Are there any document classification approaches already built-in Confluence?
Asked by John Scripolus:

Are there any document classification approaches already built-in Confluence?


Answers:
author: John Scripolus
body: Thanks for the answer

But, I want to classify documents not pages

comments: author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Documents you attach to a page, like in a content management system?


author: John Scripolus
body: Yes, specifically the documents are in Google Drive.

I want to classify them in Confluence


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Maybe I'm looking at this from the complete wrong angle, but wouldn't you create a page with metadata that describes the document? Maybe you are looking for a tool that derives this metadata from the document in Google Drive?

The closest to this I know of (and this is not very close ;-) ) is the [Share Link Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/shared-links-blueprint-407724258.html). It allows to create a page in Confluence with (some limited) metadata from a webpage. I know of no such tool for a document.

We use blueprints (together with third-party add-ons) to describe resources and then list and reference these resources from within Confluence. But the categorization is done manually and the reference to the resource is a link (or URI). The number of documents we deal with is quite limited, though.

The document is not a first-class citizen in this approach. I assume that is what you are looking for.


author: John Scripolus
body: So the problem is as follows:

There are documents in Google drive with different areas like development, training, support.

I need a system in Confluence that can somehow link these documents of Google drive into Confluence and classify them based on some approach.

And then I want to simply search for these documents.

Hope you can help.Thanks a lot!


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Sorry, but besides the very simple use case, I can only point to add-ons on the Marketplace, for instance [Confluence Google Drive](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence-google-drive/cloud/overview) for Confluence Cloud (which is free and therefore may account for as built-in - from the monetary point of view).

There are [a couple of other integration options with third-party add-ons](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=google+drive), but I have no experience with any of them. But maybe this provides some insights into options available on the different platforms (i.e. Cloud or Server).


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Are you looking for classification schemes or tools to classify pages (not documents?)?

For classifying pages Confluence provides [labels](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-remove-and-search-for-labels-136419.html) and [page properties](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html). [Blueprints](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blueprints-323982376.html) take advantage of both. Each page created with a blueprint is automatically labelled and listed on an automatically created index page. Page properties allow to specify a blueprint-specific set of metadat.

An example is the [Product Requirements Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/product-requirements-blueprint-329975392.html).

So this may be the closest to a built-in classification scheme, since each blueprint defines a document type with a set of metadata.

Maybe [user templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html) support your use cases, too. They can be created from within Confluence, while blueprints need to be [developed as a separate project](https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/space-blueprints/write-a-simple-confluence-space-blueprint).

Needless to say that there are plenty of add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace that support many use cases around this topic ...