Working with Templates Overview

Users can create editable forms to enter page content by creating a template. For example, a software development project may have a template for use-cases; or a systems administration space, a template for defining what information is being kept about each server.

In Confluence, there are two types of templates:

Global Templates : These are defined by site administrators through the Administration Console and are available in every space.
Space Templates: These are defined by space administrators in the space administration screens, and are only available in the space in which they are defined.

Global templates can only be created by site administrators, and space templates by space administrators.

Templates are written in regular Confluence markup, using special markup to define form fields that need to be filled in.

Here is an example:

Note

Currently, templates can only be used to create a page. Once a page is created, the template is gone and all further editing is performed as if the template was never used. In the future, templates will be expanded to do more interesting things such as remaining part of the page, having more complex (and even dynamic) fields, being able to search Confluence based on the value of particular fields, and so on.

Important Plugins For Templates

Two popular plugins that expand on template behaviour are the Zones Plugin and Scaffolding Plugin. Below is a comparision:

Field	Default	Zones Plugin	Scaffolding Plugin
Description	Basic	Flexible	Powerful
Saves page version history
Allows return to form version
Suitable for dynamic data
Has a library of examples

Working with Templates Overview

Important Plugins For Templates

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