Solid Glossary for Confluence

Solid Glossary keeps one glossary per Confluence space, plus a read view across spaces. It is built around one idea: the terminology your team needs already exists in a spreadsheet or an old wiki table, and getting it in without losing rows is the hard part.

Where to find it

• The glossary: open a space, then choose Glossary in the space sidebar under Apps. Terms are browsable by first letter or by label, with the definition visible in the list.
• Import, export, history and roles: Space settings → Solid Glossary. Confluence shows space settings to space administrators only, and that is deliberately the only place where roles can be changed.
• Across spaces: the global Glossary page (Apps menu) shows terms from every space you can see. Visibility always follows Confluence space permissions.

Importing a glossary

Go to Space settings → Solid Glossary → Import and pick a CSV or Excel file. The importer reads the file you actually have:

• Any delimiter: comma, semicolon or tab.
• UTF-8 or Latin-1, with or without a byte-order mark.
• Headers in English or German (Term, Begriff, Also known as, See also and similar).
• Quotes and line breaks inside definitions are handled correctly. A file with 113 records across 118 physical lines imports as exactly 113 records.

Columns are matched to fields automatically, and every match shows the reason it was made, so a wrong guess takes one click to correct. Before anything is written you see a preview: how many records were found, how many are new, how many already exist and will change, and how many will be skipped. Every skipped row is named with its line number and the reason, and the full list can be downloaded. Nothing is dropped silently.

Undoing an import

Every import run is listed in the history with what it did. One button restores the glossary to the state before that run.

Terms

A term holds a definition plus optional synonyms, acronyms, related terms, labels, an owner and a source. All of these can be imported, edited in the app and exported again. Duplicate detection understands acronyms and near-identical wording, and the merge keeps both definitions instead of silently choosing one.

Search

Search reads definitions, synonyms, acronyms and labels, not just titles. Searching for a word you remember from a definition finds the term even when the word appears nowhere in its name.

Terms in pages

Use the Glossary term macro to place a definition inside any Confluence page. Correct the definition once in the glossary and every page carrying that term shows the corrected text.

Roles and approval

By default every space member with edit rights can manage terms. If you want control, assign a glossary manager in Space settings → Solid Glossary → Roles. With the optional approval workflow enabled, editors propose changes, a manager accepts or rejects them, and the history is kept. It is off by default.

Export

Export the complete glossary to CSV or Excel at any time, including every field this app added. Leaving is not a project.

Permissions and data

The app requests a single permission: its own storage. It cannot read your pages, it cannot write to them, and it cannot list your users. It runs entirely on Atlassian's infrastructure, so your data never reaches a server of ours. Details are in the privacy policy.

What it deliberately does not do

Solid Glossary does not scan or highlight terms inside your page text. Confluence's own Rovo Definitions covers that on Standard plans and above. If automatic highlighting is what you are looking for, this is not the app.

Languages

The interface is available in English and German. Each person sees the app in the language set in their own Atlassian profile; there is no setting inside the app.

Questions

Anything unclear, or a file that will not import? Write to [email protected] and include the file if you can share it.