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titleCreating pages

Creating a new page can be done by selecting the space or a page and then by choosing one of the following options:

  • Clicking Content and NClicking on content and new page
  • Clicking the N new page button
  • 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,   creation will fail. First, rename the old page with the name "New page" into something more meaningful.

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titleCopying pages
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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 then by choosing one of the following options:

  • Click on edit and copy
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  • click Edit and Copy
  • click copy button
  • pressPress c
  • use Use the context menu
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In the next window, a destination space and an optional parent page have to be selected. Some additional options for the copy can be dis-disabled/enabled.

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While copying Furthermore, a single page, the page page prefix or suffix can be renamed. If you select the option to copy the child pages, you can specify a pre and suffix. When 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 in the destination space, 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 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+left click and then by one of the following options:

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

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The next window offers the same options as those available when copying only one page.

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Copying a page with Ctrl

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Copy a page by pressing Ctrl , clicking + left click on a page and then drag and dropping drop to the desired location.

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The page will be copied 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 has been a useful feature when using page templates in similar spaces, by allowing the copying of a single page 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 Edit Click on edit and then Copy copy page to multiple spaces
  • click Click the Copy copy page to multiple spaces button next to the Copy copy button

First the page is selected from the desired source space:

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The spaces are selected by choosing a category previously configured in the Space Shuttle (in our case Customer, which contains 3 spaces).

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

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titleDeleting pages

Using Space Admin for Confluence, you can delete single or multiple pages including child pages can be deleted.

To delete a single page select the page in the Space Admin Browser tree and then by choosing one of the following options:

  • click Edit and Delete Click on edit and delete or
  • click Click on the delete button or
  • press Press Del or
  • use Use the context menu

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A window will open. The option Delete child pages is enabled by default. 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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Pages You can be deleted 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 and deleting multiple pages works the same as deleting one page.

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titleRenaming pages

Pages You can be renamed rename pages by selecting the page to be renamed and then by choosing one of the following options:

  • Click on edit and rename
  • Click on the
  • Clicking Edit and Rename
  • Clicking 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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titleMoving pages

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

  • Click on edit and move
  • Click on
  • clicking Edit and Move
  • clicking the move button
  • pressing Press m
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Pages can be reordered using drag and drop or with the move function to move pages and their children to another space.

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

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In the following popup window 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 can be selected.

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titleSort child pages
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Child pages can easily be sorted ascending and descending by selecting the parent page and pressing one of the buttons in the menu bar.

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titleComparing pages

This option compares pages and highlights the differences. Use it by selecting the pages through Ctrl+ left click and then by choosing one of the

following options:
  • clicking View and Compare
  • clicking compare button
    • pressing d

    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 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

    The window will highlight the differences using the following colors:

    • Green: what has been added
    • Red: what has been deleted
    • Blue: the format has changed

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    titleViewing pages

    To preview pages in the Space Admin Browser select a page and then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Click on view and preview
    • Click on
    • clicking View and Preview
    • clicking the preview button
    • pressing Press v
    • using Use the context menu

    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 home page

    A little 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:

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


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    titlePublishing pages

    To publish a page choose the Publishthe 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 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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    Publishing pages this way can be used for maintaining a This is a good way to maintain documentation.

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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 work on it without affecting the public documentation. When you are finished 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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    titleEditing 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. You can do this by selecting a specific page and then by choosing one of the following options:

    • Clicking Click the label button
    • Using Use the context menu
    • Clicking Content and Labels
    • Click content and labels
    • Press LPressing l


    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.

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    titlePage 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 a page has any restrictions , they can be seen by selecting the page and then by choosing one of the following options:

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


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    titleAdd page permissions
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    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 popup next window that opens a group or user, and the specific permission has to can be selected.

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

    Selected itemOption when clicking the delete button
    PageDelete all page permissions
    Restrictions node
    View/edit nodeDelete all view/edit 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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    titleUser/group information
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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 it can be searched 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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