Every new user has a space created automatically

Question

When a new user is added to my companies confluence instance there is a  space automatically created for each user, that is public, and has default pages created for that space. This makes searching for our actual project/team spaces difficult as we now have over 150 spaces when we really should only have ~20.

What permission do I need to change in order for new users to not have a space automatically created?

Is there a way to remove these spaces without having to manually delete them?

Shannon S · Answer

Hello Philip,

Thank you for raising this on Atlassian Community. I'm aware of a new onboarding process that creates these personal spaces for new users. There's a feature request for the ability to disable that feature, which I'll share below.

* CONFCLOUD-71300 Ability to disable the personal spaces creation automatically

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Thank you again for bringing this up, and take care.

Shannon

Davin Studer · Answer

Do you have an app or script that is automatically creating the personal spaces? I am unaware of anyway in the administration UI to have it automatically create a user space. There is the global permissions which gives the user the ability to create their personal space, but that checkbox does not automatically create it.

Fabienne Gerhard · Answer

Hi @Phillip Leonard

welcome to this wonderful community

Please have a look on global permission settings in Confluence Cloud - and turn it off for the group for personal space

Hope this could help!