Compliance Glossary for Confluence

What happens after a live page changes?

After a live Confluence page changes, the completed baseline stays unchanged. Its copied revision bytes, content hash, scan evidence, membership, and root remain tied to the earlier page version. The page-change trigger marks current scan evidence stale and can record a new scan. Preserve the edit in a later verified baseline; do not overwrite the earlier evidence.

Last verified against production v6 · 26 September 2026

At a glance

InputActionOutputLimit
Completed baselineRead its stored revision, membership, and rootEvidence tied to the captured page versionA live edit does not update this record
Page create or update eventMark the prior current scan stale, then run the page scanStale status and, when the scan completes, current evidenceA five-minute debounce can skip a repeated fetch; operational errors can prevent a new scan
Edited page versionCapture canonical body bytes and calculate a new content hashA distinct revision identity for a later freezeThe source version must still match during capture
Source drift during freezeCompare the prepared snapshot with the sourceFailed freeze with no current-pointer promotionMixed or incomplete evidence is not promoted
Verified later freezeCheck counts and aggregate roots, then promote its pointerA new current baselineThe earlier baseline remains stored under its own identity

How it works

  1. Open Compliance Scanner.
  2. Under Select Space to Scan, choose the space and select Scan Space.
  3. Check Space Scan History for the new completed scan.
  4. Open Terminology Baseline and review Changed since baseline.
  5. Under Term usage and impact, select Look up usage when the edit affects terminology.
  6. Under Create enterprise freeze, set the scope and retention fields, then select Prepare and queue freeze.
  7. Select Run verification before treating the later baseline as current evidence.

Example

Baseline A contains page version 12 and its content hash. An editor saves version 13. Baseline A still identifies version 12. The current scan becomes stale, and a completed scan can capture version 13. A later verified Baseline B can then include version 13 under a separate baseline identity.

What this does not mean

A page edit never mutates completed baseline evidence. Automatic scanning is not a completion guarantee: debounce handling or an operational error can leave the current scan stale. A later enterprise freeze requires complete, consistent source evidence. Verification checks stored counts and roots before pointer promotion; it does not determine whether the edited wording is legally or semantically correct.

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Next step

After a controlled page edit, confirm the new scan, review its impact, and create a later verified baseline when the change must enter evidence.

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Verification basis: production v6 code, tests, manifest, and operations guidance. Verified 26 September 2026.