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Explore a side-by-side comparison of Confluence's native PDF exports vs. Scroll PDF Exporter ones. See how customizable templates can elevate your documentation.

K15t celebrated 15 years of awesome with great company, delicious food, and a surprise co-founder rap – here are the highlights!

Discover why PDFs remain essential in the digital age and how to enhance exports created from your Confluence documentation.

Empower your users with a fast, intuitive and intelligent help experience right in your Confluence-based help center.

K15t achieves ISO 27001:2022 certification, reaffirming our commitment to data security and trust. Learn about our security measures and how we protect your information.

Transforming outdated documentation practices into streamlined efficiency: Discover how the edoc team revolutionized their content management using just Confluence and K15t’s Scroll Apps.

PDFs don't have to be boring! From letterheads to presentations, browse the PDF Template Library to get inspiration for your next Confluence export.

Discover how a Belgian government department reduced JSM ticket resolution times and enhanced efficiency using Backbone Issue Sync for Jira. Learn about their digital transformation journey and the benefits they achieved.

Unlock the power of global collaboration on Jira with data residency and Backbone Issue Sync. Explore how Backbone Issue Sync empowers enterprises to work efficiently and securely across teams and projects, regardless of the geographical location.

Merging 4 companies is no easy task! See how Confluence and the Scroll Apps helped Emplifi's team navigate change, consolidate tools, and unite teams to provide customers with a great enablement experience.

Let's look back together and share a bit about what makes K15t's Team Weeks special.

Read on for the 2023 Scroll Apps recap: a look back at all the features, improvements, and highlights over the year. Get an early peek at what’s to come in 2024 and a variety of ways you can help shape the future of the Scroll Apps for Confluence.

Learn how NAGRA migrated their team to Atlassian Cloud and get inspired by the beautiful documentation portal they deliver to their customers today with Confluence and K15t’s Scroll Apps.

Discover how AppFox launched a beautiful and intuitive help center on Confluence with Scroll Viewport, backed by simple and seamless documentation process thanks to their Workflows app.

Explore Shinydocs' success story of elevating their content processes with the Scroll Apps for Confluence. From documentation and learning content, to sales and client engagement material, learn how Shinydocs delivers a seamless documentation experience for their team and customers.

Your users may be digging through incomplete, duplicate, and inaccurate information to find what they need. Follow these tips to learn how to create repositories for your product information.

Sync Jira Service Management tickets with other Jira or JSM projects to reduce the time to resolve customer requests. Synchronize comments, attachments, and workflows across projects using Backbone Issue Sync for Jira.

Curious about our latest company event? It was pretty cool!

Dive into the world of in-app messaging to communicate effectively with your customers. Learn how to masterfully keep users engaged, informed, and entertained without being intrusive.

When APTIS decided to redo the documentation for their flagship app, Epic Sum Up, their primary objective was to get rid of an unnecessarily complicated structure. They found what they were looking for with Scroll Viewport for Confluence.

K15t is thrilled to announce that our app Orderly Databases for Confluence has been acquired by Atlassian! Databases will soon become a core feature of the Confluence platform.

Learn why your business needs an ITSM solution and how opting for Atlassian's Jira Service Management (JSM) can add visibility and velocity to your workflows.

Learn how to make sure your users never miss a new feature or update with our guide to writing great release notes. Discover why this is such a critical part of your product communication and how you can get it right.

Ever wondered what it’s like to work at K15t? One of our working students, Ericka, shares her experience moving from Honduras to Germany, and how she’s able to balance her position at K15t with her university schedule.

At K15t, we are committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our workplace and beyond. As part of this commitment, we are proud to announce that we are participating in the Girls’ Day initiative.

When GlobalVision decided to redo their customer-facing help center, they knew the ideal starting point would be finding a tool that seamlessly integrated with Confluence. They found what they were looking for when they discovered Scroll Viewport for Confluence.

The information you create and share is an incredibly valuable and underrated part of the product development process. Learn how to identify any information weaknesses in your team along with a few tactics, tools, and habits you can use to correct them.

Collaboration across Confluence and Jira is now even better with the ability to preserve snapshots of Jira issues across versions of your Confluence documentation.

The ability to work abroad, it’s a benefit we’re passionate about. Check out the recent places where our colleagues have worked from!

Learn how a phased migration strategy, compared to other strategies, could help reduce the risk of data losses and prolonged downtimes.

2022 is wrapping up and the holidays are near, here’s an advent calendar and a raffle for you to bring some more cheer!

Atlassian Codegeist is back! And we took part. In this blog post, we want to tell you more about our projects for Atlassian’s hackathon 2022, along with how we built two new apps with Forge.

Scroll enables you to export documentation in Confluence to offline formats like PDF, Word, and HTML. In this article you’ll learn all about best practices and useful features of our Scroll Exporter apps, Scroll PDF Exporter, Scroll Word Exporter and Scroll HTML Exporter for Confluence Cloud.

Check out our Hacketse 26th edition!

For quite some time now, there has been an annual tradition at K15t: as soon as the leaves turn into a beautiful color for fall, we set out on a hiking adventure. This time we chose a destination in lofty heights together with our friends from Scandio.

A long-awaited social highlight for all colleagues at K15t is our Family & Friends party. This time, we even had a magical guest who enchanted not only the young children, but also the young at heart.

Learn about why migrating from Jira server to cloud could be a good idea for your business and how to begin the process.

Learn all about what K15t did for their company outing to the beautiful city of Heidelberg

Find out why Team Week is the most important week every quarter for K15t

Manage and publish multilingual content on Confluence Cloud so it’s readily available for users to consume in their own language.

There are tricks to winning Hacketse at K15t. Sometimes all you need is a little imagination

Use Backbone to collaborate better on Jira projects across instances using synchronized Jira version control.

Did you know that K15t also has a range of completely free Atlassian Marketplace apps? Check out K15t's Labs apps.

Learn how to transform your team’s simple Confluence workspace into a fully-featured documentation solution.

After the team saddled up and donned their wheels, see what went down at K15t's Bike to Work Day.

Learn how to use qualitative and quantitative data together to improve your product documentation.

See how a phased migration strategy, in comparison to "big bang", could help you reduce the risk of data loss and prolonged downtimes.

Were you not able to attend Atlassian Team '22? We catch you up on all the news Atlassian announced at the conference

While everyone is encouraged to work remotely at K15t, we still felt the need for personal connections. That is why we made Team Week.

With an increased focus on our app business, we found a new way to connect teams with our new Scroll app.

After being an Atlassian Solution Partner for over 11 years, K15t’s consulting unit will soon become part of our long-term partner and friends at Scandio.

Get the most out of Team '22 – Atlassian’s flagship hybrid conference – and discover solutions, skills, and ideas to unleash your team's potential.

