Collections global viewer

Collections global viewer

The collections global viewer is accessed from the Confluence header menu bar.

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In the My Collections sidebar, for the current user, the viewer displays a list of all collections in the instance.

The right-hand viewer panel displays the content of a chosen snapshot document in a collection, by default as HTML with an option to view as a PDF document.

To view the PDF or HTML content for a snapshot in a collection a user must either be the collection manager or has

• view permission for the collection (the user has been added as a collection viewer)

• contributor permission for the collection (the user has been added as a collection contributor)

For the selected snapshot document in a collection

• by default is displayed in HTML format

• can choose to view in PDF format and if required download a snapshot document version as a PDF

• the left-hand viewer displays the snapshot document metadata.

Snapshot document

The snapshot document selected in the My Collections menu is listed under each collection it has been added to.

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HTML view

The currently selected snapshot document displayed in the viewer is displayed by default in HTML format.

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The latest snapshot document version is displayed. Previous snapshot versions (if present) can viewed using the version drop-down menu.

PDF view

Choose the View as PDF button in HTML view to view the snapshot in PDF format.

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Choose View as HMTL to toggle the format view.

Snapshot document metadata

Metadata for a selected snapshot document is displayed in the left-hand My Collections menu.

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The metadata displayed is

• snapshot version

• Confluence page version (of the source document for the snapshot version)

• snapshot creator (name of collection contributor for this snapshot)

• snapshot creation date

• link to source Confluence page (latest version)

• Confluence source space