Content Exporter
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  • General Product Information
    • 🤓Overview
    • 🏗️Installing Content Exporter
      • Installation Notes
      • Cloud Platform security
  • User Guides
    • 👷‍♂️Before exporting
      • General settings
      • Remote API (Cloud only)
      • Export profiles
        • General formatting
        • Custom Stylesheets (CSS)
        • Cover pages
        • Page size and the margins
        • Headers & Footers
        • Table of Contents
          • Generating a Table of Contents
          • Formatting Table of Contents
          • Examples for customized Table of Contents
      • Custom stylesheets
        • Stylesheet administration
        • Exporting specific CSS classes
        • Custom Stylesheet Examples
        • Adding a watermark
      • Macros
      • PDF Custom fonts
      • Embedded links with page number
    • 👨‍🏫During export
      • Exporting Confluence pages
      • Customizing the profile
  • Additional Information
    • ▶️Release notes
    • ❓Frequently Asked Questions
    • 3️⃣Supported 3rd party apps
  • Dependency license guide
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General settings

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1. To access General configuration, click the icon, and choose General configuration.

Important: You need to be logged in as an administrator.

2. Once in the General Configuration menu, open Content Exporter -> General settings.

General settings can have the following configuration:

Setting
Description
Default

Output format - None

If none of the options are checked, the Export with Content Exporter option is not present in the Tools menu.

-

Output format - PDF

If checked, the PDF option is available on the Export dialog - File format dropdown list.

checked

Output format - Word

If checked, the DOC option is available on the Export dialog - File format dropdown list.

checked

Output format - HTML

If checked, the HTML option is available on the Export dialog - File format dropdown list.

checked

Export permission

It defines what kind of export permission is active in Content Exporter:

  • None - If the user has view permission, he/she can export the page.

  • Use confluence permissions - Only those users can export who has export permission on the exportable space. The Content exporter checks that the correct permissions are present.

None

Export page selection

When using the 'Selected pages' option on the Export Dialog, this option will determine which pages will be selected by default. This option is overriden by the selected pages of the user's latest export.

  • All pages are selected - Every page will be selected.

  • No page is selected - No page will be selected.

All pages are selected

Setting up export permissions in Confluence

If you select the Use confluence permissions under permission management, the system checks if the user has export permission in the current space or not.

You can use the standard settings to enable export for a user or a group. For more information, see the Confluence documentation:

Adding a global export permission to a group
Adding a space export permission to a user
Adding a space export permission to a group
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