Baselines for Confluence is available on both Confluence Cloud and Confluence Data Center.
If your team takes snapshots of spaces to preserve a record of your content at key milestones, that capability now travels with you no matter which edition you run. Alongside official Data Center compatibility, this release adds a handful of features that make baselines easier to work with at scale.
What is Baselines for Confluence?
Baselines for Confluence is an app that enables you to take snapshots of your Confluence spaces. You can create snapshots based on a specific point in time or you can pick individual pages and page versions to include in the snapshot.
Each snapshot includes links to specific versions of your content, such as pages and attachments, within the space. With this functionality, you can:
- Preserve a historical record of your content at key milestones.
- Access baselined versions of your content easily.
- Compare snapshots to identify changes between two points in time.
And best of all, Baselines for Confluence is built using Atlassian Forge. On the Forge platform, your baseline data is hosted on Atlassian infrastructure and it automatically supports Data Residency.
What's New in This Release
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CSV export. Baselines already supported exporting individual pages and full baselines to PDF. Now you can export the list of documents in a baseline as a CSV file, with each document's title, type, location, version, date, and a direct URL to open it. Useful if you need to hand a baseline off to someone who just wants a spreadsheet, not the app itself.
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Paging and search on the baseline view. If a baseline holds thousands of documents, scrolling through one long list stops being practical. The view now pages through results and lets you search, including by document location, so you can pull up everything under a specific space or folder without hunting for it manually.
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Read-only mode support. Confluence Data Center's read-only mode is often switched on during migrations or maintenance windows. Baselines now respects it, so nobody can accidentally create or modify baseline data while the rest of Confluence is locked down.
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Progress bars on create and compare. Building or comparing large baselines takes a little time. Both operations now show a progress bar, so you can see it's working rather than wondering if it's stuck.
Why It Matters That Both Editions Are Covered
Cloud and Data Center exist for genuinely different reasons. Some teams choose Data Center because of data residency rules, network isolation requirements, or industry regulation that Cloud doesn't satisfy for them. Others are simply mid-migration between the two, running one edition today and planning a move to the other.
Either way, the same question comes up: does our documentation history and audit trail come with us, or do we start over? With Baselines now on both platforms, the answer is that it comes with you. If you're moving from Server or Data Center to Cloud, our migration documentation covers what happens to your existing baselines during that move.
Want to see it on your own spaces? Visit the Atlassian Marketplace to install it, or book a demo if you'd rather walk through it with us first.
