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Baselines for Confluence Cloud captures point-in-time snapshots — baselines — of your Confluence pages and their attachments. Track how content changes over time, compare any two states, export a baseline to PDF, and restore content back into Confluence when you need it.

Before you begin

You need a Confluence Cloud site with Baselines for Confluence Cloud installed from the Atlassian Marketplace, and permission to view the spaces you want to snapshot. Open the app from Confluence → Apps → Baselines.

What Baselines does

A baseline is a saved snapshot of selected pages (and their attachments) at a moment in time. Once captured, a baseline is immutable — it records exactly the content and version of each page as it was when the snapshot ran. From there you can:

Track versions — every page in a baseline records the version it was captured at.
Compare two baselines side by side to see what changed between them.
Export to PDF — turn an entire baseline into a single, cover-paged PDF document.
Import / restore — publish a baseline's content back into Confluence as a page with attachments.
Schedule automatic baselines daily, weekly or monthly so snapshots happen without anyone remembering.

The Baselines dashboard

The dashboard lists every baseline on your site with its owner, baseline date, content count and creation time. The header shows totals and quick actions — Schedules, Compare and + Create Baseline. Each row has inline actions: View, Retake, Export PDF, Import and Delete.

Step-by-step quick start

Install & open

Install Baselines for Confluence Cloud from the Marketplace, then open Confluence → Apps → Baselines. See Install & access.

Create your first baseline

Click + Create Baseline, give it a name, pick a snapshot type, choose a space and select the pages to include. Full walkthrough: Creating a baseline.

View, compare or export

Open a baseline to browse its contents, compare it against another, or export it to PDF in a couple of clicks.

Automate it

Set up scheduled baselines so a fresh snapshot is captured on a daily, weekly or monthly cadence — no manual step required.

Tip

Use scheduled baselines as a lightweight safety net: a nightly snapshot means yesterday's version of a page is always recoverable — Import re-publishes it as a new Confluence page, so the original is never overwritten.

What's next

Creating a baseline →

The three-step wizard: configuration, page selection and save.

Compare baselines →

See exactly what changed between two snapshots.

Export to PDF →

Turn a baseline into a single polished PDF document.

Scheduled baselines →

Capture snapshots automatically on a schedule.

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