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 ;)

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Select Element on Your Page

If you want to associate tour steps (especially pointers) with specific elements on your site, you need to link the specific step to selectors of these elements

Element Selector Selectors are used to "find" the HTML elements on your site. To find out the selector of a specific page element is not hard. Just follow these instructions:

1. In your browser (ideally in Google Chrome or Firefox) navigate to the specific weg page where the tour step should be linked to page element.

We will use our demo site as an example. Let's say that we want to associate the tour step with the first picture on this page (the picture of London, top-left).

2. Right-click on the element you want to find a selector for and choose the "Inspect" option.

3. The inspector panel will appear with the highlighted element. It should look similar to the picture below:

When you hover with mouse cursor over the blue like in the inspector panel, your element is highlighted on the page. If you c…

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