How to prevent automatic Space Shortcuts generation for certain blueprints

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Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.

Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Summary

When you use certain blueprints such the Meeting Notes blueprint in a space, Confluence will create an index page and add a shortcut on your space sidebar under Space Shortcuts section (when using default theme). Automatic shortcut creation can be disabled from Database for specific blueprints.


Environment

6.13, 6.15, 7.x

Cause

Certain blueprints index page creation has been set to true by default for the blueprints like meeting notes, troubleshooting, and others.

You can get a list of current index statuses for blueprints from AO_54C900_CONTENT_BLUEPRINT_AO table in the Confluence database:

(info) Table will only be populated after the first page using any blueprint is created.

select "ID", "NAME", "INDEX_DISABLED" from "AO_54C900_CONTENT_BLUEPRINT_AO";
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------+
| ID | NAME                                 | INDEX_DISABLED |
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------+
|  1 | how-to-blueprint.name				|       FALSE	 |
|  2 | troubleshooting-blueprint.name		|       FALSE	 |
|  3 | file.list.blueprint.title			|       FALSE	 |
|  4 | meeting.notes.blueprint.title		|       FALSE	 |
|  5 | decisions.blueprint.title			|       FALSE	 |
|  6 | sharelinks.blueprint.title			|       FALSE 	 |
|  7 | task.report.blueprint.title			|       TRUE   	 |
|  8 | health.monitor.blueprint.title		|       TRUE	 |
|  9 | projectposter.blueprint.title		|       TRUE 	 |
| 10 | dacidecision.blueprint.title			|       FALSE 	 |
| 11 | experiencecanvas.blueprint.title		|       TRUE 	 |
| 12 | requirements.blueprint.title			|       FALSE	 |
| 13 | jirareports.blueprint.title			|       FALSE	 |
| 14 | retrospectives.blueprint.title		|       FALSE	 |
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------+
select ID, NAME, INDEX_DISABLED from AO_54C900_CONTENT_BLUEPRINT_AO;
+----+----------------------------------------+----------------+
| ID | NAME                                   | INDEX_DISABLED |
+----+----------------------------------------+----------------+
|  1 | how-to-blueprint.name                  |              0 |
|  2 | troubleshooting-blueprint.name         |              0 |
|  3 | calendar3.spacecalendars.blueprint.key |              0 |
|  4 | file.list.blueprint.title              |              0 |
|  5 | meeting.notes.blueprint.title          |              0 |
|  6 | decisions.blueprint.title              |              0 |
|  7 | sharelinks.blueprint.title             |              0 |
|  8 | task.report.blueprint.title            |              1 |
|  9 | health.monitor.blueprint.title         |              1 |
| 10 | projectposter.blueprint.title          |              1 |
| 11 | dacidecision.blueprint.title           |              0 |
| 12 | experiencecanvas.blueprint.title       |              1 |
| 13 | requirements.blueprint.title           |              0 |
| 14 | jirareports.blueprint.title            |              0 |
| 15 | retrospectives.blueprint.title         |              0 |
+----+----------------------------------------+----------------+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Solution

You can disable automatic shortcut generation for different blueprints, below example is for Meeting Notes, but index page creation can be enabled or disabled for any type of blueprint on the list.

Always back up your data before performing any modifications to the database. If possible, test any alter, insert, update, or delete SQL commands on a staging server first.

Modifying data directly in Confluence database is out of scope for Atlassian Support. These instructions are to help provide guidance if these changes are absolutely needed.


  • Run the following command to disable index page for meeting notes blueprint. Make sure ID and NAME values match output from previous command for any blueprint type.
update "AO_54C900_CONTENT_BLUEPRINT_AO" set "INDEX_DISABLED"=true where "ID"=4 and "NAME"='meeting.notes.blueprint.title';
update AO_54C900_CONTENT_BLUEPRINT_AO set INDEX_DISABLED=1 where ID=5 and NAME='meeting.notes.blueprint.title';
  • Disabling index page generation will not remove existing Space Shortcuts, those need to be manually deleted from Space Tools > Configure Sidebar menu.


Last modified on Mar 10, 2023

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