Important announcement regarding what we are doing to support the people of Ukraine.

Get the right information in front of the right audience by managing conditional content on Confluence Cloud!

New app alert! Orderly Databases brings structured content to Confluence.

Advent calendars aren't just for Christmas! As you've made it onto the "nice" list, here's where you can find Confluence best practice content to last the whole year.

At K15t we value dedicated innovation time for every colleague. In this blog post we want to tell you more about our Atlassian Codegeist project 2021 and how we succeeded there as a team.

Find out how the Easy Agile team kept on top of their documentation for their entire suite of apps and upgraded their customer support by implementing a new, user-friendly help center.

Learn how to publish your product documentation as a restricted help center where you control who has access.

The Adaptavist team aligned ~30 public help center spaces into one central help center built with Scroll Viewport. See how they did it.

K15t's Team Week is a new, colorful and innovative way of working together that we embarked on as one big team just in time for the end of summer. In this blog post, we look back on the many great highlights and challenges.

When writing documentation, it's easy to overestimate what your customers know about your products and miss out key information. Provide customers with a way to give feedback on your content to capture valuable insight to improve it.

Heavy rain, flooding and corona measures couldn't keep our spirits down! Even with some adversity, the K15t team was able to finally reunite this summer at Stuttgart's 'Riverhouse' on the Neckar.

Can advice given by a soccer and NFL coach be applied within a software team? Yes! It doesn't matter where you work – teams are teams. We're stronger when we work together. Here are 5 pieces of advice to bring into play in your team.

Ever wondered what it's like to work at K15t? Jasmin shares her experiences as a working student at K15t and what impact the company culture has on her work.

Writing content in Confluence Cloud is easy. Writing quality content and keeping it consistent across your team is the tough part. Ready to give your copy editors a rest? Scroll Content Quality is here to help.

Atlassian Team '21 is the premier conference for modern teamwork. Whether your team is just starting plan your cloud migration, or you've already migrated and want tips on how to improve your setup, here are five 'Journey to the Cloud' sessions worth watching at Team '21.

Learn how to consistently meet quality and compliance standards when exporting your Confluence documentation with these preset export templates.

With powerful collaboration tools like Confluence, writing as a team has never been more accessible. But collaborating has its challenges. In this article you'll learn how to work through some common growing pains to become a better writer and a stronger team.

Ever wondered what it's like to work at K15t? Valentina shares her experiences as an IT consultant at K15t and what impact the company culture has on her work.

Learn how to leverage the knowledge your team has about your users and their needs to transform your dry product documentation into a powerful and intuitive collection of help topics.

The versioning and document management power of Scroll Documents meets the styling and publishing flexibility of Scroll Viewport! Watch the video to learn how these apps work together to offer you a complete documentation solution on Confluence Cloud.

Ever wondered what it's like to work at K15t? Elrasheed shares his journey as a software developer at K15t and what impact the company culture has on his work.

Great documentation helps you build a base of happy, successful, and self-sufficient users. But how you choose to structure your content will have a big impact on both your users and the team members who write and contribute to the docs.

Atlassian announced major changes to its Server and Data Center offerings, which heavily impact many long-term users of Atlassian software. It's a bold move, but we think it's the right step into the future. Here are the actions your team should take right now to help ease this transition.

For the tenth year in a row we are participating in the tekom/tcworld conference, this year for the first time virtually. Read our tips on how to get the most out of the event and meet us to learn more about technical communication with Enlite.

Learn how K15t builds its roadmaps by reading our blog post about building a roadmap template in Confluence.

See how K15t's company culture continues to shine through since we've been working remotely.

Summer, sun, beach, and more – this year, we spent our annual company outing in a different way.

Discover the top 5 reasons why you should create a help center for your users, using the documentation you already have in Confluence.

Scroll Viewport is now available on Confluence Cloud. You can now easily create a help center for your users, using the documentation you have in Confluence.

Shannon shares her journey as an app marketer at K15t and how the company culture, Atlassian tools, and self-organized team structures have shaped the way she thinks about work.

How K15t is taking big steps to contribute our small part in stopping the spread of the Coronavirus – and how we're making the best of it!

As we've been going to Atlassian Summit for over 10 years now, we know a lot about what to expect. Check out our recommendations and top tips so that you can get the most of your time at Summit!

Document control systems don't have to be complicated, and industry regulations shouldn't hold your team back. Get more control and traceability in Confluence with features like versioning, approvals, change tracking, and more.

Every company likes to say they have a ‘great company culture’, but what actually makes it so great? Here's what it's like to work at K15t. If you like the sound of it, apply to join our team!

Learn how to create better proposals in Confluence, including tips on how to prepare your document, save versions to track revisions, and export the proposal as a beautiful PDF or Word document to help your submission stand out.

Need to lock your Confluence pages? Here's what you need to know about handling Confluence page restrictions and how to apply advanced restrictions when your content spans multiple pages.

When you think of Atlassian, maybe time tracking and team collaboration software spring to mind. So you might be wondering how Atlassian’s connection to a charity helping those in Syria came about…

Learn about how we hire at K15t

When you need to make your Confluence documentation, manuals, user guides, or other documents publicly available, Scroll Documents and Scroll Viewport can help.

Now any team can quickly create a help center from Confluence using the new Help Center theme in Scroll Viewport. Create a custom help experience without writing code.

Learn how to effectively manage milestones and track changes to multi-page documents in Confluence like proposals, contracts, manuals, and more.

Be more productive and save precious time in Confluence with these helpful shortcuts for all users.

Backbone Issue Sync for Jira offers a Java API which you can use to write your own transformations between two Jira fields and configure them via Backbone's UI.

Are you also exploring the possibility of remote work in your team? Here are three things we've identified that you need to nail both as a remote worker and as a company if you want to be successful.

Confluence is a company-wide wiki from Atlassian where your team can collaborate. Get started using Confluence quickly and avoid issues with these 5 tips.

Save time, review in context, and tighten the feedback loop by being able to see and resolve inline comments while you edit content in Confluence.

For the third year in a row, K15t participated in Bike to Work Day, a global event that encourages a fun, healthy commute to the office and promises to add a few new regulars to our growing K15t cycling community.

Extend what Scroll Versions and Scroll Translations can do for your team.

Your guide for collaboration and documentation in Confluence.

Working with longer content and documents can be tricky in Confluence. Scroll Documents empowers users to control versions, manage workflows and approvals, track changes, and effectively manage their documents in Confluence.

Using a streamlined development, test and trial setup on your local machine for Jira and Confluence Server or Data Center can quickly save you hours of waiting around.

With the size of Atlassian Summit, deciding what you're going to do during the conference can be a bit overwhelming. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your trip!

