Customize your space's overview Confluence Cloud

Table of Content

• Marketing
• Knowledge base templates to empower your ITSM teams
• By team function
• Confluence spaces make work more efficient
• Step 2: Add structure and consistency
• Customize your space's overview
• Take charge of software development
• How to build Confluence spaces for any team or project - Work Life by Atlassian

In our example here, we update the space home page title to be the space name and a suffix of "Home Page". Open a Terminal and navigate to your workspace directory. To show you how to build a kickass Confluence instance of your own, we transform gaming company Arctic Rim’s instance in seven steps using Refined. Learn how to structure, organize and theme your new Confluence instance with Refined. The Atlassian Community can help you and your team get more value out of Atlassian products and practices.

You can find a full list of Confluence templates here. The Product roadmap template will guide you to communicate details about the work your team is doing over the course of the next year. Set up Confluence Cloud Get the high-level details you need to set up your Confluence Cloud site in order to meet your team's needs.

Marketing

The space homepage features the team’s picture and mission, and provides links to their most important work, such as their quarterly goals and blogs they’ve posted internally to the company. This example finds blog posts to display in a blog roll with labels. These examples use basic authentication with a username and password.

However, for sites where you want to encourage teams to collaborate, the dashboard provides the best tools for resuming work in progress and keeping up with what is happening in the site. To display a colored lozenge that you can use to report project status. You choose the color of the lozenge and the text that appears inside it. The Product team for Confluence keeps their space simple and to the point with very visual links to the most important dashboards and plans. Our Design team takes a practical, minimalist perspective with their space.

Knowledge base templates to empower your ITSM teams

Just as ateam calendarhelps those visiting your team space understand what you are up to, using a roadmap planner or a team calendar is helpful for tracking your project’s important deliverables and milestones. You can also track deliverables in Jira Software, which helps everyone understand just how the projects are going. You can either embed the calendar in the space, or link to the page .

In this post, we’re going to give you the tools to create Confluence spaces like a pro, plus real-life examples of how you can structure your team and project spaces to get the most out of Confluence. The Status Macrodisplays a colored lozenge that is useful for reporting project status. You can choose the color of the lozenge and the text that appears inside the lozenge. Reload your plugin and you should be able to see two additional fields, Description and Heading in the dialog wizard and have it passed through to the created space home page. During the creation of your new space, you might want to ask the user for some information in the create dialog. In our example here, we will add a space description field.

By team function

You can set the space parameter to show this for just your space, or, if you have related spaces, to show the most recently updated content across all of those spaces as well. Now that you know how to create Confluence Space blueprint plugin you’re ready to explore more about blueprints. Check out tutorial for (/server/confluence/write-an-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/) or try to write (/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/write-an-advanced-blueprint-plugin). At this point, you have created a skeleton space blueprint plugin. Work with the content modules in the layout editor to display the content users want to find first on site homes, category homes and space homes.

Refined allows you to organize spaces into categories, which sit in a top navigation menu on your site’s homepage. From product requirements to marketing plans, create it all in Confluence. We’ve got a template that’s a perfect fit for your project. This can be useful if most people will be reading, rather than creating, pages in your site.

Confluence spaces make work more efficient

Anyone on the team can quickly see who we are and what our teammates are currently working on, and also gain an understanding of important upcoming deliverables. Use the Favorite Pages Macroto create a list on your home page of all the pages you've saved for later, so you can easily navigate back to any of them. You can connect Confluence to any Jira application, including Jira Software and Jira Service Management. This example shows how to convert wiki markup to storage format.

If your site is public, you'll also need to make sure anonymous users have permissions to view the space, otherwise anonymous users will be directed to the dashboard instead. Use the recently updated macro to display a list of content that has been updated most recently. You can adjust the macro settings to display content from the current space only, or from related spaces as well. Use the livesearch macro to add a search box to the overview, then adjust the macro settings so the search only returns results from the current space. Use the user profile macro to display a short summary of a specific Confluence user, including their profile photo, role, and contact details. If it's important for your visitors to know about the latest changes to your space, you can use the Recently Updated Macroto display a list of the most recently updated content.

We will also add a custom heading field to display it on the space home page. Start sites if you want users to log in and begin at a specific site. View permissions to define who can see what content on a site, category and layout content sections. Start sites allow you to set home pages according to users or user groups. So when members of Arctic Rim’s IT team log in, for example, they could be automatically directed to their IT team space homepage.

Typeand the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. If your Confluence site is connected to a Jira application, you can both create and display your Jira issues without having to leave Confluence using the Jira Issues Macro. You can connect Confluence to any Jira application, including Jira Software and Jira Service Desk.

The Master project documentation template serves as a one-stop shop for information on a specific project, with links to other important pages. The Team homepage template from Hubspot is preformatted with all the details visitors to your space will need to understand who your team is and what work you’re doing. If your Confluence site is connected to Jira, you can use the Jira issues macro to display a list of issues your team is working on. Use the Content by User Macroto keep track of all the current pages, comments and spaces you've created so you can find everything you've been working on in one place. The Livesearch Macroallows you to add a search box to a Confluence page, and you can set it to only find content within your space. However, even if you've started with a blank space, you can still customize your home page to make it easier for everyone using that space to navigate their way around and find useful content.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a very simple space blueprint plugin that can only be installed on Confluence Server. To create a blueprint for Confluence Cloud head to Multi-page blueprints with Confluence Connect. Paste in page URLs to create smart links, or use the content report table macroto create a list of all the pages in the space. When you create a space, Confluence automatically creates an overview for that space.

If at any point you decide that you would like another page within your space to be your home page, you can easily change this from the Edit Space Details tab. Use the Task Report Macroto keep track of all tasks assigned to you, and tick them off as you finish them.