In Confluence, content is organised into spaces. There are two types of space: Global spaces are areas on your site into which you can group content items (pages, attachments, news, etc) based on any subject or topic of your choice. For example, you may want separate areas on your site for each team or project within your organisation. Personal spaces belong to specific users. They can be kept private, or opened up so the whole world can view and edit them, just like global spaces. These spaces are listed in the People Directory. They are not listed on the 'All' tab on the dashboard. On this page:

What is a Space?

Each space:

• Has its own pages, blog posts, comments, RSS feeds and mail (mail applies to global spaces only).
• Has its own access control settings. You can set different levels of access for different spaces.
• Can be separately exported to PDF , HTML or XML.

There is no limit to the number of global spaces you can create in Confluence.

Viewing the Spaces in a Confluence Site

Confluence displays a list of spaces in the following locations:

Guidelines for Dividing Content into Spaces and Pages

To ensure maintainable and logical spaces, consider the following points when allocating your content to pages and spaces:

• Group the content by topic, subject, project or team.
• Evaluate permissions across the wiki content. If members require conflicting access, for example John must access content on topics A and B, while Jane must access content for topics B and C, then the topics should be separated into three spaces.

Useful notes about spaces and pages:

• Spaces cannot be nested. You cannot have parent and child spaces, but you can have parent and child pages within a space.
• Page permissions can prevent users from accessing a specific page, even though they have permission to access the space.
• Page permissions alone cannot keep the existence of a page secret. The page should be in a restricted space instead.
• Pages can be moved between spaces.
• You can group related spaces, using space categories.

Example – Favourite Spaces as Shown on the Dashboard

The screenshot below shows the area of the Confluence dashboard that displays the spaces that you have marked as favourite:

Related Topics

Setting up a New Global Space
Setting up your Personal Space
Viewing All Confluence Spaces
Browsing a space
Moving a Page
Deleting a Space
Viewing Space Activity
Using Labels to Categorise Spaces
Administering Spaces

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