A new version of the Atlassian Confluence Editor is out. We've taken a look at the new editing experience to share how things will change in Confluence Cloud over the upcoming months.

After years of working with Confluence, we've come to value a handful of features in particular. Learn which features we find the most useful and why you should start using them, too.

It's essential to think about which software users should be given which type of permissions. After years of configuring Jira projects, we've collected the most valuable tips when it comes to defining permissions in Jira.

Git is the most popular version control system for collaborative software development. How is it doing right now and how will it develop in the future?

What happened to the old K15t design? CEO Stefan tells the story beyond the change from his personal perspective.

Ready to amplify your documentation experience? Here's some inspiration as you make your technical writing New Year's resolutions.

Check out the big changes in the technical writing industry and discover brand new solutions for better teamwork

How do I combine technology and teamwork in a meaningful way? Our very first TeamTalk held in our office in Stuttgart exposed thought provoking answers to this and other questions.

Working with Jira is always a good idea, but deciding which version of the tool is the one for your use case can be tricky. To help, we've summarized all the different features for you to figure out which Jira solution works for your team.

The way we work is changing in almost every profession. But what does the future hold for the techcomm community? Read about the challenges the industry is facing and how a new focus on collaboration will change technical documentation for good.

Looking to collaborate on Jira across different instances? Struggling to get partners to install apps? Backbone's remote license lets you sync issues with no app install needed on their side!

PDF continues to be the go-to format for organizations to share and distribute business documents, so it's essential that Confluence provide a quick and customizable PDF export option. See how Scroll PDF Exporter measures up against Confluence's native PDF export functionality.

Scroll Versions 3.11 introduces content reuse across versioned or translated spaces. Learn about the new Include Library and how to benefit from the updated Include+ macro.

Content reuse helps technical writers create high quality documentation faster and facilitates updates and translation of content. Learn why you need a content reuse strategy and how to get started using tools that Confluence offers out of the box.

Ever wondered how to manage content that's really too long for a single Confluence page? Breaking it up brings big benefits for authors, content managers, and readers alike.

Each year, the K15t team goes on an adventure known as the Company Outing. This time around, we hiked, tobogganed, and swam our way through the Black Forest, enjoying the sites along the way. Read all about what the team got up to.

Scroll PDF Exporter 4.4 introduces fresh styling and navigation functionality to give users new options for exporting their Confluence content as professionally-styled PDFs.

The K15t Hacketse always promises to produce some awesome projects – and occasionally a surprise or two. Read on for a recap of our latest Hacketse, everyone's favorite K15t event.

We're gearing up for Atlassian Summit Barcelona and want to help you prep for Atlassian's biggest event of the year. Here's how to amplify your Summit experience – from session highlights and must-see keynotes, to Atlas Camp, and a few exciting surprises of our own!

Scroll ImageMap brings Confluence images to life, by adding clickable link areas and mouseover tooltips that engage and inform, making them a powerful way to visually communicate information. We've recently been focusing on further improving the app's usability to make adding interactivity to Confluence images even simpler.

Scroll PDF Exporter 4.2 introduces fresh styling and administrative features focused on giving users more control over their Confluence exports.

Jira workflows are flexible enough for the vast majority of scenarios, but occasionally, they just can't do what you need. However, Jira issue synchronization can extend workflows to cover even more use cases – find out how.

What do you get when you combine 27 participants, 10 creative ideas, 24 hours, and a kitchen full of pizza? A K15t Hacketse of course!

K15t co-founder and CEO, Stefan Kleineikenscheidt, tells his personal story of growing a career in IT, being inspired by new ideas and technology, meeting co-founder Tobias Anstett, and founding K15t.

Context-sensitive help offers users the help content they need, when and where they need it – and Confluence is the perfect platform for managing it.

The openness of Jira is a strength, but limiting transparency between partners is tricky. See how to solve this by synchronizing Jira data across projects.

From ShipIt Live victory all the way to the Atlassian Marketplace, we share the valuable lessons learned as we sunset Conversations for Confluence.

The term 'data driven' is thrown into just about every best practice process one hears about these days. Thankfully it's more than just meaningless buzz – but what does it mean when applied to a self service portal such as a help center website? How does one decide what self service analytics to look at, and what conclusions to draw?

Scroll PDF Exporter has gotten some big improvements of late. With full styling control, custom fonts, and even a Comala Workflows integration, now every user can turn Confluence content into beautiful PDFs.

Scroll Document Versions has been relaunched as Scroll Documents for Confluence Cloud, adding powerful new functionality for multi-page document management.

Backbone Issue Sync for Jira, the leading Atlassian Marketplace app dedicated to Jira to Jira synchronization, now supports Cloud to Cloud integrations natively. This means that Jira Cloud users can now take advantage of the app's intuitive setup and robust synchronization flexibility to synchronize issue data.

Tekom/TCWorld, the world's largest technical communication conference, wrapped up last week. Our resident tech writer Tom highlights a few points of interest.

Does your text editor help you track, review, revise, and make your business letters look professional? Confluence can.

Add-on Discovery Day 2017 gave an engaging look at what can be accomplished by extending the core Atlassian tools. If you missed it or want to share the day's presentations from K15t Software, look no further.

Write the Docs Prague 2017 is a three-day conference where some of the brightest minds in techcomm get together and discuss the field's hottest topics. I picked up a bunch of handy tips at the event – here are some personal highlights.

It's the final sprint of our preparation for the big show: Atlassian Summit US September 12th–14th. Summit always showcases the newest trends and technology in the ever growing world of Atlassian-powered teamwork, and this year will be no exception.

As Content Marketing Manager, documenting how our publishing process works is part of the job. This also includes writing instructions on how to use content tools in their context. I recently stumbled across a quick and easy solution to accomplish the creation of these instructions in Confluence – StepShot for Confluence. To save you some trouble next time you take on such a task, I thought I'd share my experience in using this tool.

There is no substitute for face-to-face discussion, not even with collaborative editing in Confluence. But what if we could combine the two?

Want to manage various kinds of documents in one Confluence space? As their histories and structures change you'll need a simple way to keep track. Scroll Documents, new for Confluence Cloud, makes it easy.

We have held ten hackathons over a period of three years, and until last week, we've never had two winners.

Davin recently kicked off K15t's first official Bike to Work Day. We'll talk a little bit about why and how.

Most editorial calendar tools only report on analytic parameters – distribution channels, due dates, etc. But content creators should consider using synergetic tools which will also allow them to manage the creative side of an editorial calendar. Here's how we do it.

Much has been written about the habits of effective and successful teams. Very few articles actually talk about how to develop them. This blog post aims to fill that gap.

