Adding custom information (metadata) to Confluence Spaces

Question

I'm looking to add metadata to my spaces. In particular I want to add an owner. I know that Spaces don't have an "owner" It is really just who has admin access to the Space and there can be more than one of those. So I was thinking about using the Description field. Maybe add a line in it that says "Owner: myuser". Then in my custom macros, I'd use Velocity languange to split out the field and the value and display it.

What are people's thoughts on this? Is there a better way to do this? What do other people do?

John Price_dcio76 · Answer

I'm answering this super late. Since spaces can have many admins including groups, owner is a good way to list the primary contact for a space. Once you get owner set to a reasonable value for every space, you can just use that as a list of people to notify about confluence changes or involve in cleanup efforts.

Colm Maguire · Answer

So if the user is admin of the space is already known by the system, what advantage do you get in adding an owner to the meta data ?

Robert Reiner _smartics_ · Answer

You can find the description for a space by clicking on the cog icon (lower left) which opens the "Space tools" (Confluence server).

In the "Overview" (click first item on the Space tools menu), then on the tab "Space Details" click on "Edit Space Details" to change the description.

You need to have sufficient privileges to access the space tools.

Here is more information:

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-how-do-i-access-space-tools
* https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/navigating-to-space-tools-379879932.html
* https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/edit-space-details-792498668.html