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Your personal space is a place where you can publish your own pages and blog posts. Once you have set up your personal space, Confluence users can reach it by clicking your name in the People Directory.

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Creating your personal space

To set up your personal space, you require the 'Personal Space' permission which is assigned by a Confluence administrator from the Administration Console. Refer to the Permissions Overview and Global Permissions Overview topics or contact a Confluence administrator for more information.

To create your personal space:

  1. Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'user' menu.)
  2. Select Create Personal Space from the dropdown list. The 'Create Personal Space' view will open.
  3. Enter a few details about your space:
    • Choose who can view content.
    • Choose who can contribute (create and edit) content.
    • Choose the Theme (look and feel) for your personal space.

  4. Click Create.
  5. The 'Home' page for your new space is displayed.
    Note: Your home page will automatically contain any default space content as defined by your Confluence administrator.

Adding and changing content in your space

Now you can start adding pages to your personal space. You may also want to upload your photo.

Changing the colour scheme of Your Space

If you like, you can modify the colour scheme for your personal space.

Granting access to your space

When you created the space (see above), you made some preliminary decisions about who can view and contribute content to your space. You can change the permissions on your space at any time.

Notes

  • Once you have set up your personal space, you can return to it any time by clicking on your name (at the top of the page) and choosing Personal Space.

Related Topics

Working with Spaces
User Profile Overview
Linking to Personal Spaces and User Profiles

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  1. May 19, 2009

    Anonymous

    This page claims: "You can change the permissions on your space at any time." But the page that it links to tells that you need to have space administrator permissions to do that, so is not very helpful. For personal pages:

    1. Browse to pages in your personal space... seems like any will do.
    2. Under the Browse menu in the top menu bar there's a link called "Space Admin", use that...
    3. In the left pane, see the Security section, use the Permissions link.

    Hope that helps.

  2. Jan 18, 2010

    Karen Wright

    You can also apply page-level restrictions to your Personal Space. You don't need space administrator permissions to do this.

    Also see/vote for my issue to Restrict access to Personal Spaces based on Group membership.

    Restricting access to your Personal Space

    This will restrict access to your entire Personal Space.

    You must have Space Admin access to do this.
    If you created your Personal Space, you will have Space Admin.

    To restrict viewing access to a group:

    1. Click your name in the top right corner.
    2. Select Personal Space.
    3. Click Browse (or Browse Space), then select Space Admin.
    4. Click Permissions, then under Groups, click Edit Permissions.
    5. At confluence-users, un-select View.
    6. At Grant permissions to, search for and select the group, and then click Add.
    7. Click Save All.

    Restricting access to a page in your Personal Space

    This will only restrict access to the page you have edited - not the entire space.

    To restrict viewing access to a Group:

    1. Edit the page, at Restrictions click Edit.
    2. Select Restrict viewing of this page, click Choose groups.
    3. Search for and select the group, click Select Group(s).
    4. Click Save.

  3. Apr 14, 2010

    Meg Gwaltney

    If we want ALL personal spaces to have more than just confluence-users as default Viewers and Commenters, how do I do that as an administrator?

    For example, we have four main groups in our Global Permissions that can view, edit, create, etc. How can we apply these same groups to all Personal Spaces that get created so that by default anyone who can log in can also view personal spaces?

    Thanks!

  4. May 19, 2010

    Sharon Hinde

    Is there any way to change your personal space so that you retain the content but are free to setup another personal space with new content. My scenario is that on my test installation I have created a personal space and added some pages, but now I want to create a new personal space without losing the content I already added. I know this probably doesn't have any real world implications but from a test installation point of view, where there are many ongoing changes to a sites structure, I'd be interested in any solutions.

    Thanks

    1. Oct 20, 2010

      Husein Alatas [Atlassian]

      Hi Sharon,

      You can simply do it by exporting the Personal Space to XML, then restore the Space XML backup file to your new Confluence instance. Please take note that you need to have the same username in your new Confluence instance as the username that owns the Personal Space in your test installation. So if your Personal Space owner's username in test instance is adminconf, then you should have the adminconf user as well in your new Confluence instance. Otherwise, the restored space will not be your personal space in your new Confluence instance as the spacekey (eg. ~adminconf) does not match your username.

      Hope that helps

      Cheers,
      Husein

  5. Jul 30, 2010

    Aaron Stanush

    Is there a way to restrict the user profile infobox from displaying on every page inside a personal space? For example, making it so that this infobox only appears on the Home page but not any of the interior pages of the personal space.

    1. Aug 04, 2010

      Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]

      Hi Aaron,

      There's no direct way of doing this. However, you can customise your Personal Space's Main Layout to achieve this. Here are the instructions:

      1. Go to the personal space layout at Dashboard > People > <username> > Space Administration > Layout > Main Layout > Create custom
      2. Find for the following line of code:
      3. Edit the code so that it will be like the following:
      4. Save the layout
      5. You can see the changes now. Only the Home page will have the Profile infobox now.

      Hope this helps.

