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A template is a pre-defined page that can be used as a prototype when creating new pages. Templates are useful for giving pages a common style or format. For example, a software development project may have a template for use-cases; or a systems administration space, a template for defining what information is being kept about each server.

In Confluence, there are two types of templates:

Global Templates : These are defined by the site administrators through the Administration Console and are available in every space.
Space Templates: These are defined by space administrators in the space administration screens, and are only available in the space in which they are defined.

Global templates can only be created by site administrators and space templates by space administrators.

Templates are written in Confluence's regular wiki markup, using special markup to define form fields that need to be filled in.

Here is an example:

Confluence 1.4 User Guide > Working with Templates Overview > template.gif

Confluence 1.4 User Guide > Working with Templates Overview > information.gif NOTE
Currently, templates can only be used to create a page. Once a page is created, the template is gone and all further editing is performed as if the template was never used. In the future, templates will be expanded to do more interesting things such as remaining part of the page, having more complex (and even dynamic) fields, being able to search Confluence based on the value of particular fields, and so on.

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