Tutorials, example apps, and guides

You can use Forge and Connect to extend the capabilities of Confluence Cloud.

Forge tutorials and example apps

Forge is Atlassian's new development platform for building Jira and Confluence Cloud apps. It's designed to revolutionize how our cloud products are customized and extended. You can write an app in minutes while the platform takes care of security, compute, and storage.

To learn what's possible with Forge, check out:

• Forge tutorials and guides
• Forge example apps
• Codegeist app submissions built with Forge

Forge guides

To learn about coding specific Confluence tasks with Forge, see:

• Extend the Confluence editor

Connect tutorials

These tutorials help you learn how to develop with Connect on Confluence Cloud.

The basics

These tutorials get you familiar with the basic concepts:

• Getting started
  Get your development site set up, install Atlassian Connect Express, and get started with a basic "Hello, world" app
• Using the REST API
  Get familiar with three ways to call the REST API: using cURL, from a Connect route handler, and from a Connect view
• Creating a general page
  Display content using a generalPages module
• Creating a dynamic content macro
  Use a dynamicContentMacros module to create a dynamic content macro, calling an external API that displays pictures of cute dogs
• Working with a single-bodied macro
  Create a dynamic content macro and use the Get macro body by macro ID endpoint to retrieve the macro body
• Working with a multi-bodied macro
  Create a Tabs macro using the dynamicContentMacros module with a multi-bodied-rich-text bodyType
• Using webhooks
  Make your app responsive to Confluence events
• Creating a form
  Create a form macro that stores submissions in content properties

Content byline item

These tutorials show you how to work with the content byline item, the area under a page title that includes information about the latest version of the content:

• Creating a content byline item
  Use the contentBylineItems module to build a simple content byline item
• Changing a byline dynamically
  Use Connect to update the content byline item by changing the byline-ui value

Custom content

These tutorials walk you through building a content application that exposes to new content types, customers and notes:

• Adding a custom content type
  Use the customContent module to set up a new custom content type for storing information about customers
• Working with custom content
  Create instances of a custom content type
• Searching custom content
  Make the new custom content type searchable
• Working with custom content children
  Add a new custom content type as a child of another type

Multi-page blueprints

This tutorial shows how to use a Connect app to build templates for creating content:

• Multi-page blueprints with Confluence Connect
  Use the blueprints module to build a template that helps you create pages more easily

Connect guides

To learn about coding specific Confluence tasks with Connect, see:

• Connect troubleshooting guide
• Macro autoconvert with Confluence Connect
• Macro custom editor with Confluence Connect