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Create a blank space

There's no limit to the number of spaces you can create in Confluence. Set up a space for each team and project to start with, then create more depending on your needs.

Each space in Confluence:

  • Has an overview, pages, and a blog

  • Can have its own logo

  • Has its own set of permissions, as set by the space admin(s)

For example:

  • An IT team could create one overarching space with all their roadmaps, details of sub-teams, and a list of all the people and roles within that team.

  • They could then create a new space for each sub-team, such as Quality Assurance, Developers, and Documentation, with guidelines, long term plans, and knowledge articles within them.

  • Each project that these teams work on could also have its own space, which could be linked to the team spaces using labels.

When you create a space, you’re automatically granted 'space admin' permissions for it, which means you can then grant permissions to other users and groups.

Create a personal space

Your personal space is always owned by you, and you can use it to store your individual work, keep track of tasks, blog about what you've been working on, or just use it to polish your pages before you move them into another space.

 To learn more about creating a personal space, seeCustomize your personal space.

Your profile photo appears as the logo of your personal space. To learn how to set the visibility of your profile photo, see Update your profile and visibility settings.

Changes to your profile visibility settings don’t affect your personal space’s name, but you can update its name in Space settings. 

Create a team or project space

 To create a team or project space, you need the “Create Space” global permission.

You can create a site space for any team or project that would benefit from having a place where people can work together and store related files. You can create these as blank spaces, or use templates to help you create team spaces, knowledge base spaces, documentation spaces, or software project spaces.

For more information, see Create a space from a template.

Change your space details

Your space name and its icon can be changed after the space is created.

To edit the space name:

  1. Navigate to the appropriate space and select Space settings in the left sidebar.

  2. Select Space details in the Manage space card.

  3. Select Edit space details and type in a new name.

  4. Select Save.

To edit the space logo:

  1. Navigate to the appropriate space and select Space settings in the left sidebar.

  2. Select Space details in the Manage space card.

  3. Select [ Edit ] to the right of the Space Logo.

  4. Upload your own logo or select Gallery to choose from existing illustrations.

  5. Select Save.

Space permissions

When you create a space, you can choose its permissions:

  • Default permissions: The space will use the default permissions settings for all spaces that were set by your Confluence admin.

  • Only visible to you: You’ll be the only person who can see content in the space.

  • Copy permissions from another space: (Available on the Premium plan)
    Copy the permissions settings from another space. You can only copy permissions from a space where you're already an admin.

Site admins can edit the permissions of spaces in their Confluence site at any time.

Copy permissions from another space

Only available on the Premium plan.

If you’re the space admin of another space, you can reuse that space’s permissions when you create a new space. This helps get your new space up and running fast.

  1. Start creating a space, When you create a new space, either from a template or a blank space, expand Additional options.

  2. Under Permissions, select Copy permissions from another space.

  3. Choose the space whose permissions you want to copy. Spaces with a lock cannot have their permissions copied because you aren’t the space admin of those spaces.

  4. Select Create space to finish.

Creating a blank space and copying permissions from another space

You can link related spaces together using labels. This will create categories in the space directory for each label, grouping all spaces with that label together. 

  • You can also add a space description to make it easier for visitors to find the right space within each category. 

  • To help navigate between related spaces, you can use the spaces list macroon a page and filter by category. This will let you insert a list of all the other spaces in a certain category into your space. You can use this, for example, to keep a list in your team space of all the project spaces your team is working on. 

  • If you want to link to only certain pages of related content, rather than whole spaces, you can use the content report table macro You can use this, for example, in a space that functions as a workplace directory, to create a list of all the team pages with everyone's roles and contact details across your organization. 

  • If your needs change, or your spaces grow too big, it's easy to copy or move content from one space to another. 

  • If you no longer need a space, such as when a project has been completed, you can archive it. This makes it less visible but retains the content on your site so that you can still refer back to it later.

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