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Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By : Eren Kalelioğlu
Book Image

Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By: Eren Kalelioğlu

Overview of this book

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment. This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases. You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment. Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Preparing for Confluence
7
Part 2:Building a Real Confluence Site
13
Part 3:Scaling Business

Creating, deleting, and managing personal spaces

Now that we understand the importance of personal spaces, let’s dive into how to create, delete, and manage personal spaces.

Creating and deleting personal spaces

Creating a personal space in Confluence is as simple as clicking the Create Personal Space button in the profile menu. Now, note that once you create a personal space, it’s there to stay; deleting it might mean losing valuable content. It’s wise to think twice before hitting delete.

Also, it is necessary to set which user groups will have a personal space on Confluence. This setting is done from the Global permissions section, as seen in the following screenshot. Remember that you need to be a Confluence administrator to access these settings. To edit Global permissions, click the gear icon in the top nav bar to view your site’s settings.

Figure 9.3 – Global permissions on Confluence

As you can see, the...