Working with Spaces

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. In Confluence, you can set up a different space for each team or project. You can build content for each of these spaces individually, decide who its users are, and even archive mail separately within each. There is no limit to the number of global spaces you can create in Confluence.
• Personal spaces belong to particular users. These spaces are not listed on the dashboard (see below). Instead, they are available in the People Directory. Personal spaces can contain pages and blog posts. People can search or browse them. They can be kept private, or opened up so the whole world can view and edit them, just like global spaces.

What is a Space?

A space is an area within Confluence, containing your wiki pages. You can think of each space as a sub-site, or mini-site, each with its own home page.

Each space:

• Has its own pages, blog posts, comments, bookmarks, 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.

You can view all the global spaces within a site on the dashboard. You also group global spaces together into 'Team Spaces' or 'Favourite Spaces' to enable easy access to the content that is most relevant to you. See Customising your Personal Dashboard.

Guidelines for Dividing Content into Pages and Spaces

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

1. 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.
2. Group content by topic, subject, project or team.

Useful notes about spaces and pages:

1. Spaces cannot be nested. There is no hierarchy of spaces, but there is a hierarchy of pages.
2. Page permissions can prevent users who can access the space from accessing that page.
3. Page permissions alone cannot keep the existence of a page secret. The page should be in a restricted space instead.
4. Pages can be easily moved between spaces.

Example

The screenshot below shows the Confluence dashboard, displaying 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 Pages within a Space
Moving Content from one Space to Another
Deleting a Space
Viewing Space Activity
Administering Spaces

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