Confluence integration guide
How to keep Confluence up to date
Pages in your Confluence knowledge base go stale when your product changes faster than the people who own them can update them.
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The short answer
- What Confluence offers
- Your Confluence documentation has features like Verified status for confirming pages, the Content manager for finding inactive pages, and Approvals for reviewing changes.
- Where it stops
- Each one runs on a date, on page activity or on a person remembering, so none can tell that a change to your product made a page wrong.
- Where Solo fits
- Solo compares your code changes with your documentation, flags the pages a change made wrong, and drafts fixes that a person approves before they reach Confluence.
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Why it matters
Why an accurate knowledge base matters
A feature in your product changes, the people who own the pages hear about it late, and the page keeps describing the old screen. Customers then fall back to the request form, Rovo answers from stale steps, and the wrong page keeps surfacing in suggestions.
Customers solve problems without a request
Customers reach your pages through the Jira Service Management help center, where a linked space, folder or page powers the knowledge base, or through a single page shared with a public link. A page with an old step sends them to the request form with the same question.
Rovo and the virtual service agent answer correctly
Rovo Search and Rovo Chat answer from content across your connected tools, including Confluence pages, and the Jira Service Management virtual service agent draws on the linked knowledge base to answer customers. A stale page becomes a confident wrong answer.
The right page shows up when people search
Article suggestions in a Jira Service Management request form and Rovo Search both surface pages by what they say. If a page describes a setting you removed, the wrong answer reaches people before they open a request.
Built-in tools
What Confluence already offers for knowledge base maintenance
Confluence has several built-in ways to keep pages in shape, including Verified status, the Content manager, Approvals and Rovo. They run on dates, page activity and people noticing, and none of them can see that your product changed, so a wrong page stays live until someone spots it.
| Stage | Confluence's features | Missing features |
|---|---|---|
| 01Know upcoming changes | Confluence has no feature for this stage. Automation rules can run on a schedule or when a page is published or moved, but they react to events inside it, not to a change in your product. | Nothing warns you that a page is about to describe the wrong thing. A change to your product reaches your pages only if a product manager or developer tells the page owner. |
| 02Identify outdated articles | Page owners and space admins can mark a page Verified, and an automation template removes the status from inactive verified pages and emails the owner. The Content manager (Premium and Enterprise) filters a space by last active date, owner and status. | Both go by time and activity, so a page nobody touched can still be right and a page people open daily can still describe a removed setting. The Last active filter also leaves out pages that have child pages. |
| 03Draft updated copy | In the Confluence editor, Rovo drafts content from your prompt and improves selected writing. In Jira Service Management, it can compare a resolved request with an existing article and point out outdated steps. | Rovo drafts from the prompt and the sources you give it, such as a resolved request. It has no view of your code change behind the update, so the owner still works out what is different. |
| 04Collaborate on updates | Content statuses such as Rough draft, In progress and Ready for review show where a page stands, and Approvals (Premium and Enterprise) lets you name approvers who approve or request changes. | Statuses and approvals track who is reviewing, not what is wrong. Reviewers still have to find out what changed in your product. |
| 05Publish changes | Pages publish from the editor, and a status change made in edit mode reaches the live page when you publish. Pages in a space linked to your service project feed its knowledge base. | Publishing is a manual step. Nothing updates a page when your feature goes live. |
With Solo
Confluence knowledge base management with Solo on top
Confluence can't see your codebase, so it can't tell when a change to your product made a page wrong. Solo reads code changes in your connected repositories next to your indexed pages, flags the ones a change made wrong, and drafts the fix. A person reviews each one, and accepting it writes the update to the page.
What Solo adds to Confluence's built-in tools
| Stage | Confluence without Solo | Confluence with Solo |
|---|---|---|
| 01Know upcoming changes | Confluence has no feature for this stage. Automation rules can run on a schedule or when a page is published or moved, but they react to events inside it, not to a change in your product. | Solo reads code changes in your connected repositories and summarizes them in plain language, so your team hears about a change from your code instead of from a teammate. |
| 02Identify outdated articles | Page owners and space admins can mark a page Verified, and an automation template removes the status from inactive verified pages and emails the owner. The Content manager (Premium and Enterprise) filters a space by last active date, owner and status. | Solo compares each change summary with your documentation and flags the pages a change made confidently wrong, with the reason and the sources behind it. |
| 03Draft updated copy | In the Confluence editor, Rovo drafts content from your prompt and improves selected writing. In Jira Service Management, it can compare a resolved request with an existing article and point out outdated steps. | Solo drafts replacement text from your code change and shows it beside the current wording, so the owner edits a draft instead of starting from a blank page. |
| 04Collaborate on updates | Content statuses such as Rough draft, In progress and Ready for review show where a page stands, and Approvals (Premium and Enterprise) lets you name approvers who approve or request changes. | Each suggestion reaches your team with the old and proposed text and the sources that triggered it, and they accept, edit, add to draft, reject, snooze or mark it resolved elsewhere. |
| 05Publish changes | Pages publish from the editor, and a status change made in edit mode reaches the live page when you publish. Pages in a space linked to your service project feed its knowledge base. | Once a person accepts a suggestion, Solo writes the approved text to the Confluence page. Add to Draft keeps it in Solo until your team publishes it. |
Questions
Confluence page verification and review questions
What docs and support leads ask when their knowledge base lives in Confluence.
How do I run a Confluence content audit?
Confluence has no feature called a content audit, so start with the Content manager on Premium and Enterprise plans. Open Space settings › Content manager, filter by last active date, owner and status, then archive, delete or reassign pages in bulk. That finds pages nobody touches, not pages that are wrong, so also check the pages tied to features you changed since your last audit against your product itself.
How does Confluence page verification work?
A page owner or a space or site admin sets the Verified status from the page's status menu. An automation template can remove it from inactive pages and email the owner to review them. Verification tells readers a person checked the page, not that it still matches your product.
Does Rovo read my Confluence pages to answer questions?
Rovo Search and Rovo Chat answer from content across your connected tools, including Confluence pages. Rovo is included with Standard, Premium and Enterprise Cloud plans, with a monthly credit allowance per user. A stale page can come back as a confident answer, so fixing the page fixes the answer.
Which Confluence AI features help with a knowledge base?
In the editor, Rovo drafts content and improves writing. In Jira Service Management, it can draft articles from resolved requests and compare a resolution with an existing article to find outdated steps. These work from tickets and the sources you give them, not from your code.
Can I keep a customer-facing knowledge base in Confluence?
Yes, in two ways. You can link a Confluence space, folder or page to a Jira Service Management knowledge base so customers find articles in your help center portal, or you can share a single page with a public link. Either way the page in Confluence is the source, so keeping it right keeps the portal right.
Does Solo update Confluence pages on its own?
No. Solo connects to Confluence, indexes your pages and drafts the fix, but a person reviews every suggestion. Accept writes the approved text to the page, and Add to Draft keeps it in Solo until you publish it.
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