In this post, I'll share five techniques our teams here at K15t have adopted to align the efforts of tech writers and marketers in support of one another. Together they constitute a light and fast approach to making changes that aren't big, difficult, or complicated. They're about teaching your old docs new tricks.

Tuesday's technical documentation conference in Munich featured many interesting topics – such as digitalization, connectivity, and creative writing – but two technologies really took center stage: virtual and augmented reality. Will they change the techcomm industry?

Why is Confluence our tool of choice when it comes to documenting UX design concepts and why should you use it? The answer: collaboration, flexibility and a single source of truth.

Nowadays, translators use software to make their daily work easier and it's quickly becoming obvious that a standardized file format is needed. XLIFF is an odds-on favorite for making translation files universally practical.

Some of our team members recently took advantage of K15t Software's Pledge 1% partnership to spend a sunny afternoon cleaning up Stuttgart's forest trails.

Writing high-quality content (no matter what type) is extremely difficult, but using automated content optimization can definitely help you tackle this challenge. I'd even go so far as to claim that optimization tools are part of a great writing process. Why? Read on to find out.

Confluence is a leader in the content collaboration tool space, allowing entire organizations to access and contribute to information within a single centralized knowledge hub. Sometimes however, Confluence users need to export this documented knowledge as PDFs to fulfill business requirements. Here are four important factors to consider before choosing a Confluence PDF exporter.

A few photos and thoughts from a packed marathon week at the first-ever Atlassian Summit Europe – see what stood out for us in Barcelona.

No one knows what the future of technical writing looks like. You can however get a pretty good idea if you have a look at the characteristics and philosophies of the people who are newly entering the profession. As a teacher of technical writers, I get to see generation Y in action all the time and perhaps my observations about their ideas and reactions to different editorial systems are an indicator of what is to come.

Right in time for the kickoff of the first Atlassian Summit Europe, we're releasing a major user experience overhaul of one of the Marketplace's best selling add-ons: Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence Server. Now, everyone can quickly and easily create templates to export Confluence content as richly-styled PDFs. Credit goes to the new visual template editor in Scroll PDF Exporter 4.0, with a real-time preview and fine-grained control over the styling and export properties of Confluence-based PDF documents.

As the technical lead in charge of Backbone's JIRA Data Center compatibility implementation, Matthias would like to take you behind the scenes and share how he solved some tricky development challenges.

The time of wikis' widespread popularity are long gone. And yet, the enterprise wiki Atlassian Confluence is more popular than ever. Our guest author found six reasons why this isn't a contradiction and may have unearthed the secret recipe behind Confluence's trend-bucking success.

We started using HipChat a few years ago and it has been working like a charm – no wonder chat apps are experiencing tremendous growth. While live chat helps us keep up, it can also be a source of constant distraction – detrimental when you need to get things done.

Tekom OpenLab 2017 – a one-day 'unconference' where techcomm enthusiasts meet to discuss the industry's hottest topics. And because sharing is caring, I'm excited to share some pointers I picked up in this short summary.

Between the massive Summit conference, and the AtlasCamp developer event that directly follows, nearly 20 of us will make the journey from Germany with big product release news and even some secret 'skunkworks' products to demo on May 2nd–5th.

If you're a Confluence user you have probably tried to create a template for blog posts. Unfortunately, Confluence doesn't support them. Don't worry though, I came up with a solution that everyone can implement.

Teams working on large-scale projects that span across departments and B2B borders need tools that enable everyone to be on the same page at the same time. With its latest release, Backbone Issue Sync 3.2 is now compatible with JIRA Data Center providing the uninterrupted stability and data synchronization enterprises need to ensure their teams keep moving forward.

The gap between technical communicators and content marketers can be a daunting one, but the benefits realized by building the bridge makes it well worth the effort.

Giving images in a collaboration platform new life with interactivity can help all kinds of teams work better together – and we have three examples that prove it right here in our own office using Confluence and the Scroll ImageMap add-on.

The latest K15t hackathon just wrapped, boasting 22 participants and ten projects. With a time constraint of 24 hours, every team worked hard to get their great ideas shipped out the door. Here's a look at the three highest voted projects.

Employee handbooks are a valuable resource for employees and employers alike. That's why it's important to make them accessible and keep them up-to-date. I have administered quite a few employee handbooks throughout my career, and this post explores the differences between the Microsoft Word-based approach I used in the past and my current, Confluence-based approach to writing employee handbooks.

An employee handbook is an important business document. There are many reasons for having one and at least as many articles on the web that discuss them. So, instead of reiterating arguments others have already made, I'd like to discuss how an employee handbook can help build company culture.

Techcomm and content teams often have a dysfunctional relationship even though they have the potential to be more effective at achieving their goals by understanding and working together. In the first part of this four-part blog series I will explore the reasons for the gap between techcomm and content marketing teams.

Nov. 28, 2017 Update: Today Backbone Issue Sync for Jira has added native support for cloud-to-cloud data synchronization. This now makes the workaround described in this blog post unnecessary. Happy collaborating!

There are lots of blog posts that talk about why and how companies host hackathons. This is not one of those. This blog post provides a practical guide and checklist that helped me organize our upcoming hackathon. To help out all those other hackathon-organizers out there, I thought I'd share my experience and checklist.

In most cases, IT support teams utilize one JIRA Service Management instance to manage multiple service desks. This method works perfectly most of the time – but not always.

K15t Software regularly stages hackathons, which I participate in. But how do you go about a hackathon project? What do you start with? How do you decide what you can and cannot achieve? I will answer these questions by guiding you through my own hackathon project.

The point of providing IT support is to make your customers' lives as easy as possible. However, for key account customers who need extensive help from your support team, creating lots of tickets in your ITSM instead of their system is a pain point. Time for a solution.

There are multiple tools that export Confluence pages to Word. I examined how Confluence's built-in exporter compares to the Scroll Word Exporter app. There are four major differences.

Sharing passwords with team members can compromise company security. Unfortunately, many teams have to. In this article, I want to demonstrate how the K15t team manages and shares passwords without compromising security.

Matt Reiner, content strategist at NimbleUser, explains why he championed the transition from writing technical documentation in DITA to writing with Confluence and Scroll Versions in this guest blog post.

It’s an age-old question: how can 1st-level support teams using JIRA Service Desk and 2nd-level tech support teams using a seperate JIRA instance communicate more efficiently? Backbone 3.1 aims to do exactly that so that you can concentrate on what really matters: solving customers tickets.

Do you use WordPress to run your blog or website? If so you'll wish you had known about this years ago... I certainly did.

In Nov 2016, we asked our TC World Conference booth visitors how they think technical editorial departments and bordering departments work together. Who works together with whom and what is especially important to those involved?

Delivering UI design specifications to developers can be painful. Read on to find out how I improved this process using Sketch, Jira tickets and a new add-on called Inspector Sketch.

