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Comala Document Management users moving to Confluence Cloud will need to migrate to our corresponding cloud app, Comala Document Management. This page compares the functionality by feature.

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FAQ Cloud Capabilities

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Workflows

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Page Workflow/Approval

Space Workflow/Approval

Space Workflow/Approval by Labels

Global Workflow/Approval

Custom workflows - ability to create custom workflows, including custom states and transitions

Workflows Exchange

Import workflows from a repository. 

Workflow Builder

Modify your workflows using our graphical Workflow Builder.

Custom Triggers

Approvals

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Cloud

Approvals

Minimum reviewers

Set how many reviewers are needed to complete the approval.

Preassign reviewers

Preassigned users can be set and will be required to review the content.

Manual assignment of reviewers can also be limited to be from specific users and/or user groups.

Exclude reviewers

User(s) and/or group(s) that cannot review the approval but could still add reviewers to the approval.

Limit assigners

User(s) and/or group(s) that can assign the reviewers can be limitedreview. I.e., limit who can assign users in an approval.

Custom buttons labels

Custom approve/reject button captions

Compliance requirements

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Cloud

Approval E-signatures

Reviewers need their user/email and password to sign-off.

(Cloud support for this feature is limited to OTP using a third party app )

Confluence audit logging

Full audit trail of key events (e.g., changes to configuration, templates, parameters, etc.) in the Confluence Audit Log.

Views navigation

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Draft and published views

Users can browse the work-in-progress version or the last approved version of a page

Draft restriction

Work-in-progress versions of pages can be restricted to users and/or groups

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In cloud, the workflow does not provide differentiation in users access between the work-in-progress versions and the last approved version of a page.
This can be managed by using a Comala Document Management workflow together with the
Comala Publishing app

Reporting

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Cloud

Page activity, space and user reports


Document Report (space-wide report) includes a filter for checking “My pending approvals”

CQL advanced searches

Integration with the advanced CQL search capabilities of Confluence.

Notifications

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Cloud

Email notifications

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Workbox notifications

(Note: Confluence does not provide an API for cloud notifications)

Custom notifications

Email, page messages, etc.

Tasks

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Cloud

Workflow tasks

Parameters

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Custom workflow parameters

Custom specified parameters, which values are editable and can be referenced from the workflows.

Space parameters

Parameters with a default value specified at space level

Custom

Reviewers and due date type

States

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Cloud

Add States

Modify State Names

Modify State Colours

Use colors to indicate important states, show rejected pages, specific approval roles...

Add Due Dates

Add due dates in any state

Expiration dates

Modify Due Dates

Change existing due dates

Initialize States

Transition all content for the associated workflow into a specific state within that workflow.

Page Layout

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Instructions

Messages to provide guidance to content creators about next steps after creating the page. 

Header and footer

Configuration

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Cloud

Global

Who can see drafts, require comments, page updates reset approvals.

Security options, default notifications for given workflow events.

Space

Draft visibility, internal page publishing settings

Clear history

 Internationalization (i18n)

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Cloud

i18n

Dutch, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Spanish

Integration

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Cloud

Third Party App Support

Communardo Metadata, K15t Versions, K15t Scroll PDF.

Comala Publishing app integration

Java API

REST API

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