      Cheers
      JSashi

      1. Aug 04, 2010

        Justin Downing

        I can get to this, but I am a confluence-admin. How can ordinary users edit the Layout in their Personal Space?

        1. Aug 17, 2010

          Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]

          Hi Justin,

          All ordinary users that has a Personal Space will be able to access their own Personal Space's Main Layout. Hope this helps.

          Cheers
          JSashi

          1. Aug 17, 2010

            Justin Downing

            I created a new user and logged in as that user. I then created a Personal Space for that user and navigated to Space Admin. There is no option for Layout in there:

            Is there an global setting that has to be set in Confluence Admin for the user(s) to have Layout available to them for their Personal Space?

            1. Feb 06, 2012

              Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]

              Sorry Justin, you do need to be a Confluence administrator to customise the layout for a space - for more details see Customising Space Layouts

              There is an open issue with some discussion on this behaviour - feel free to add your own comments on it.

              However, if you want to make a change to apply to all spaces across the board, then you can do that (as a Confluence administrator) in just one place - see Customising Site and Space Layouts

              Cheers,
              Mark

            2. Aug 18, 2010

              Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]

              Sorry for my mistake, Justin. Please follow Mark's advice on customising the layout globally if you want the changes to reflect to all users.

              Cheers
              JSashi

      2. Oct 26, 2010

        Ole Nymoen

        Is there a way to achieve this while using the documentation theme (which I really like)? I have tried the following code in the header field, and it sort of works, but makes the right hand third of the screen (mostly) unaccesible (which sort of defies the purpose):

        1. Oct 28, 2010

          Ole Nymoen

          To answer my own question, with help from one of our web developers, the following code in the header "field" of the documentation theme removes the personal info sidebar:

          Enjoy (smile)

          1. May 05, 2011

            Anonymous

            This looks very helpful. I will try this. Does anyone know if it's possible to replace the personal sidebar with just a simple PANEL macro (like the one at the top-right of this page)? It would save me from having to insert this macro into every page.

  6. Aug 11, 2010

    Anonymous

    Is there a way to prevent certain users from accessing the user profiles at all ?

  7. Jan 10, 2011

    Steve Klenkar

    I want to disable personal spaces on my confluence instance.  How do I do this?

    1. Jun 05, 2011

      Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]

      Hi Steve,

      You can remove the 'Create Personal Space' permission for all users/groups on your instance. See Global Permissions Overview for more information on how to do this.

      Cheers,
      Mark

  8. Mar 22, 2011

    Corey Connors

    How do I delete personal spaces for staff that are no longer with my company?  I'd also like their names to no longer show as editors/commenters/contributors as it can be very confusing to new staff.

    1. Jun 05, 2011

      Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]

      Hi Corey,

      To delete a personal space, follow the instructions at Deleting a Space.

      To disable a user, follow the instructions at Removing or Deactivating a User.

      Cheers,
      Mark

  9. Jun 04, 2011

    Emily Johnson

    If you restrict a personal space to just yourself, can you give page-level access to other users on individual pages? I'm having some trouble with this---I give access and those users can't see the page.

    Thanks!

    1. Jun 05, 2011

      Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian]

      Hi Emily,

      If a space is restricted to yourself, then you cannot grant other users access to view individual pages. You would need instead to grant view access to the space, then restrict the pages that you do not want to be accessed.

      One way you could organise this is to have two 'root' pages in the space:

      • One called 'Public' - all pages under this can be viewed by anyone who has access to the space.
      • One called 'Private' which is restricted to you only - as view restrictions are inherited you can then put any content you want to remain private in a hierarchy under this page.

      Hope that helps,
      Mark

  10. Jun 30, 2011

    Eliane Pohl

    Is there a way to set default permissions for all personal spaces? Our wiki has external, customer-facing documentation, plus our intranet. We want viewing of personal spaces to restricted to internal users by default, and then users can go in and loosen the permissions themselves later.

    Is that possible? I know, kind of goes against the idea of a personal space, but HR wants users to have a page with their resume, etc. and I feel like the personal spaces are the best place to put this, but they shouldn't be viewable by customers.

  11. Jul 23, 2011

    Anonymous

    Hi, If I only wanted to give permission to only one user to be able to add a personal label, how can I do that? I'm an administrator trying to give a regular user access to that. Would I have to give them Global Permission?

  12. Aug 25, 2011

    Anonymous

    I have 12 users who created new profile spaces.

    3,4 of those are not visible to all team members.

    Users have been instructed to enable viewing/editing to all.

    There are no restrictions applied.

    Permissions are set to all users as a standard

    No caps lock in any of the 4 users names.

    Can you help? We are using profile spaces as communication channel for FAQ navigation for all employees when contacting HR, so its rather important it works for these 12 users/

    Thanks!

  13. Nov 07, 2011

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to restrict system administrators from being able to access pages in a personal wiki space?  We have executive staff that want to be able to have pages secure to their personal spaces but they also don't want to allow the other administrators access to those pages.  Is that possible?

  14. Dec 01, 2011

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to change the default view of a personal space to one of the other three layouts? I selected a layout I don't like and would like to switch it to the Documentation view.