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Differences Between Comala Document Management and Comala Document Management Cloud
- Robert Alexander Marshall
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 of the apps.
There is also a complete feature matrix for all the apps in the Comala Document Management family of apps.
Need more help learning about the differences between Comala Document Management for Confluence Server/Data Center and Comala Document Management Cloud?
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Features
Comala Document Management (Server/Data Center) | Comala Document Management (Cloud) | |
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Workflows | ||
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 | Different range of trigger events, conditions and actions in Cloud | |
Approvals | Server | Cloud |
Approvals | ||
Minimum reviewers Set how many reviewers are needed to complete the approval. | ||
Limit reviewers Only user(s) and/or group(s) that can be assigned to a review and will be able to review the approval. It can be forced to have all the user(s) and/or group(s) to review the content. | Different range of functionality to limit reviewers in Cloud | |
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 review. I.e., limit who can assign users in an approval. | ||
Custom buttons labels Custom approve/reject button captions | ||
Compliance requirements | Server | 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 | Server | Cloud |
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 | ||
Reporting | Server | Cloud |
Page activity, space and user reports |
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CQL advanced searches Integration with the advanced CQL search capabilities of Confluence. | ||
Notifications | Server | Cloud |
Email notifications | ||
Workbox notifications (Note: Confluence does not provide an API for cloud notifications) | ||
Custom notifications Email, page messages, etc. | ||
Tasks | Server | Cloud |
Workflow tasks | ||
Parameters | Server | Cloud |
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 |
States | Server | 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 | Server | Cloud |
Instructions Messages to provide guidance to content creators about next steps after creating the page. | ||
Header and footer | ||
Configuration | Server | 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) | Server | Cloud |
i18n Dutch, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Spanish | ||
Integration | Server | Cloud |
Third Party App Support Communardo Metadata, K15t Versions, K15t Scroll PDF, Comala Publishing | ||
Java API | ||
REST API |