Publishing documentation

[Greg Parsons]

If I use Confluence to create documenation for my product, can I publish the finished documentation into an online HTML format with navigation? I can see that you can export to HTML, but this does not provide the left navigation frame that is provided when you are creating the documentation pages.

[Greg Parsons · Accepted solution]

So we would need to use the download version rather than the OnDemand version we are using currently? I can make the pages public on our OnDemand system, but any anonymous users also see the Jira tab, whereas I really want them just to see the documentation on Confluence only.

[Harry Chan]

Hi, you can restrict access to JIRA and certain parts of Confluence but I do agree it'd be a better experience for users if you use standalone Confluence rather than the OnDemand version linked with JIRA as the look and feel wouldn't be as good.

[Greg Parsons]

My next question then is whether having developed the documention on the OnDemand version, we can easily trabsfer the content to a standalone public facing server later when we are ready for it to be used?

[Harry Chan]

It is possible to do space and/or site exports from Confluence to another Confluence and this has been done before. It's not too difficult.

[SimonS]

Hi Greg,

You can't publish to HTML and get all the features that you get when navigating Confluence natively.

Most customers simply install Confluence on a public-facing server and turn on anonymous access so you don't need to log in in order to see everything. Would this work in your case?

-Simon