How to add a Product Tour to Confluence

How to easily add a product guide to your Confluence page?

This quick guide describes how to do it even without administrative rights.

1. Get your Usetiful code

Log in to your account on Usetiful.com and click the "Embed code" button. The code will show up in the modal dialog. Copy it to the clipboard (select the code and press Ctrl+C).

2. Paste the code into HTML macro

Edit or Create new page on Confluence, where the tour should show up. When in Confluence editor, choose from the toolbas the option "Insert more content" and select the option "Other macros" at the bottom of the list. Search for the "HTML" in the displayed modal dialog.

Add the HTML macro into the page and paste the Usetiful code inside.

Save the page.

3. Configure the tour

If you don't have a product tour created - you can create new one in Usetiful! Here are few tips & tricks. Tour will show up automatically, if parameters "Autoplay" or "Usetiful button" are enabled.

When setting up the tour, important is the "Url" field that specifies on which pages the tour will display. Paste the domain of your Confluence and click "Save".

Return to your Confluence page and refresh it using the Ctrl+F5 keys.

4. Enjoy the tour!

Don't forget to track usage of your product tour with Usetiful reports ;)

Create product tours with Usetiful

Usetiful contains an advanced editor that enables you to build tours visually without any programming skills. Try it yourself with 14-day trial.

Preview Tours with Usetiful Chrome Extension

We are happy to introduce Usetiful for Chrome, a new browser extension that enables you to preview all your Usetiful product tours on any site without touching the code. Just follow the steps below to preview your product tours:

Install plugin and preview your tour 1. Enter Google Chrome Web Store and install the Usetiful: Product Tours extension.

(Note: Usetiful: Product Tours browser extension works with Chrome browser only)
2. When the plugin is successfully installed, the Usetiful icon will appear in the browser top bar with the following message.

3. Click on the Usetiful icon and log in using your Usetiful credentials. If you are currently logged in to the Usetiful, the plugin will connect to your account automatically.
4. Go to the page where you want to preview your tour. The bottom panel indicates whether the selected tour is available.
(Note: Only tours that are allowed to be shown on given page will be offered - see Page Targeting.)

If the tour is available, you can immedi…

Select Element on Your Page

To associate tour steps (pointers) with specific elements on your site, you need to hook to the selectors of elements. Selectors are used to "find" the HTML elements on your site. It is not difficult to find out the selector of a specific page element.

The easiest way is to use our Chrome extension.

Usetiful for Chrome extension (Recommended) 1. We recommend you to first install the extension - it enables you to preview product tours directly on your page without embedding the code. When on the page, it allows you to get the element selector on just one click.

2. Inside the tour editor, the "Element" field require you to enter the selector of the HTML element on your site.

Click on the "Select element" action on the right side of the field. The following dialog will appear if the Usetiful browser extension is enabled.

3. Enter the address of your web page and click "Open page"
4. To select the element on the target page, just move your mouse c…

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