At the end of a successful year, we want to thank you for collaborating with us by sharing a little bit of cheer: K15t Software is proud to present you with a free sticker pack for iMessage and Telegram featuring our rocketcorn mascot. Happy Holidays!

Updated March 1, 2017: K15t Software is proud to announce the release of Scroll Versions 3.4 and Scroll Translations 3.4 . Both add-ons are now compatible with Confluence 6.

Scroll ImageMap 2.0 introduces lots of UX changes over the old ImageMap Macro for Confluence. Click on to see first-hand what's new.

Last week, we hosted our final 24-hour 'Hacketse' hackathon of 2016 – with a bigger and stronger range of competitors than ever before. Check out our wrap-up, and find out who lifted the winners' trophy this time around.

Last week, we held our fourth Dev Together meet-up, where we learned about how the Atlassian JIRA team balances complexity and power in its software. The talk was given by Dave Meyer, one of Atlassian's Senior Product Managers, who we welcomed all the way from Australia.

Backbone Issue Sync 3.0 for JIRA is now live on the Atlassian Marketplace. This new release supports firewall-friendly distributed integrations, which save you time and trouble when configuring project synchronizations between firewall-protected JIRA instances.

Scroll Versions 3.3 for Confluence is live now on the Atlassian Marketplace . This major release of the popular version and variant management add-on features advanced Comala Workflows integration – letting you leverage powerful workflows to achieve great results even in complex versioned content projects.

Join us for the fourth Dev Together meetup at our Stuttgart HQ, where we'll welcome Atlassian's Dave Meyer all the way from Sydney, Australia.

Just announced: demo – with support from Acrolinx – at the K15t Software booth at tekom/tcworld 2016. It's one of many ways you're invited to connect with us at the conference.

K15t Software will have a big presence at tekom/tcworld once again – and this time we're announcing a groundbreaking new solution that lets teams doc better together. We'd love to meet you at our booth if you're headed to the show.

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IT requires creative, communicative and flexible people. So why are there so few women working in IT? Join us for a documentary screening on Oct 26th, 2016 to find out.

Backbone Issue Sync 2.3 from K15t is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace. This latest release features the new Suggestions tool, which makes configuring cross-border JIRA synchronization even quicker and more intuitive – letting your team work rapidly and with confidence.

This story is about a young man's volunteer experience – it explores why giving can also mean receiving. Taking time to do good for others is something the K15t team strongly believes in, and we're proud to have been a small part of this story.

Atlassian Summit 2016 is only a few short weeks away, and this year K15t is stepping up as a proud platinum sponsor of the biggest event of the year for the Atlassian ecosystem.

K15t proudly introduces Scroll ImageMap 2.0, a handy add-on that brings Confluence images to life with multiple clickable link areas and mouseover tooltip regions. With its intuitive graphic editor, ImageMap makes it easy to define circles, rectangles, or complex polygons as clickable regions, and make your Confluence images an engaging, informative experience.

A few weeks ago, we had our seventh 24-hour Hacketse hackathon – once again, we brainstormed, developed, and realized some fantastic ideas.

For many companies – including Nintendo, BMW, Moody's and Lufthansajust to name a few – Atlassian Confluence is the platform of choice for documentation. Yet while this wiki-based approach to technical content is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds, there are still plenty of misconceptions floating around on the web about tech doc wikis.

Summer is in full swing here in Germany – and while beer garden visits are a lot more fun when it's warm in the evening, the K15t team is still hard at work building great collaboration software every day.

The best translation and language management add-on for Atlassian Confluence has new functionality: Scroll Translations 3.2 is live on the Atlassian Marketplace – upgrade your version now or try it out for free.

Every day, the staff at K15t work hard together as a team, and that sense of camaraderie and teamwork doesn't end at the office doors. On Friday, June 10th, the K15t Software office was closed as we all piled into a bus and headed for the German Alps once again.

There is a distinct lack of women and minorities in the tech industry in general, and in computer science in particular. What are the reasons behind this gap?

Are you Backbone -curious? Missed out on previous webinars perhaps? Let's shed some light: get an up-close-and-personal look at Backbone Issue Sync direct from the lead developers on the project on June 15th.

The Scroll Add-ons for Atlassian Confluence power painless content collaboration, and in many organizations that means taking the DocOps approach for technical communication. Check out some fresh news on how several companies are using Scroll Add-ons to do their documentation the agile way.

Backbone Issue Sync 2.1 is live, making server-to-cloud JIRA issue synchronization possible for the first time.

AtlasCamp is just a few short days away, and we've got some big news. Here's what brings us to Barcelona this year.

Don't miss out on the finale of K15t's whirlwind USA speaking tour – join us at Medidata HQ on May 18th for our first-ever event in New York City.

Bridge the information gap and collaborate on projects across departmental and B2B borders – Backbone Issue Sync for JIRA is available now in the Atlassian Marketplace .

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Development of our upcoming JIRA synchronization add-on, Backbone, is in the home stretch. We think it's the perfect time to reveal a bit of the configuration UI and explain what it can do. Take a look below at four of the config UI's screens, and gain insight into some of Backbone's core JIRA syncing functionality.

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Our first 24-hour hackathon of 2016 took place on March 10 and 11, and great things were made – quickly. Check out our wrap-up, and find out who was on the winners' podium this time around.

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Managing controlled documents such as software specifications, plans, or collaboratively-edited contracts isn’t easy at the best of times. And it’s harder yet if multiple stakeholders from different organizations are involved: project managers, engineers, QA, legal etc. Thankfully, there is a better way. . .

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Welcome to the final part of our look at what's new in Scroll Versions 3.0: features to dramatically enhance your publishing capability.

Scroll Versions 3.0 is live in the Atlassian Marketplace, and it boasts a range of new features and functionality. Today, we'll examine some features that give you unprecedented control over your content management: version-based editing permissions, modular configuration. . .

Our most popular exporters just got a flexibility upgrade, allowing the exporting of Confluence content in two new ways: task list export in all Scroll Exporters, and table cell highlighting in Office.

K15t Software's fifth Atlassian-rules 24-hour hackathon happened just before the holidays in 2015, and the dust has finally settled enough for us to tell the tale.

With 4,200 participants from 48 countries, the tekom Jahrestagung (TCWorld Conference) is at the forefront of technical communication, and we're blessed to have it right in our home city of Stuttgart, Germany.

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An exciting and exhausting Atlassian Summit 2015 is now in the books, and with much fanfare it outlined how the company is working to make teams smarter, better, faster, and stronger.

