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titleCreating pages
Creating Pages

Creating a new page can be done by selecting the space or a page and

  • clicking Content and New Page

    • then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Clicking on content and new page
    • Clicking the new
    clicking the new
    • page button
  • pressing n
    • Pressing n
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    The page will appear in the Space Admin Browser tree.

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    If a page with the automatically generated title "New page" already exists in the destination space

    the

    , creation will fail. First, rename the old page with the name "New page" into something more meaningful.

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    There are several ways to copy pages in Space Admin

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    Copying a single page

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    To copy a single page, select the page in your Space Admin Browser

    and 
  • click Edit and Copy

    • and then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and copy
    • Click 
    • copy button
    press
    • Press c
    use
    • Use the context menu
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    In the

    now opening

    next window, a destination space and an

    optionally

    optional parent page have to be selected.

    In addition some

    Some additional options for the copy can be

    dis-

    disabled/enabled.

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    Furthermore, a page prefix or suffix can be chosen. When choosing this option, the child pages' names will be appended with this prefix/suffix.

    This is helpful if there is already a page with the same name

    on

    in the destination space

    /page

    , which is not allowed in Confluence.

    The page title will have then this structure:

    prefix + actual name + suffix. 

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    You can also use a regular expression

    (info) All child pages will also receive the prefix/ suffix.

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    By using regular expression, it is possible

    to search and replace page names.

    The copied page will be listed in the Space Admin browser after the copy process is completed.

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    A new version can only be created in a different space. 

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    Copying multiple pages

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    Copying several pages with some of their sub-pages is possible by selecting the pages with Ctrl+

    click and 
  • clicking Edit and Copy

    • left click and then by one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and copy
    • Click on
    clicking
    • the copy button
    pressing 
    • Press c
    using
    • Use the context menu
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    The

    opening

    next window offers the same options as

    the window opening

    those available when copying only one page.

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    Copying a page with Ctrl

    It is possible to copy

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    Copy a page

    with Ctrl via

    by pressing Ctrl + left click on a page and then drag and drop

    by selecting the specific one and pulling it

    to the

    place it should be copied.

    desired location.

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    The page will be copied

    The copying is done (warning)

    with default parameters and a copy of all its child pages.

    An icon will show if copying is possible.

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    A page cannot be copied into its own child pages if the page to be copied has child pages.

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    But If there is already a page with the same name on the destination page, then the newly copied page will be renamed and appended a consecutive number.

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    Copying a page to multiple spaces

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    titleSince Version 2.1.0

    This

    is

    has been a useful feature when

    one uses

    using page templates in similar spaces, by allowing the copying of a single page

    in

    into multiple spaces, as defined in a Space Shuttle category.

    To copy a page to multiple spaces, select a page in the Space Admin browser and

    then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and then copy
    click Edit and then Copy
    • page to multiple spaces
    click
    • Click the
    Copy
    • copy page to multiple spaces button next to the
    Copy
    • copy button

    The following screenshots show an example of copying a page to multiple spaces.

    Firs

    First the page is selected from the desired source space

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    Then the spaces are chosen

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    The spaces are selected by choosing a category previously configured in the Space Shuttle (in our case Customer,

    Customer

    which contains 3 spaces).

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    Then, the result is as expected, all the spaces in the Customer category now contain

    now

    the copied page.

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    Deleting
    Pages
    pages

    Using Space Admin for Confluence

    offers the possibility to

    , you can delete single or multiple pages including child pages.

    To delete a single page select the page in the Space Admin Browser tree and

  • click Edit and Delete

    • then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and delete or
    • Click on
    click
    • the delete button or
    press 
    • Press Del
    use
    • Use the context menu
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    A window will open. The option Delete child pages is enabled by default.

    To not delete child pages the option has to be disabled. The

    Disable this option to only delete the selected page.
    The former child pages will be sorted underneath the top

    -

    level page.

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    If there are no child pages this option will not be shown.

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    In addition the pages can be deleted without storing them in the trash.

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    You can permanently delete pages by checking the option "Don't trash pages. Remove them".

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    Deleted pages with this option checked cannot be restored

    . Deleting

    and deleting multiple pages works the same as deleting one page.

    Renaming Pages 
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    You can rename pages

    AnchorrenaimingrenaimingRenaiming pages is possible

    by selecting the page

    that should clicking 

    to be renamed and

    choosing 
  • clicking Edit and Rename

    • then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and rename
    • Click on the
    • rename button
    pressing 
    • Press F2
    using
    • Use the context menu

    The action will be completed by entering a new name and confirming by pressing enter or clicking somewhere else.

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    It is not possible to assign an identical page name twice in one space.

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    Pages can be moved by selecting them and then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on edit and move
    • Click on the move button
    • Press m
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    Pages can be

    ordered via

    reordered using drag and drop or with the move function

    so that

    to move pages and

    its children can be moved into

    their children to another space.

