How to stop Confluence from creating private spaces on granting permission

[JD Lobue]

Our Confluence instance is set to add a private space to those that are granted access. How can I remove this?

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @JD Lobue By private spaces did you mean Personal Space ? If you want do disable creating personal spaces for your users you need to edit global permissions -

1. Click the gear icon in the top nav bar to go to your site’s settings
2. In the settings sidenav, go to Global Permissions
3. Make sure you’re in the User groups tab, then click Edit
4. Check the box to grant permission, or uncheck the box to revoke it
5. Click Save when you’re done

Changes to global permissions aren’t active until you click Save.

Hope this helps.

[JD Lobue]

I don't want to disable the ability to create personal spaces. I want to change a setting so that when access is granted to Confluence, a personal space is not also created for that user. Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid the recent "improvement" of "personal spaces for all" is the cause of this.  There's no function to turn it off yet. 

Given the complaints though, I wouldn't be surprised to see it sneak in quite soon, next to the "disable personal spaces completely" box in the global permissions.

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Hi @JD Lobue

I‘m sorry to share the bad news with you, but currently you can’t disable the automatic creation of personal spaces.

For more detail, you can read this community post.

Cheers,
Matthias