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Comala Document Management users moving to Confluence Cloud need to migrate to our corresponding cloud app, Comala Document Management for Cloud. This page compares the functionality between our server and cloud app by feature.

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FAQ Cloud Capabilities

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Workflows

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Page Workflow/Approval

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Space Workflow/Approval

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Space Workflow/Approval by Labels

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Global Workflow/Approval

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Custom workflows - ability to create custom workflows, including custom states and transitions

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Workflows Exchange

Import workflows from a repository. 

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Workflow Builder

Modify your workflows using our graphical Workflow Builder.

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Custom Triggers

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Approvals

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Approvals

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Minimum reviewers

Set how many reviewers are needed to complete the approval.

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Preassign reviewers

Preassigned users can be set and will be required to review the content.

Manual assignment of reviewers can also be limited to be from specific users and/or user groups.

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Exclude reviewers

User(s) and/or group(s) that cannot review the approval but could still add reviewers to the approval.

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Limit assigners

User(s) and/or group(s) that can assign the review. I.e., limit who can assign users in an approval.

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Custom buttons labels

Custom approve/reject button captions

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Compliance requirements

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Approval E-signatures

Reviewers need their user/email and password to sign-off.

(Cloud support for this feature is limited to OTP using a third party app )

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Confluence audit logging

Full audit trail of key events (e.g., changes to configuration, templates, parameters, etc.) in the Confluence Audit Log.

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Views navigation

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Draft and published views

Users can browse the work-in-progress version or the last approved version of a page

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Draft restriction

Work-in-progress versions of pages can be restricted to users and/or groups

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This can be managed by using a Comala Document Management workflow together with the
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Reporting

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Page activity, space and user reports

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Document Report (space-wide report) includes a filter for checking “My pending approvals”

CQL advanced searches

Integration with the advanced CQL search capabilities of Confluence.

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Notifications

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Email notifications

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Workbox notifications

(Note: Confluence does not provide an API for cloud notifications)

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Custom notifications

Email, page messages, etc.

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Tasks

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Workflow tasks

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Parameters

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Custom workflow parameters

Custom specified parameters, which values are editable and can be referenced from the workflows.

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Space parameters

Parameters with a default value specified at space level

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Reviewers and due date type

States

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Add States

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Modify State Names

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Modify State Colours

Use colors to indicate important states, show rejected pages, specific approval roles...

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Add Due Dates

Add due dates in any state

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Expiration dates

Modify Due Dates

Change existing due dates

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Initialize States

Transition all content for the associated workflow into a specific state within that workflow.

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Page Layout

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Instructions

Messages to provide guidance to content creators about next steps after creating the page. 

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Header and footer

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Configuration

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Global

Who can see drafts, require comments, page updates reset approvals.

Security options, default notifications for given workflow events.

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Space

Draft visibility, internal page publishing settings

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Clear history

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 Internationalization (i18n)

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i18n

Dutch, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Spanish

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Integration

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Third Party App Support

Communardo Metadata, K15t Versions, K15t Scroll PDF.

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Java API

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REST API

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Need more help learning about the differences between our cloud and server apps - check out the documentation for Comala Document Management for Confluence Data Center and Server/Data Center and the documentation for Comala Document Management Cloud.

Contact our team for assistance.