How to manage changes to an admin-only space template in Confluence?

Colin Winchester

I use an admin-only space to serve as a project wiki template.  For new projects, I use the Copy Space and Copy Page Trees.  However, as I change the template over time, is there a functionality that would let me publish changes to the template space and automatically update the existing project spaces (essentially, change control of the template to existing spaces)?  Otherwise, I either have projects with previous versions of the template or I have to manually make the changes to each project space.

Stephen Sifers

Hello Colin and welcome to the Community,

Excellent job creating template spaces and using them. It seems you really see the advantage to standardizing roll-outs. While you are using templates in the proper manner, something to be away of is the shortcomings you are experiencing. Template are a single points in time create and will not be updated as you update the template. Templates are a single page created in mirror of the template. Once created they are disconnected from the template.

As you stated, if you update the template to a new version, any pages that were created from that template will not receive the update.

There may be an add-on within the marketplace that might allow for what you’re looking for. We would suggest you take a look at the marketplace for Confluence Add-Ons for Documentation.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers