Terminology
- Atlassian
- the company that developed Confluence and JIRA Software (and others), and offers it them as services as part of Atlassian Cloud
- Atlassian is an Australian company.
- Confluence
- a set of web pages with a style more suited for documentation/operations than marketing.
- a collaborative content-development environment.
- in an AgGateway context, it's "the wiki"
- a companion application to JIRA (single sign-on)
- JIRA
- a project-oriented task-management tool
- a companion application to Confluence (single sign-on)
- project
- a set of related tasks in JIRA
- every task in JIRA must be associated with a project
- space
- a collection of related wiki (Confluence) pages
- a space may have permissions assigned to it distinct from other spaces
- wiki
Key Concepts
- AgGateway's Atlassian Cloud service includes:
- Confluence ("the wiki")
- The wiki is composed of spaces.
- Spaces are composed of pages and each space has a root page.1
- Pages can have child pages. (Conversely, all pages except root pages have a single parent page.)
- Pages can have attachments
- JIRA Software ("JIRA"–don't know why it's in all caps)
- JIRA is composes of projects.
- Projects are composed of tasks.
1Technically a space may have more than one root page, but that situation is rare, is not obvious to accomplish, and is not important to the wiki user when such a situation exists (i.e., the user wouldn't know about it or care if they did know about it).