Does temporarily enabling people to create their own personal space automatically create those space

Question

I am a Confluence site admin. One of the Confluence users can't create a personal space. I read answers from similar questions that on Confluence Cloud, a personal space is an area in your Confluence site that is automatically created for you. If its not created for you and create option is not available, it might be that your Site admin have not granted global permission to create "Personal Space" to confluence-users. Also, you can't create a personal space for another user directly. You would have to enable "people can create their own personal space", get the user to use the option, then disable it again.

My question is, when I temporarily enable "people can create their own personal space" option, will personal spaces be automatically created for all the other users before I disable it? As a site admin, I don't want everyone to have personal space. I only want that user, and any other future user that requests for a personal space, to have their own personal space.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Soaad Hossain

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

If you enable the option then all users newly granted access to your Confluence instance from that moment forward will have Personal Spaces created, until you disable the option again. It will not create personal spaces for the pre-existing users.

We chose to go with the same implementation that has been suggested by @Ramin Shanehsaz _Computerra_ . We turned it off globally, and then created a group to which people could be added if they wanted to create a Personal Space.

Ramin Shanehsaz _Computerra_ · Answer

Hi Soaad,

To manage this effectively, you can create a specific group in Confluence and grant personal space permissions exclusively to this group. Here's how:

* Go to Administration (cog icon) -> Security -> Global Permissions.
* Assign the rights for personal spaces only to this designated group.

This way, you'll have complete control over which users can create personal spaces or have them created automatically.