About Confluence Connectors

Data Center Version

The Confluence connector is an enterprise grade indexing connector that enables content stored in Confluence to be crawled and indexed.

This connector enables SharePoint, or any other portal, to serve as the single point from which users can search and retrieve the content they need from multiple content sources.

Features

• Crawls and indexes multiple types of content from Confluence.
• Respects Confluence security, and only surfaces the content that users are permitted to see.
• Indexes but does not copy content, so users who click on a search result are taken directly to the most up to date content in Confluence.

Security

• If you want to crawl content with security, the crawling account must be an Administrator account to have access to user and group information and permissions on spaces and pages.
• The Confluence Connector requires the BA Insight Advanced Security Module to honor the full security model defined in Confluence.

Limitations

• There is no custom filter for attachments and comments.
• The REST API version has limitations such as:
  • Does not enumerate disabled users.
  • Does not enumerate all content from a space which the admin user doesn't have access.

Cloud Version

The Confluence connector is an enterprise grade indexing connector that enables content stored in Confluence Cloud to be crawled and indexed.

This connector enables SharePoint, or any other portal, to serve as the single point from which users can search and retrieve the content they need from multiple content sources.

Features

• Crawls and indexes multiple types of content from Confluence Cloud.
• Respects Confluence security, and only surfaces the content that users are permitted to see.
• Indexes but does not copy content, so users who click on a search result are taken directly to the most up-to-date content in Confluence Cloud.

Security

• To crawl content with security, the crawling account must be an Administrator account.
  • This is required in order to have access to user and group information and permission to spaces and pages.
• The Confluence Cloud Connector requires the BA Insight Advanced Security Module to honor the full security model defined in Confluence.

Limitations

• Restricted pages are not enumerated if the admin user does not have permissions to them.
• Incremental crawls Scanning and capturing only new data from all of your content sources. This data did not exist when the last crawl was run. pick up incremental changes only, which changes the modified date of the pages.
• Not enumerated:
  • Space content not accessible by the admin user is not enumerated.
• There is no custom filter for attachments and comments.

All Versions

Confluence Custom Logos

Errors may occur if your Confluence instance(s) uses custom logos for Confluence spaces.

• This does not affect the ability of the BA Insight Confluence connector to crawl all your data completely and accurately.
• Errors may appear in the logs for Confluence space that uses a custom logo.
• This is a known issue and traces its source to the Atlassian Confluence product.