This page last changed on Jun 14, 2011 by pwatson.
The 'What's New' dialog automatically displays when a user first logs in after a major Confluence upgrade (e.g. upgrading to Confluence 3.5). The dialog displays a summary of the new features for the release, sourced from our website (by default).
Confluence administrators can configure the behaviour of the 'What's New' dialog, as follows:
- Change the URL that the 'What's New' dialog retrieves information from.
- Disable the dialog.
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Screenshot above: An example of the 'What's New' dialog
Changing the 'What's New' Dialog URL
The 'What's New' dialog URL is stored in your Confluence help-paths.properties file. This URL is a concatenation of the help.prefix property with the help.whats.new.iframe.link .
Before you begin:
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help.prefix property also defines the base URL for Confluence help links, i.e. help links in the Confluence application.
To change the 'What's New' Dialog URL:
Follow the instructions in the 'Changing the Links for Individual Help Pages' section on Local Confluence Documentation. You will need to update the 'help.prefix ' and 'help.whats.new.iframe.link ' properties, as desired.
For example, you may have installed your Confluence documentation behind a firewall at http://www.example.com/ and created a page http://www.example.com/whatsnew that you use for change management. In this case, you would do the following:
There is an additional property 'help.whats.new.full.link '. This is only used if the content pointed to by the updated URL isn't loaded in 10 seconds, in which case a 'timeout' screen is displayed with a link to the full 'What's New' content. For locally-hosted pages you can just set this property to the same value as help.whats.new.iframe.link .
Disabling the 'What's New' Dialog
The 'What's New' dialogue is enabled via a plugin. To disable the 'What's New' dialogue, you need to disable the 'Confluence What's New' plugin in Confluence.
To disable the 'Confluence What's New' plugin:
Follow the instructions on Disabling or Enabling a Plugin. Please note, the 'Confluence What's New' plugin is a 'System Plugin'. Click 'Show System Plugins' on the Plugins administration page to display the system plugins.
Notes
Disabling or Enabling a Plugin
Local Confluence Documentation
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