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    Moving a page into a space

    with other pages with identical names

    containing a page with an identical name is not possible. You have to rename one of the pages before they can be moved.

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    Pages can be moved by selecting them and 

    • clicking Edit and Move
    • clicking the move button
    • pressing m

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    The opening window offers the possibility to decide in which position


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    A window will open where you can choose the target space and optionally, a page in that space that the selected page should be moved to.

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    This option compares pages and highlights the differences. Use it

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    Comparing Pages

    This option easily reveales differences between pages. It can be used

    by selecting the pages

    via

    through Ctrl+ left click and

    • clicking View and Compare
    • clicking compare button
    • pressing d
    (info) The

    then by choosing one of the two available orders (From A to Z or from Z to A).

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    The compare feature can be executed in two directions. It depends on the order in which

    order

    the pages were selected.


    To compare pages, use one of the following options:

    • Click on view and compare
    • Click on the compare button
    • Press d

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    The window will

    expose

    highlight the differences

    . For this, different colors are used

    using the following colors:

    • Green:
    Someting was
    • what has been added
    • Red:
    Something was
    • what has been deleted
    • Blue:
    The
    • the format has changed

     

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    titleViewing
    PagesViewing Pages in Confluence can be done directly
    pages

    To preview pages in the Space Admin Browser

    . The preview of

    select a page

    is possible by slecting the one and
  • clicking View and Preview

    • and then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on view and preview
    • Click on
    clicking
    • the preview button
    pressing 
    • Press v
    using
    • Use the context menu
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    A window will show a little preview of the page you

    've

    have selected.

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    The links in the preview dialog are disabled.

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    titleSetting a new
    Homepage
    home page

    A little

    house

    home symbol shows the current homepage. This can be changed within the Space Admin Browser by selecting a new page and

    then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on
    clicking
    • the Set Homepage button
    using
    • Use the Context menu
  • pressing h
    • Press h


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    Publishing
    Pages
    pages

    To publish a page choose

    the Publish

    the publish option in the context menu of a page or use the publish button.

    If you create a version the following will happen:

    the
    • The page
    which should
    • to be published will be copied into another space
    the
    • The current page with the same name in this space will be overwritten
    a
    • A new version will be created in the Confluence page history
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    This is a good way to maintain documentation

    for example.

    .

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    You have a public space and a private space with identically pages. In the private space you change the content of the documentation and

    can

    work on it without affecting the public documentation. When you are finished

    with editing and so on

    you can publish the new documentation to the public space.

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    Pages cannot be published in the same space!
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    Page labels
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    The editor will show all existing labels from all selected pages, posts, and attachments.

    Labels can be added to all selected entities or deleted from the entity where it is set.

    This can be handeled

    You can do this by selecting

    the

    a specific page and

    then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click
    clicking
    • the label button
    using
    • Use the context menu
  • clicking Content and Labels
  • pressing l
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    • Click content and labels
    • Press L


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    There are 3 options that can be chosen when editing the labels:

    • Add: Add new labels to the page
    • Set: Overwrite the existing labels on the page with the new ones
    • Delete: Delete the entered labels from the page
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    You can only add, set, or remove labels if you have the permission to edit the page.

    Page Permissions
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    All pages in the current spaces which have a restriction will be highlighted in red.

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    If

    , if a page has any restrictions they can be seen by selecting the page and

    then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Use
    using Show
    • the highlight page restrictions button
    clicking View menu and 
    • Click on the víew menu and Show Page Restrictions


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    All pages in the current spaces which have a restriction will be highlighted in red.

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    Add Page Permissions

    Page Permissions can be added by selecting all pages that should have the specific permissions and clicking the Add Page Permissions button.

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    In the

    opening

    next window that opens a group or user, and the specific permission can be selected.

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    Deleting Page Permissions

    To remove page permissions

    a

    , you can delete specific user or group permissions

    can be deleted

    .

    In addition

    You can also select and remove the view

    -

    and edit

    -

    permissions node

    can be selected and removed

    at once. Furthermore, the page/blog post or the restriction node can be selected to delete all page/blog post permissions.

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    Selected itemOption when clicking the delete button
    PageDelete all page permissions
    Restrictions node
    View/edit nodeDelete all view/edit
    permissoins
    permissions
    user/groupsDelete the user/groups permission
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    Use the window shown to search for specific users and groups.

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    User/group information can easily be viewed in the Space Admin Browser. It is useful to check which users are in a specific group.

    By selecting the specific group and clicking the User/Group information button, all group members will be shown in a popup window.

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    In the shown popup window

    also user and groups

    it can be searched

    so that a selection of a specific group isn't necessary.

    for specific users and groups.

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    Check the following table for more helpful shortcuts to save you time while managing your pages.

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