified, ensuring your data is secure.
Trusted by leading brands like Disney, Adobe, Visa, and Apple, Mosaic is a must-have for any serious Confluence user.
💡 Example use case: A product team wants their documentation to look and feel like a consumer-facing website, complete with interactive elements and clear navigation. Mosaic helps them achieve this quickly without the need for multiple apps.
2. Forms for Confluence
Best for: Quickly and securely gathering feedback and plugging gaps in Confluence workflows
Tired of moving users out of Confluence to capture data and requests? Forms for Confluence helps you add forms, polls, surveys, quizzes, and Jira Task Forms to key moments of your workflows so you can easily collect the right information at the right time.
Forms for Confluence comes with:
- Gather feedback however you want: The app's intuitive form builder lets you create a form, poll, or quiz depending on your needs. Choose from a range of question types, including short answers, star ratings, drop-downs, and conditional fields that show or hide questions based on previous answers.
- Dynamic data visualisation: When you've collected feedback, form data visualisations let you explore responses and uncover hidden insights in Confluence. Users can embed visualisations on Confluence pages or even export form data and charts to use in external reports.
- Jira Task Form integration: By linking a form to your chosen Jira project, users without Jira access are able to submit tickets directly from Confluence.
💡 Example use case: An HR team wants to run an employee engagement survey on the company intranet for maximum visibility. Using Forms for Confluence, they create a survey that uses conditional fields to show a comment box when an employee gives a low score. The team can pull the visualisations directly into a new page, ready to present to decision-makers, without leaving Confluence.
3. ScriptRunner for Confluence
Best for: Allowing administrators to extend Confluence's capabilities and automate critical tasks
ScriptRunner is one of the most powerful (and popular) apps in the ecosystem for automating work and extending software capabilities.
It's an all-in-one Confluence administration tool, making it ideal for admins who manage Confluence spaces, pages, and users. While its library of sample scripts means you don't have to be a developer to use it, more technical users can unlock even more power with the help of Groovy scripting. If you want to create bespoke processes, macros, and automations for your Confluence site, ScriptRunner is a must-have.
Side note: If you want to automate your entire workflow, ScriptRunner is also available for Jira and Bitbucket.
💡 Example use case: A Confluence administrator is overseeing several large spaces across their organisation. ScriptRunner's automation features help reduce the manual effort and time spent on managing and updating content. They can control pages in bulk and automate repetitive tasks by running scripts on a schedule, on demand, or in response to specific events.
4. Gliffy Diagrams for Confluence
Best for: Creating diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts inside Confluence
Image courtesy of Gliffy
As one of the most popular diagramming apps on the Atlassian Marketplace, Gliffy makes it simple to add rich visuals to any Confluence page. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface means team members of all technical levels can create clear diagrams in moments. Because Gliffy diagrams support fully searchable text and can be linked together, teams can treat their Confluence diagrams as an always-up-to-date single source of truth.
💡 Example use case: Example use case: A non-technical team uses a Confluence wiki to share project updates and brainstorm ideas. Gliffy helps them add and edit diagrams and charts to illustrate their content, without anyone needing to upload external screenshots or images.
5. Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence
Best for: Managing data in tables, and creating dynamic charts and graphs
The name says it all: this popular app transforms how you work with data in Confluence. It goes far beyond the platform’s out-of-the-box features, allowing you to build dynamic filters for your tables and create powerful visualisations, such as Gantt and pie charts. Boasting more than 15,000 installations to date, this is a handy analytical tool that will make you wonder why these features aren’t included as standard.
💡 Example use case: A marketing team is reporting on the success of a campaign. They want stakeholders to quickly filter information in tables and visualise top-level statistics in graphs. Table Filter and Charts for Confluence lets them build more sophisticated tables and present data in ways that standard Confluence functionality doesn't allow.
Don't be afraid of Confluence plugins!
You don't need coding experience or design expertise to use many of the most popular Confluence apps on the market. These apps are designed to enable anyone to extend and enhance Confluence's functionality. Give them a go!
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