Is your strategy for the tekom/tcworld Conference dialed in and ready to roll? Since tekom is the world’s largest technical communication summit, qualification event, and trade fair, your plan is worth a bit of thought. And as you’ll soon learn, the event has several traits that make it particularly German in character: it's well organized, business driven, and has a strong focus on factual content. We hope we can make it a more enjoyable experience for you, with our unofficially-definitive tekom/tcworld Conference Guide featuring six pro tips from guest blogger and tekom veteran Martin Häberle .

We're just a few weeks away from Atlassian Summit 2015, and this year K15t Software is bringing new product news, demos, and lots of friendly faces with us from Stuttgart to the Big Powwow by the Bay.

Last Wednesday we threw open the K15t doors to friends, family, partners, and customers to help us warm our new office in Stuttgart, and it was a grand time if we do say so ourselves. Check out some scenes from the event after the jump.

“No one reads documentation, and nobody gives feedback on it.” This phrase is bad news for technical communicators – but it’s not the whole story. What actually happens in reality hinges on the way we manage and distribute technical content. (Protip: Host it on the web and invite everyone to get involved). This is the second part in our blog post series about the benefits of crowd-enabled documentation using a collaborative approach. In this post you’ll learn how to get readers’ feedback on documentation easily by building collaborative web-based help content that allows technical communicators to elevate the quality of their work to the next level.

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We've now had a week to reflect on our K15t Out-of-Office Adventure, and the unanimous verdict is in: We can't wait to start planning the next one!

For a long time, technical writing was like driving down a one-way street. We’ve sent information into one direction, and nothing came back. But since the age of the Web 2.0, this approach is no longer a best practice. Today, being a technical writer means to communicate and to interact with everyone involved – including our readers. Building documentation heavily depends on feedback, and it’s an iterative process – more like a traffic circle. New processes require new technology – it’s time to move from publishing tools to collaboration platforms. This blogpost is part of a series about feedback in technical communication, In this article, read why receiving feedback is crucial to create helpful technical content and how a web-based collaboration platform can enable both internal feedback and customer feedback.

Last week we had the third Dev Together event at K15t Software. It was a great opportunity for us to bring together Atlassian users, customers & friends to our new office situated in the lovely East End of Stuttgart.

.We would like to invite you the next installment of our Dev Together event series on June 16th, 2015 at 18:00 at our new office in Ostendstr. 110, Stuttgart. This time Dave Meyer of Atlassian and Thomas Büschgens of W&W Informatik GmbH will talk about how they use JIRA. Join us for the talks and for drinks and pizzas afterwards.

Oops, we did it again – and we love it: Creating awesome stuff within 24 hours. Some of us were coding almost the whole night to make our ideas come to life. Here's how we spent our third, Atlassian-rules hackathon that took place in the K15t Software office. And, of course, we've got a winning team: congratulations to Eugen, Maximilian, and Tobias who have built and demoed an awesome multi-layer image map editor for Confluence!

Today, I'd like to share with you a little secret about Scroll Translations. It’s the Confluence add-on which lets you manage Confluence content in multiple languages within a single space. This makes it simple to add page translations. But how about page templates and blueprints? Does the same apply to them? The answer is yes. It's not only possible to create multilingual page templates – it’s easy. In this blogpost, I'll show you how to modify the troubleshooting blueprint (or any other page template) and make it speak in foreign tongues.

The Scroll Viewport 2.1 release is dedicated to all the viewport theme developers out there! Creating and editing viewport themes is now easier than ever (forget FTP!). Here are six reasons why you folks (not only theme developers!) should embrace Scroll Viewport 2.1 – the latest version of an add-on for Confluence that's also a framework for delivering Confluence content even simpler and faster to the web.

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Bringing people together in a collaboration platform like Atlassian Confluence also means transferring your legacy content from multiple information silos. These repositories often contain important information that you can’t afford to leave by the wayside when building a new corporate knowledge base. In many cases, legacy content is only available as HTML files, such as online help resources or intranet pages. Is there a way to bring these assets into Confluence efficiently? Yes – but there is no one-size-fits-all method. There are three main approaches to importing a collection of static HTML pages. Your individual needs will determine which is best for you.

Learn how to build a glossary in Confluence to ensure terminology consistency. What’s more, we'll show you a way to check your Confluence content for terminology and writing style.

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The inline comments functionality allows users to review Confluence pages line by line and add comments on selected words, phrases, or entire paragraphs. Once you've added your feedback, you can resolve comments simply by clicking 'Resolve'.

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On December 16, James Turcotte, SVP, Business Unit Executive of CA Technologies, gave a presentation on how Computer Associates keeps product documentation updated and improves turn-over time. In this presentation, James coined the term DocOps, describing it as the sibling of DevOps. Support agents, developers and, of course, technical communicators cooperate to deliver value to the customer. They do this by continuously improving documentation and knowledge management, even after release. We are delighted that our very own Scroll Versions enabled them to manage their content in Confluence.

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the HipChat blog: “How to Use HipChat to Collaborate and Build Culture”

tcworld Conference 2014, the world's largest technical communication conference and fair, is over! Now it's time to say 'Thank you' to all who visited us at our booth, and to have a look back on three exciting days in Stuttgart, Germany – full of insightful discussions, new Scroll content management add-ons, live demos, our techcomm survey, and free t-shirts.

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Last week, we held a developer event here at the K15t Software office. It was a wonderful evening with our customers and friends enjoying pizza, drinks, and expert talks from Atlassian. Here are the presentation slides and video recordings.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Valiantys blog: "Spreadsheets for Confluence 1.0: Filtering, Sorting, and Excel Import"

Last friday, our office was closed for a special reason: We were out on this year's K15t Software team event, and we had a great time together at the beautiful Allgäu area near Oberstdorf, located in the German Alps. Get some impressions of this awesome two-day trip.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Antti Hietala: "The Incredible Editable Screenshot"

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from our blog: "Export Beautiful Code Examples from Confluence to PDF"

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story is from the Atlassian Summit Video Archive.

You are very welcome to visit the K15t Software office on October 30th, 2014. We're happy to present talks from Joseph Clark and Sarah Goff-Dupont of Atlassian. Join us for a few drinks – and get a productivity boost.

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Atlassian blogs: "Answers, Meet Questions"

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Two weeks ago during the Atlassian Summit 2014 in San Jose, we announced that Atlassian technical writers are using Scroll Versions for their product documentation (read full customer story). But not only that – tech writers Rachel Robins and Christine Burwinkle joined us at the Summit to explain to Summit attendees of how they are using Scroll Versions. If you could not make it to Summit (or missed out Rachel and Christine) we have now a video interview available here.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Hanna Korhonen in the NorthPatrol blog: "Confluence Challenges SharePoint as an Intranet Platform"

We had a wonderful time at the Atlassian Summit 2014 in San Jose. It was the largest Atlassian event ever held – and it exceeded all our expectations. The summit united Atlassian customers, experts and add-on developers for Confluence, JIRA and other Atlassian products from all over the world. In this blog post, we explain why we’re giving the Atlassian Summit 2014 a five-star rating.

