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You need to be a space administrator to modify a space template.

To edit a template:

  1. Choose Browse > Advanced > Templates. A list of templates for the space is displayed.

  2. Click the Edit link for the template to be modified.

  3. Make changes, or add new content, as you would when creating a template, using form field markup, if required.

  4. Click Update to save your changes.
Related Topics

Adding a Template
Creating a Page using a Template
Working with Templates
Working with Pages

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  1. Jun 14, 2007

    Anonymous

    After editing an existing template and saving it, the updates are not seen on pages that used this template. How do we make it happen?

  2. Oct 09, 2007

    Anonymous

    That would be realy nice, if the template changes would appear on all pages, which has been created with the template.

    1. Oct 09, 2007

      David Peterson [CustomWare]

      You can achieve that by using the {live-template} macro. You may also want to use the rest of the macros in the Scaffolding plugin if you do so...

  3. Feb 04, 2011

    Anonymous

    I would like to have a template variable within a link, like this:

    ----
    This page is a member of
    * [Category (PARENT)]

    ----

    ... unfortunately, this causes an error, unless i escape the brackets... but if I escape the brackets, e.g.

    * [Category (PARENT)]

    The escape characters show up when I use the template.

    Is there any way around this?

  4. Feb 04, 2011

    Anonymous

    Wuups, that got rendered...

    this breaks:

    \[Category@PARENT@\]

    this doesn't break, but includes back-slash characters in the resulting page:

    \[Category@PARENT@\]

  5. Feb 04, 2011

    Anonymous

    Sigh. WYSIWYG editor added backslashes to the first set of square brackets... delete them mentally, please ;-)

  6. Oct 26, 2011

    Viktor Schulz

    Hi guys,

    When I was creating or modifying templates before 4.0,  I used to create a page which looked the template I wantred to create, "view page in Wiki markup" and copy pasted the wiki markup text in the template editor. Few minor manuall corrections - Violà!

    Now the "view in Wiki markup"-option is gone, whilst templates still must be written in wiki markup. 

    My questions: 

    a) is the a way to see a page in wiki markup?

    b) do you know any other workaround to solve this?

    c) are you allready planning to fix the template editor, so that wiki markup is no longer neccessary?

    Thank you very much in advance!

    Best, 

    Viktor 

    1. Dec 29, 2011

      Fabian

      Viktor, I am in the same boat.

      I used to develop the pages, get the approval and then create the template to be used by the team on the creation of new pages with the same structure.

      Today I got the approval for a new page structure and ..... there is not way to convert that as a template (sad)

      So, please help us with Templates editing in Confluence 4.x! Thanks

  7. Nov 14, 2011

    Darragh O'Brien

    I second Viktors comments above. Hoping for some suggestions to be put forward by the Atlassian team.

    Regards,

    Darragh

    1. Feb 06, 2012

      Anonymous

      Consider it thirded.

      And the original topic about propagating changes across templates is equally important to us. The live-template macro mentioned above is a third-party macro that has not, from what I can tell, been updated for Confluence 4.x:

      http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/live-template

       

  8. Feb 09, 2012

    Anonymous

    Same thing for me: I was starting to be pleased with the new Editor, wrote a nice page and then I tried to create a template using it... Then I cried !

  9. Feb 10, 2012

    John Masson [Atlassian]

    Hi Viktor, Fabian, Darragh,

    Yep we're aware of this as a problem at the moment and will be fixing it in CONF-11744, you might like to put a watch on it to be notified when it's done.

    Thanks,
    John