@Anja Brkljacic what you describe is how confluence works. Where you are, is where your page will be created. Just like in a Microsoft folder structure, if a user is in their personal folder and they go "right click, create new" it will create it there. In both cases, they can be moved retrospectively if placed in the wrong location.
Why would you want to have every page created by anyone default to the one location in Confluence? Again, using the Folder comparison, that would be like forcing all "Word" documents to be saved into one folder for a whole company.
Also, if everything automatically saved in the "general space", then personal spaces would be redundant, as you wouldn't be able to create anything in them. Not to mention any other spaces that perhaps exist??
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March 22, 2022 edited
Thank you for your input @Anja Brkljacic@Curt Holley. If you do not want your page to default to your personal space, please first navigate to your destination space and then hit the create button. Then, your page will be created where you intend. Hope that helps!
@Curt Holley I know that is how Confluence works, but what is not logical to me is that when I click "Create" from my dashboard-which isn't a space-it defaults to creating the page in my personal space. We are a small team (7 employees) and right now only have 1 main space where all of the info should live, and we haven't been using personal spaces at all. It is a challenge to get people to use Confluence sometimes, as opposed to OneNote or Word which is what they're used to, so telling them that they now how to click into the General space to create a shared page or manually move the page will just hinder adoption. This is why what @Avni Barman suggested isn't the ideal solution for us. It sounds like I will need to see with my teammates if they anticipate using the personal space and if not, disable them for now.
Based on what you've said, it is a shame the personal spaces were ever created (which is just one of the reasons why soooo many people didn't/don't like the idea).
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June 2, 2022 edited
Adding another valuable comment from an Atlassian customer that heavily uses Confluence as well!
About the reason why we don't want this feature: 1/ we have 15.000 active users (27.000 since the 9 years of Confluence in my company) and only 6.300 personal spaces --> not all users want a personal space.
2/ We find this feature not convenient in the case of a migration from datacenter: either we have to migrate all the personal spaces before any user connect. Or we will need to ask him/her to delete the space that was auto-created at his/her first login before we could migrate his/her former space.
Let's admit that creating a personal space with 5 default pages for any user logging to the cloud, even if it will never use it (again, in my company, 19.000 people chose to never create a personal space) is time and ressource consuming: For Atlassian when performing action like backup, or needing to provision for more disk space and for us each time we do something that needs to query the SPACES table, it will be slightly slower.
Also let face the truth: Confluence does not scale on many aspects, and having "only" 15.000 (8300 global + 6300 personal) is painful enough, I can't imagine if we had 19.000 more. What if we have a total crash and you need to restore our whole instance ? Very unlikely scenario ? ;)
@Avni Barman - I have a personal space with tons of data used for my work; when I returned form OOO I have been locked out for going on three weeks now. I did not lock my space; others, including admins are unable to help me unlock. I've submitted two tickets through the help desk with no response. searching here and in the community for help. I've really been crippled without access! :-( Can you direct me somewhere additionally for assistance?
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This is a horrible change. Image an org with thousands of users, if you enable personal spaces you instantly create thousands of spaces that will never get used except by a handful of users. We want the ability to control if they are auto created.
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