Confluence Administrators can define default content for a space home page. This content will appear on the home page whenever someone adds a new space. You can define different content for global spaces and for personal spaces.
The default content will appear only for new spaces created after you have defined the content. Content in existing home pages will not be changed.
To define default content for home pages in global spaces:
- Go to the 'Administration Console' and click 'Default Space Content' under 'Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
- The 'Space Home Pages' tab will open on the 'Default Space Content' page. Enter the content which you want to appear on the home page for new global spaces. You can use special characters within the content as variables (place holders). Confluence will replace the curly brackets and digits with the corresponding information as shown below:
- {0} — The space name.
- Click the 'Save' button.
To define default content for home pages in personal spaces:
- Go to the 'Administration Console' and click 'Default Space Content' under 'Configuration' in the left panel.
- The 'Space Home Pages' tab will open on the 'Default Space Content' page. Click the 'Personal Space Home Pages' tab.
- Enter the content which you want to appear on the home page for new personal spaces. You can use special characters within the content as variables (place holders). Confluence will replace the curly brackets and digits with the corresponding information as shown below:
- {0} — The space owner's full name.
- {1} — The space owner's e-mail address.
- {2} — Any personal information the space owner has entered on their user profile in the 'Information about me' section.
- Click the 'Save' button.
You can also undo all customisations of the default home page content, and go back to the default content as originally supplied with Confluence.
To restore the original default content:
- Go to the 'Administration Console' and click 'Default Space Content' under 'Configuration' in the left panel.
- Select either the 'Space Home Pages' tab or the 'Personal Space Home Pages' tab, as required.
- Click the 'Revert' button.
Screenshot above: Defining default space content
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17 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsFeb 11, 2009
Anonymous
How do I set default content for other pages?
Feb 16, 2009
Komathi Krishnan [Atlassian]
Hi there,
As far as I am concerned, you can try adding a custom layout for normal Confluence pages. Browse to
Administration Consoleand click Layouts underLook and Feel. Click Create custom next to Page Layout and look for this line of codes:<div class="wiki-content"> $body </div>Edit your content in between this line of codes where the $body has been define. Save the changes and try creating new page. Please note that this will affect all of the pages in the space.
Refer here for more details on Customising Layouts
Cheers,
Komathi
Jun 23, 2010
Anonymous
Why does a separate panel with my profile and recent updates appear to the right of all my pages in my personal space.
Aug 17, 2010
Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]
Hi,
This feature was introduced in Confluence 3.0. Here's the link to release notes that explains about this feature:
In case, you would like to disable it, please refer to this comment. You might need to remove the line:
altogether if you do not want it.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
JSashi
Aug 08, 2010
Dhyana Scarano
Is it possible to Change the name of the Default Space Home Page.
I want all new home pages to be named "Welcome" instead of "Home".
Aug 10, 2010
Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]
Hello Dhyana, I am afraid that this is already set in the code base (com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.DefaultSpaceManager). If you would like to request for this feature, feel free to raise one at http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF
Aug 18, 2010
Dhyana Scarano
Thanks very much for the reply.
What about customising the content of the default Home page?
Aug 19, 2010
Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]
No worries. Check out Customising Default Space Content to do so, which is this page
Oct 18, 2011
Anonymous
I want to modify the space content by adding a taskdock macro to list all the tasks for that space. It requires the space key for that space. Can i get it as confluence replaces {0} with the space name ... i tried using {1} but it was foolish :P
Aug 25, 2011
Anonymous
+1 for this feature
Mar 26, 2011
Anonymous
It would be nice to allow to specify the name of the default "Personal Space Home Page" - because each one being named as "Home" makes it look unintuitive on the Recently Updated feed on the dashboard.
Sep 19, 2011
Alex Ghezelbash
Is it possible to change the default space permissions?
We want the Anonymous checkbox checked as default. is that possible?
Choose who can view and comment on content:
Best regards,
Alex
Sep 19, 2011
Alex Ghezelbash
Is it possible to change the default space permissions?
We want the Anonymous checkbox checked as default. is that possible?
Choose who can view and comment on content:
Best regards,
Alex
Oct 15, 2011
Anonymous
Customizing Default Space Content appears to require knowledge of the macros. Unfortunately with 4.0 it looks like all the macros are handled WYSIWYG through the insert macros functions, which this page lacks.
Going to the Confluence help, it looks like the macros have replaced with instructions on how to insert the wysiwyg components.
I can add a list of attachments to a page, and it works great. I'd like to add attachments list as default content, under the documents tree, for all pages. I can't find the syntax for that though. I'll start guessing, but some help would be appreciated. Even better would be documentation on the raw syntax someplace.
Oct 16, 2011
Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]
The wiki markup syntax for all macros is still available in the Confluence 3.5 Documentation. For example, the Popular Labels Macro is documented here.
Jan 30, 2012
Anonymous
Should new pages of a space preferably be child pages of another page, such as the home page?
I have been creating all pages in the root of my space without a parent page, but find that the Page Tree and Page Tree Search macros need a root page to display the content.
Feb 09, 2012
Royce Wong
I need access to the personal space owner's username, can we have a
{3} - username
Thanks.
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