Blueprints

The first time a blueprint is used in a space, Confluence creates an index page and adds a shortcut to your sidebar (if you're using the default theme). The index displays a list of pages made with the blueprint, and information selected from your blueprint pages. For example, the meeting notes index displays a list of all meeting notes pages in the space, who created them, and when they were last modified. Here's the index page for the Meeting Notes blueprint:

1. Easy to find: notes from all your meetings are listed here.
2. Start a new meeting: create a new meeting notes page here.

Customize blueprint templates

Blueprints are made up of templates that can often be customized for an individual space or the whole site. This means you can adapt the content of the blueprint pages to suit your specific needs. For example, you might update the Meeting Notes blueprint templates to include a heading for apologies.

If you have space administrator permissions, you can customize blueprint templates for the spaces you are an administrator of. You must be a Confluence Administrator to customize blueprint templates for a whole site. See Administering Site Templates for more information.

To customize a blueprint template for a space:

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2. Choose Edit beside the blueprint template you wish to edit
3. Make your changes to the template and choose Save

Editing a blueprint template is very similar to editing a page template, except:

• Be careful not to remove any macros that the blueprint page or index page may use to store and display information
• You can't remove a blueprint template or change the template name
• Not all blueprints are customizable. Some, including the Team Playbook blueprints (health monitor, DACI, project poster, and experience) can't be edited. 
• Currently, it's not possible to edit the labels of blueprint templates.

To reset a blueprint template back to the default:

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2. Choose Reset to default beside the blueprint template you wish to reset

See Working With Templates and Administering Site Templates for more information on templates. 

As with user created space and site templates, editing a blueprint template will not change existing pages, but any new blueprint pages will be based on the updated template. 

Promote blueprints in the Create dialog

Add more blueprints

You can find more blueprints for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace. Blueprints are managed using apps (also known as add-ons, or plugins). 

See Request Marketplace Apps for information on how you can search for new blueprint apps and send a request to your System Administrator. 

If you are a System Administrator, see Managing System and Marketplace Apps for information on how to install new blueprint apps. 

You can also develop your own blueprints. See our developer documentation on Writing a Blueprint.

Disable a blueprint

You may want to disable particular blueprints. For example, you may not want to see the Product Requirements blueprint in the create dialog in an HR or Social space. If you are a Confluence Administrator you can also disable particular page and space blueprints for the whole site.

To disable a blueprint in a space:

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• Choose Disable next to the blueprint you wish to disable in that space

You can re-enable the blueprint at any time.

To disable a blueprint across a whole site:

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• Choose Global Templates and Blueprints

• Choose Disable next to the page or space blueprint you wish to disable

The blueprint will not appear in the 'Create' or 'Create Space' dialogs.

Full list of blueprints

Here's the full list of blueprints bundled with Confluence.