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Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

You're reading from   Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials Centralize all your organization's documentation in one place using Confluence. From installation to using add-ons, this is a complete, user-friendly tutorial that assumes virtually no prior knowledge.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689526
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kohler Stefan Kohler
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Using Confluence labels


To categorize, identify, or bookmark content in Confluence we can use labels. Labels are keywords or tags that can be added to pages, blog posts, attachments, and spaces as metadata. Labels are user-defined so any word that identifies your content can be used.

For example, you can assign the label "requirement" to all pages with project requirements. It is then possible to browse, or list, all pages with that label in a single space or even across Confluence. It is also possible to search content based on that label.

The advantages of using labels are as follows:

  • Labels are user-defined, so you can decide what information is relevant and how you want to label them, using words you and your users understand

  • With labels you can group pages and spaces without having to restructure your site

  • You can add as many labels as you like

  • Labels are easily added without affecting the content to which you assign a label

Confluence doesn't support multiword labels. Which means that, to...

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