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Getting Started Guide for Confluence Administrators

Getting started guide for Confluence administrators using GitHub Links for Confluence

Connect GitHub links for Confluence with your organization

To Connect GitHub links for Confluence with the organization, navigate to Confluence as an administrator.

  1. Go to your Confluence administration.

  2. Scroll down to the Apps section and select Github

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  3. To connect via GitHub App, select check the radio button for GitHub App (Recommended) and click Connect to GitHub

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  4. You may receive a prompt regarding opening an external page, if so click Continue

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  5. Select where you would like to install GitHub Links for Confluence, which can be a personal account or organization:

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  6. Configure which repositories to include, it’s also possible to review the permissions granted from there, then click Install.

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  7. Finally confirm access, and you should be redirected to Confluence

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Make sure that when you authorize our GitHub OAuth App to access your data you select the organization you want to use the App with.

Disconnecting GitHub links for Confluence

To Disconnect GitHub Links from Confluence

  1. Go to the Confluence administration, then go to the apps configuration section

  2. Click on Disconnect App

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  3. From GitHub, navigate to the GitHub Apps section, locate Links for Confluence and click Configure

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  4. Under Danger Zone, where it says Uninstall “Links for Confluence” click Uninstall

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Reviewing Permissions & Repository access

To review the permissions granted to the application

  1. Go to GitHub and navigate to the GitHub Apps section, locate Links for Confluence and click Configure

  2. From here, you can see the Permissions currently granted to Links for Confluence

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To update repository access

  1. From the same Links for Confluence section go to the Repository access section

  2. Update the repository access based on All repositories or Only select repositories

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  3. Once the necessary updates have been made, click Save

Usage with private repositories

To use the private repositories, you need to allow our GitHub App to access your private repositories. We do not clone or access source code. We use GitHub APIs to get additional information from the links inserted in Confluence.

If you want to use this App only with public repositories - you do NOT need any additional configuration. It works out of the box.

When you allow GitHub App to access your data, please make sure that you grant permissions to your organization as well, not only your personal repositories.

Use cases of GitHub and Confluence integration

Use Cases

How-to guides

GitHub links for Confluence Cloud Guides

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