Synchronizing home pages across multiple pages within a space

Jeevan Pillai

Hi there, I'm currently working on building a space in Confluence which will be home to about 6-8 teams. Each team is allocated a page within the space, and the content of each page is to be decided by each team respectively. 

However, I intend to have the homepage of each team's landing page follow a standardized layout based on a template (which has already been created), where editing the "master" template would propagate those changes to all homepages made using that template. 

Is there a way this can be done? Thank you 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, there's no way to do this with templates.  Templates are only used for creating the initial version of the page at the time of creation.  Changing a template has no effect on pages that were created using it, and Confluence doesn't even bother to record which template was used, because it doesn't matter.

Instead of thinking of templates (because templates are not for doing what you're thinking of), I'd look at what each page has in common with the others, and make use of macros that draw in content to repeat common functions or data.  The include and include-excerpt macros are the first ones to try.

The idea there is that your main home page would be along the lines of:

• Title: team home page
• Introduction to the team
• Include page from current space that holds current team biographies/headshots
• Include page from global space that talks about what each team does
• Include a list of upcoming company events from a page in the global space about the events
• and so on