What's the Right App for Me – Scroll Documents or Scroll Versions?
This page aims to answer the question of whether your existing Scroll Versions workflow on Confluence Server or Data Center can be migrated to Confluence Cloud, as some of the features have yet to be implemented in Scroll Documents and some already implemented ones work differently.
Hosting
| Type | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents |
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Features
The feature comparison below is updated regularly as we continue development on Scroll Documents. The current information reflects the feature state of .
Basic
Legend: – Available | – Unavailable | 
– Partially available
| Feature | Description | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents | Details |
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Versioning | Create and manage different versions of your documentation in Confluence. | | | Although both apps provide functionality to create and manage versions of your documentation, there are still some fundamental differences between them that you should be aware of. |
| Variants and Conditional Content | Create and manage different variants of your documentation. | | | Both variants and conditional content have been released for Scroll Documents and are supported by the automated migration. |
Publish in Confluence | Publish the documentation from your private authoring space to a public space. | | | Scroll Versions supports three different mechanisms to publish content within Confluence: Publish to a new space, Publish to an existing space, and Publish within the same space. Scroll Documents does not support all these mechanisms yet. |
| Publish to the Web | Publish your documentation and its versions to a publicly available Help Center using Scroll Viewport |
(Server Only) |
(Cloud Only) | Scroll Versions integrates with Scroll Viewport on Confluence Server only, while Scroll Documents integrates with Scroll Viewport on Confluence Cloud only. |
| Publish to a Document | Publish your documentation and its versions into different file formats with Scroll Exporters. | | | Scroll Versions integrates with all of our Scroll Exporters on premise. Scroll Documents currently integrates with all Scroll Exporters available on Confluence Cloud. |
| Publish to a different Confluence Instance (Remote Publishing) | Publish your content to a different Confluence instance. | | | As an alternative, you can use Scroll Viewport for Confluence Cloud to publish your documents created with Scroll Documents to a publicly available site. |
Content Reuse | | | ||
| Workflows |
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Advanced
| Feature | Description | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents | Details |
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| Duplicate Page Titles | Manage duplicate page titles within the authoring space. The limitation of unique page titles cannot be lifted, it can only be worked around. |
| | With Scroll Versions, this is achieved with the help of the Scroll Page Title which is displayed in page view instead of the actual Confluence page title, which still needs to be unique. The Scroll Page title is used during publishing in Scroll Viewport and Scroll Exporters. In Scroll Documents, version/language prefixes are used to prevent duplicate page titles. The prefixes are displayed in page view, but omitted when publishing in Scroll Viewport or Scroll Exporters. |
| Page Keys & Context Sensitive Help | Assign page keys to specific pages that can be used to link to that page. | |
(release pending) | Page keys (content keys) are currently being implemented in Scroll Documents and Scroll Viewport for Cloud. |
Development
| Feature | Description | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java API | Integrate Confluence Server apps with Scroll Versions. | | |
| REST API (unofficial) | Use REST resources for process automation. | | |
Integrations
Scroll Apps
| App | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents |
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Scroll Viewport (for Confluence Server/DC) |
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| Scroll Viewport (for Confluence Cloud) | | |
| Scroll PDF Exporter |
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| Scroll Word Exporter | | |
| Scroll HTML Exporter | | (release pending) |
| Legacy Scroll Exporters (DocBook, EclipseHelp, EPUB, CHM) | | |
Third-Party Apps
| App | Description | Scroll Versions | Scroll Documents |
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| Comala Document Management | Integrates versioned spaces with Comala Document Management Workflows. |
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Still unclear? Please reach out to us
If it's still unclear to you whether or not Scroll Versions or Scroll Documents is right for you, please reach out to us via help@k15t.com and describe your needs and use case, and we'll further explain which is the right app for you.