Confluence Docs 3.3 : Using the Documentation Theme
This page last changed on Mar 23, 2010 by smaddox.
The Documentation theme is one of the themes bundled with Confluence. It provides an inbuilt table of contents for your wiki space, a configurable header and footer, and text styles suited to documentation. This page tells you how to view pages in your Confluence space when your space uses the Documentation theme. For the full list of features and instructions on applying the theme to a space, see the guide to configuring the Documentation theme.
The rest of this page gives more details of the above guidelines. On this page: Using the Documentation ThemeScreenshot: A page in a space that uses the Documentation theme By default, the left-hand panel contains a search box and a table of contents (page tree) showing all the pages in your space. Specifically, it shows the pages that are children of the space's home page.
Here is a summary of the things you can do on a page that uses the Documentation theme:
Supported BrowsersThe Documentation theme supports the following browsers:
Hints and TipsBelow are some hints that you may find useful when using the Documentation theme. Where can I see a working example of the Documentation theme?The Confluence documentation uses the Documentation theme. If you are reading this documentation online on the Atlassian documentation wiki, you are seeing a working version of the Documentation theme. Which pages will appear in the Documentation theme's table of contents?The theme constructs the page tree in the left-hand panel from all pages that are child pages of the space’s home page. Each space has a single page designated as the 'Home' page. You can specify the home page in the space administration section. Help, my pages do not appear in the Documentation theme table of contentsCause 1: Your pages are not under the space's home page. The most probable reason why your pages do not appear in the page tree in the left-hand panel is this: The theme constructs that table of contents from all pages that are child pages of the space’s home page. If your pages are above the home page in the page tree, they will not appear in the left-hand panel. There are two ways to fix the problem:
Cause 2: Problem with upgrade from Confluence 3.1, with Documentation theme as plugin, to Confluence 3.2 with Documentation theme bundled. If your existing Confluence installation already has the Documentation theme plugin installed, you may find that after upgrading to Confluence 3.2 the left-hand navigation bar is empty in the spaces that use the theme. The fix is to enable all modules of the Documentation theme plugin. See the knowledge base article. Help, my left-hand panel has disappearedIf your entire left-hand panel has disappeared when using the Documentation theme, this is probably because you have clicked the sidebar icon RELATED TOPICSConfiguring the Documentation Theme Take me back to the Confluence User's Guide ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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