Your Glossary for Confluence Documentation

Setup

Your Glossary makes use of existing Confluence pages with tables of definitions, such as this page Example Table of Definitions .

You can use pages with any number of tables, and you can select which columns to use.

Adding a new page of definitions

1. Click on the Apps tab at the top of Confluence

   

2. Select Manage Apps

   

3. Select Your Glossary Settings

   

4. You should see a page like this

   

5. Copy the full url of the Confluence page you want to use and paste it into the box below “New Page Url”

   

6. Press the “Add Page/Save Column Changes" button

   

7. The page will update and look something like the following

   

Changing the columns used for a table on a page

1. Select the page you want to edit the columns for from the tab section below “Currently Watched Pages”

   

2. Locate the table number you wish to edit on that page. Tables are numbered from top to bottom of the page starting with table 1 being the first table on the page.

   

3. Click on the appropriate dropdown to change the column used for either the key or the definition. The “key” is the acronym, word or phrase you want to be able to lookup for example “AWOL” and the definition is what you want people to see when they highlight that key and use Your Glossary e.g. “Absent Without Leave”. Columns are numbered from left to right with the first column being column 1. For example, if I wanted to be able to highlight Country Codes such as “AS” using this page Example Table of Definitions , then I would select column number 3 for the key and column number 1 for the definition. Then when someone highlighted “AS” and used the Your Glossary lookup, it would show them “American Samoa”

   

4. To save your changes, press the “Add Page/Save Column Changes" button

   

Removing a page

1. Select the page you want to remove from the tab section below “Currently Watched Pages”

   

2. Press the “Remove this page” button

   

3. The page will update and the removed page will no longer be used to lookup definitions

Looking up acronyms, words or phrases

1. First, simply highlight some text on a Confluence page

   

2. Clickthe down arrow on the right of the popup

   

3. Click the Your Glossary button

   

4. Your Glossary will then look through all your setup pages for any definitions and then display them to you inline