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We're proud to announce that Atlassian uses Scroll Versions for managing their product documentation. Learn how K15t Software and our Confluence add-on Scroll Versions helps Atlassian technical writers keep pace with agile development teams.

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7 common mistakes made by organizations when using Atlassian Confluence for collaborative knowledge management and documentation – and how to avoid them.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story is a microsite from Dozuki: "Tech Writing Handbook"

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Valiantys blog: "Scroll Office: Author in Confluence, add styles in Word"

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Atlassian: "Confluence Tip of the Month: Shares Vs. @Mentions"

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, content strategists, and software developers. This week's top story from K15t Software: "That's Git! – Impressions From Our K15t Expert Talks (Video)"

My day-to-day work here at K15t Software involves regular contact with users of our Scroll Content Management add-ons. I provide troubleshooting tips and workarounds tailored to their use cases. However, sometimes the tables are turned – and it’s the customers who give me great ideas. A while back, in fact, a Scroll Versions user came up with an innovative way to use variant management functionality for workflows. Let's take a closer look at how this can be achieved.

Last week, the K15t Office was crowded more than usual. We had invited you for a free introduction to Git and its toolchain integration and to have a nice evening with us. See the presentation slides as well as some photo impressions of that awesome event, and videos of the two talks.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, content strategists, and software developers. This week's top story from Tobias Anstett: "Build Amazing Add-ons for Atlassian JIRA and Confluence"

When it comes to finding an authoring and single-source publishing environment, often Wiki-based documentation (e.g. with Atlassian Confluence) and structured XML authoring (usually with DITA) are compared. This blogpost outlines the different use cases of wiki-based documentation versus XML-enabled structured authoring. But there's also one thing both approaches have in common.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Tobias Anstett: "K15t Software is Now a Recognized Atlassian Platinum Expert"

When we launched K15t Software back in 2009, our vision was to become a kick-ass software company developing great add-ons for content management – and from what we hear from our customers and partners, we've succeeded. As Atlassian Experts, we also help enterprises to get the most out of Confluence, JIRA, and all of Atlassian's other products. So today I'm delighted to announce that K15t Software is now an officially recognized Atlassian Platinum Expert.

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The most common complaint against (enterprise) wikis such as Atlassian Confluence is that they lack structure – and not just for technical documentation. This blog post explains how you can create semantic structures for Confluence content.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Tom Johnson (I'd Rather Be Writing): "Strategies for content re-use in Confluence"

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Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Acrolinx: "Speak With One Voice! Integrating the Acrolinx Content Optimization Platform into Atlassian Confluence using the Scroll Acrolinx Connector"

Today we are proud to announce another Scroll content management add-on that helps you improve the quality and consistency of your Confluence content: Scroll Acrolinx Connector.

If you’d like to see our Scroll Content Management add-ons in action, join us at the catWorkX Midsummer Day 2014 in Hamburg on Friday, June 27. At this event, K15t founder Stefan Kleineikenscheidt will give a live tool presentation to showcase our Scroll Content Management add-ons. And he’ll be back later in the day to explain how you can use Confluence and Scroll Viewport to publish kick-ass webpages. The event is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about our Scroll Content Management add-ons and meet us face-to-face.

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Are you a Java plugin developer interested in creating add-ons for JIRA, Confluence or other Atlassian software? If so, join us on July 17th for Java Forum Stuttgart, in the heart of the city. At this event, K15t co-founder Tobias Anstett will give a talk on developing JIRA/Confluence add-ons using the Atlassian SDK (in German). This one-day conference is designed to give attendees a broad overview of the latest Java technology trends. The day will be filled with talks on Java development (with speakers from Google, IBM and Oracle). What’s more, there will be around 40 exhibitors from the Java space – including K15t Software.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Val Fisher (contentrules.com): "The 6 Tools You Already Have for Improving Content Quality"

This blog post is about happy accidents, career opportunities, a writer’s DNA, and Confluence. Let me introduce myself and tell you the story of how I became a K15t Software staff member.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Mark Baker (Every Page is Page One): "Content as Furniture"

The new (German) Content Management System study of tekom compares wiki-based documentation using Confluence combined with Scroll content management add-ons with 17 traditional content management systems for technical documentation.

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from Scott Abel, reported by Sarah Maddox: "The Making of 'The Language of Content Strategy' (stc14)"

Here's K15t Software's weekly social web round-up for technical writers, information architects, and content strategists. This week's top story from the Tech Writer Today Magazine: "Agile and Tech Comm: Working on Remote Teams"

Come with us to Berlin and attend the AtlasCamp 2014 on June 3rd – 5th! It's the premier conference for Atlassian add-on and plugin developers to learn about the Atlassian developer platform, and hang out with developers from Atlassian and – of course – from K15t Software. Most of the K15t Software team will arrive Tuesday and stay the whole event.

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Atlassian is on the road again! This year, the Atlassian RoadTrip will stop in eight cities across the globe. Meet the K15t team on Thursday, May 8, when the Atlassian RoadTrippers come to Berlin, Germany.

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In my previous blogpost, I explained how GoEdit can be used to turn Atlassian Confluence from a premium collaboration tool into an easy-to-use document management system. But there was still one issue to resolve: How can you prevent users from editing attachments concurrently? In this blog post, we will look at another useful add-on that solves this dilemma and integrates seamlessly with GoEdit.

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Confluence is not a document management system (DMS). But many organizations use it for a huge range of purposes – even for sharing images, documents and other files. As Confluence is an extensible platform, let’s see how we can add missing DMS features to our favorite wiki. In this blog post, we will look at a nice attachment handling add-on for Confluence that allows us to edit attachments of any file type.

We are delighted to announce the release of Scroll Versions 2.3 and Scroll Translations 1.2. This release enables you to delete pages and their children in just a few clicks. We are also introducing a new Content by Label macro that's fully compatible with translated and versioned content. And we've made a raft of UI improvements to enhance usability. Let's check out what's included in the new release.

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As the influence of the internet continues to grow, Search Engine Optimization and Content Marketing have become two of the hottest buzzwords of the moment. Having a kick-ass website, an informative blog, and a presence on leading social media channels are essential for success.

If you're passionate about developing top-quality software, that passion could well take up most of your time. As a father of two, a basketball enthusiast and a hobby guitarist, I often found myself working on code when I would have liked to spend time on my other interests. Luckily, I discovered SonarQube, a tool that makes it easier for me to trust the code I’m developing or maintaining. SonarQube gives me insights that were previously hard to obtain. And that helps me to enjoy more leisure time. Maybe it can do the same for you.

