Scroll Versions and Scroll Documents Compared

Versioning

Create and manage different versions of your documentation in Confluence.

Available

Available

Both apps provide functionality to create and manage versions of your documentation, there are some fundamental differences between them.

To learn more about this read: Manage Versions

Variants and Conditional Content

Create and manage different variants of your documentation. 

Available

Available  

Both apps provide functionality to create and manage different variants of your documentation, but there are some differences between them.

To learn more about this read: Manage Variants and Conditional Content

Publish in Confluence

Publish the documentation from your authoring space to another space.

Available

Available

Scroll Versions supports three different mechanisms to publish content within Confluence: Publish to a new space, Publish to an existing space, and Publish within the same space.

Scroll Documents enables you to publish to an existing target space or a specific parent page within your authoring space.

To learn more about this read: Publish Versions and Variants

Publish to the Web

Publish your documentation and its versions to a publicly available Help Center using Scroll Viewport

Available

Available

Both apps integrate with Scroll Viewport on Data Center and Cloud.

To learn more about this read: Publish Versions and Variants

Publish to a Document

Publish your documentation and its versions into different file formats with Scroll Exporters.

Available

Available

Both apps integrate with our Scroll Exporters on Data Center and Cloud.

To learn more about this read: Publish Versions and Variants

Publish to a different Confluence Instance (Remote Publishing)

Publish your content to a different Confluence instance.

Available

Unavailable

We are not planning to implement this functionality in Scroll Documents.

On Cloud you can use Scroll Viewport to publish your documents to a publicly available site without giving your readers access to your Confluence instance. On Data Center you can export with our Scroll HTML Exporter and upload the export to a separate server.

Content Reuse

Reuse content within and between versioned spaces.

Available

Partially available

While reusing content within the same space is possible in Scroll Documents, with Scroll Versions you can set up an Include Library to reuse versioned content from one space to another. These Include Libraries are supported by the conversion tool, but the reuse will work differently in Scroll Documents.

Learn more about how this works: Reuse Versions

Workflows

Manage your versioned content with an inbuilt basic workflow.

Partially available

Unavailable

Scroll Versions includes an inbuilt workflow and integrates with Comala Document Management for use on versioned pages. Whereas Scroll Documents does not have its own workflow feature yet. However, there are other ways you can manage an author and review process with Scroll Documents. To learn more about this, read: Compare, Track, and Review Versions and Variants

To follow progress, we recommend watching this Jira issue: DOCS-17

To keep in mind

For audit purposes, page statuses from Comala Document Management are copied to the newly converted space. Note:

• Only the latest page revision status is included; historical data is not copied.

• You need to enable Comala Document Management in the new space to see the status. However, since Scroll Documents does not integrate with Comala, avoid using workflows here for anything other than displaying the old status.

Duplicate Page Titles

Manage duplicate page titles within the authoring space.

Available

Partially available

Both apps support duplicate page titles within the same space to some extent. With Scroll Documents, you cannot have the same page title twice in one version within Confluence. However, if you use Scroll Viewport or the Scroll Exporters to publish your content, this is possible.

To learn more, read:

• Conversion with Duplicate Page Titles

• Add Scroll Page Titles

• Can I Use the Same Page Title Multiple Times in Scroll Documents?

Page Keys & Context Sensitive Help

Assign Page Keys to specific pages that can be used to link to that page.

Available

Available

Page Keys have been renamed to Context Keys and are available in Scroll Documents and Scroll Viewport for Cloud.

To learn more about this, we recommend reading: Assign Context Keys

Scroll Roles

Apply additional permission control for specific features in Scroll Versions.

Available

Partially available

In Scroll Documents, you can manage your author and review workflow by utilizing space and document restrictions.

For more information, see: Compare, Track, and Review Versions and Variants

Scroll Search

Filter for specific versions, or variants in advanced search within Confluence.

Available

Partially available

The Scroll Search feature is not available in Scroll Documents. Instead, you can search for specific pages in Confluence using the version and/or language prefixes in your search query to locate a page in a specific version and language.

Java API

Integrate Confluence other Server apps with Scroll Versions.

Available

Partially available

(Data Center only)

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REST API (unofficial)

Use REST resources for process automation.

Available

Pending ⏳

Scroll Documents does not yet have any APIs available for public use.
To follow the progress we recommend watching this Jia issue: DOCS-200