Confluence
Features – Integrate
From daily office tools to enterprise systems.
Integrate your daily office tools
RSS and email
Stay on top of Confluence page updates and new comments via RSS feeds or email. You can also integrate external feeds within Confluence pages and maintain an archive of your team's email conversations.
PDF documents
Confluence can export any page, or an entire space, as a PDF document. Your Confluence links and page hierarchies are maintained within the PDF document.
Microsoft Office
The free Office Connector ties Confluence to Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Edit wiki content within Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Embed and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
WebDAV
By accessing Confluence from your WebDAV client (e.g. 'Web Folders' on Windows), you can manage your Confluence spaces, pages and attachments from familiar tools such as Windows Explorer.
Microsoft SharePoint
The SharePoint Connector combines Confluence's free-form, easy to edit wiki with the document management and workflow strengths of SharePoint. Seamlessly edit, collaborate and search across both applications — all with a single login.
Integrate your enterprise systems
LDAP support
When you connect Confluence to your existing LDAP repository, such as Active Directory, everyone benefits:
- administrators only have to manage one user-base.
- users can login to Confluence with their familiar network login name and password.
- "We've hooked Confluence up to our LDAP, and it works a treat ... Having one username that works across everything is a great benefit." Ben Still, Managing Director at Red Ant
SOAP / XML-RPC interfaces
Confluence provides full web service interfaces for your applications or scripts to remotely update content, manage users or administer individual spaces. For example, this allows your remote systems to publish reports or status updates to Confluence, where they become automatically viewable, searchable and linkable. Each step of the journey is, of course, protected by Confluence's layers of security.
Usage example: Every night, a script reads your IP phone database and publishes the latest list of names and phone numbers on Confluence.
JIRA and Bamboo integration
Your development team can easily publish reports of their work in Confluence. Add JIRA roadmaps, workflow, and tasks, or Bamboo build success, or to document your Confluence pages. Confluence can display reports on:
- Open versus closed issues
- Number of builds and build success
- Documentation of process and software features
- And more
Learn more about Confluence's integration with Atlassian products
Plugin system
Confluence has a powerful plugin system allowing developers to integrate Confluence into their external applications, provide new functions and macros to their users, and even to drive external applications from within Confluence.
Java API
Commercial and academic licensees receive access to the full Confluence source code of the application and a full Java API to programmatically interact with Confluence.