Some bugs can be fixed in a matter of minutes. But correctly incorporating your fix into the VCS can take much longer – especially if you have multiple related projects and the bugfix requires minor changes to all of them. Here at K15t, this applies to our Scroll Exporters, for example. This blogpost will explain how you can speed up the process of merging your fixes with the master branch(es) of your projects.

"With Scroll Office and Scroll Versions, we can manage the whole documentation process within the Confluence infrastructure – and create our final documents from the repository. Norbert Bittner, CEO, up to data professional services

Some years ago, Canonical launched an initiative called One Hundred Papercuts to improve user experience with its Ubuntu operating system. A papercut is "a small, easily fixed bug or annoyance that a user will experience frequently". The name comes from the saying, "Death by a thousand papercuts". We at K15t Software were aware that there were some papercuts in our own software, so we concentrated on eliminating as many of them as possible in today's release of Scroll Versions 2.2.

I’m sure you’re familiar with the term dogfooding – using your own products in-house. We at K15t really do eat our own dog food: We employ Scroll Versions to manage the documentation of our Scroll add-ons in Confluence. As a technical writer, I use Scroll Versions in my everyday work because it's a great tool. But at the same time, I leverage the dual benefits of dogfooding: It provides an opportunity both to improve the software and to develop best practices based on my own experience with the tool. In this blog post, I would like to share my experience with you and describe our best practices.

The tekom annual conference is a must for all businesses that provide software and/or services for the technical communications sector. The latest releases of our Scroll add-ons were greeted with enthusiam. Scroll Translations and integration with the Across Language Server attracted particular interest.

Meet the K15t Software team at the tekom / tcworld annual conference 2013, get the latest news about the Scroll Add-ons for Confluence, and attend a talk of the K15t team and/or Susan Griffin of Atlassian.

We are proud to announce the next add-on in the Scroll product family: Introducing Scroll Viewport, our new theme add-on and framework for Confluence to create beautiful and simple themes - for websites, intranets, or to publish your documentation.

Scroll Translations helps you internationalizing your content: Manage multiple languages in the same Atlassian Confluence space and translate within or outside Atlassian Confluence.

Managing content in Confluence with the Scroll Versions add-on allows authors to schedule new pages, modifications or removals for a specific version. This is quite handy when documenting product features that appear (or disappear) in certain versions. However, in some cases it is also required to remove a page and all its versions.

Since K15t Software was founded, a lot of talented individuals joined our team. Soon the initial office space became too small and we had to move into a new office. Last week we did it again - the new office is only a few steps away from the last one, but it's a giant leap forward for the K15t Software team.

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Last week we had Information Developer and long term wiki-user Kelly McDaniel visiting us at our office in Stuttgart. Kelly was giving an inspiring talk about his story of migrating technical documentation from Adobe Framemaker to the Atlassian Confluence wiki. We have recorded Kelly's talk so everybody who was not able to join, can watch it online.

In this post you can learn how easy it is to create a user macro in Confluence that will show a Twitter-user's timeline. You're literally only a few clicks away from letting your colleagues know about your Tweets directly in your Confluence wiki.

We are looking forward to welcome technical writer and wiki-user Kelly M. McDaniel this week in our Stuttgart office at K15t Software. Kelly is a Senior Information Developer and long term user of the Atlassian Confluence wiki and the Scroll Add-ons for Confluence. On Thursday, July 4th at 5:30pm he will give a talk at K15t Software about migrating documentation to Confluence and pushing back the frontiers of wiki-based documentation.

The K15t Software team will attend the AtlasCamp 2013 in Amsterdam. Most of the team will arrive Tuesday night and stay the whole week. We are looking forward to meet you there and discuss all things wiki-based documentation and more...

As we love to celebrate with friends, partners, and our adored customers, we invited a bunch of people to join our Scroll Versions 2.0 release party. As is right and proper, we had beer and pretzels and a couple of short talks about K15t Software and the latest add-ons for Confluence.

Nine months after the release of Scroll Versions 1.0, we are proud to release a new major release - Scroll Versions 2.0. Managing multiple variants in a single space in Confluence 5 - Scroll Versions 2.0 makes it possible and brings you to the next step in managing your documentation collaboratively in Confluence. The new Scroll Versions 2.0 offers you the ability to handle multiple versions and multiple variants in the same space. Also, the Page Info Panel gives enhanced information and the overall usability got improved. Another great feature is the SEO enhancement, to improve the searchability of your documentation.

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To ensure the best quality of all your documentation, it is important to track the status of each page so only approved pages are published. This is essential for technical documentation.

Duplicate page titles have been a requested feature for Confluence for a long time, because people want to have multiple "Introduction" pages for different sections in their wiki space. However, it is not supported by Confluence. But, in Scroll Versions' we have added the permalink feature that allows multiple wiki pages with the same title in the same Confluence space. This article describes how to use duplicated page titles without using the other Scroll Versions functionality.

We spent the last couple of days at the tcworld conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. The tcworld conference is the most important technical communicators' conference in Europe. With a lot of english speaking tracks it is an internationally well recognized event.

Right in time for Tekom 2012 we've relaunched the K15t Software website for better usability, more appealing design and more content.

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Scroll Versions is our latest add-on for Confluence. It does not only support concurrent versions in one space, but also supports duplicate page titles. This means you can create pages with the same title in one wiki space, which is a must-have for any kind of documentation. This feature also allows for Permalinks, which means that the page title can change, but the URL stays the same.

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Wikis are a great tool for technical documentation. Structuring and authoring the content in a collaborative way is as easy as it can be. A bigger challenge is keeping track of the whole documentation process. Especially when working in bigger teams it is important to know what has already been done and what still needs to be done. Labels are a great mechanism to retain control over all your pages.

Atlassian Team Calendars for Confluence and Jira have evolved rapidly over the last few months. Coming from release 1.0 to 1.8 in 8 months is quite a fast pace. Let's take a closer look at this really helpful plugin and how it can be used to improve your daily business.

Good news for all Confluence users and Technical Writers out there: Confluence 4.1 has just arrived. Atlassian is making a huge christmas present by bringing Confluence 4.1 just in time for the holiday season. Confluence has some cool new features, that will make a lot of users really happy, not only the Technical Writers: Instant Autoconvert, professional Image Effects and the long awaited Find & Replace. These new features will let you edit like a pro.

Yeah, we finally did it! We moved to a new office! Over the last months we've grown quite a bit and now it's time for a new Office.

Documentation processes in many cases require formal approvals and archiving to comply with common regulations or company policies. This is also true when using wikis like the Confluence wiki for documentation. Therefore the Ad hoc Workflow plugin and the the Scroll Wiki Exporters now work really well together to give you that kind of functionality.