Has anyone used Confluence as a backend editing system for a CMS?

[John Spinosa]

I volunteer for an organization that uses Craft as their CMS which is controlled by a marketing group. However, our technical documentation that is created and maintained by volunteers uses Confluence as their collaboration tool. The folks writing the documentation don't want to use Craft for their editing. Is there a way to continue using Confluence as our editing platform, but have the display and rendering go through the CMS product (via API hopefully). We want to avoid any conversion to pdf. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Nils Bier _K15t_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Spinosa 

If you're running on Confluence Server you might want to have a look at Scroll Viewport.

Scroll Viewport allows you to use Confluence as a CMS and display your content styled in your organization's design to your readers.

We ourselves are using it for our own Help Center on help.k15t.com, also the Atlassian docs on confluence.atlassian.com are running on Scroll Viewport with Confluence as "backend".

We've currently started developing a new theme that's more targeted on creating technical documentation help sites. If you'd be interested to learn more, please feel free to sign up for our newsletter on www.k15t.com, and we'll be happy to share more information as soon as the theme is available.

Cheers,
Nils

[John Spinosa]

Thank you. That is very helpful.

[James Dellow · Accepted solution]

There are examples of apps that do something similar, but not for Craft. For example Scroll WP Publisher and Instant Websites for Confluence. The developer of those apps might be able to help with adding support for Craft.

[John Spinosa]

thank you very much.