This page is part of the guide to developing technical documentation on Confluence Wiki. We have already shown you how to create your technical documentation space. Now we offer an introduction to the templates that Confluence provides.

Quick guide to templates in Confluence

  • A template is a page with predefined content that can be used as a prototype when creating other pages.
  • Templates are available across the Confluence site (global templates) or per space (space templates).
  • Both 'global templates' and 'space templates', as described on this page, define the content of a page. They do not define the content of an entire space.
  • You can import predefined templates, including those shipped with Confluence and additional templates from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
  • To create a template for an entire space, see our guide to creating your documentation space.

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Deciding Where to Put Your Templates

Confluence では、ページ テンプレートに以下の 4 つのカテゴリがあります。
  • Space templates - These templates are available in a specific space only. If you have space administrator permission, you can define templates from the space administration screen.
  • Global page templates - These templates are available in every space on your site. If you have Confluence Administrator permission, you can define global templates from the Confluence Administration Console.
  • Blueprints - Blueprints are templates with added functionality to help you create, manage, and organize content in Confluence, and there's a collection of predefined ones that ship with Confluence. You can also download additional blueprints from the Atlassian Marketplace. You can customize the blueprint templates to suit your individual needs, disable particular blueprints or even develop your own blueprints.
  • System templates - Confluence also provides 'system templates' containing content like the site welcome message and default space content. See Administering Site Templates. If you edit a system template, it is referred to as a custom or edited system template.

Decide whether your template is useful across more than one space.

  • If yes, create a global template. You will need Confluence administrator permissions.
  • If no, create a space template.
    • You will need space administrator permissions for the relevant space(s).
    • You may have already saved your documentation space as a template, as described in our guide to creating your documentation space. In that case, it may be useful to save your template page in your template space. When you later copy the space, the template pages will be copied too.

Creating a Global Template

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See Administering Site Templates for more information.

Creating a Space Template

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See Adding a Template for more information.

テンプレートのインポート

Confluence ships with a number of templates, including the 'Charts', 'Document List' and 'Meeting Notes' templates. These templates are not available for use by default. However, if you have the appropriate permissions to access the Administration Console, you can import any of these templates to be used globally or within a specific space. In addition, you can find more template bundles on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.

  1. Log in to Confluence as an administrator.
  2. Choose the cog icon  at top right of the screen, then choose Confluence Admin.
  3. Choose Import Templates. The 'Import Templates' screen will appear, listing the template packages deployed to your Confluence instance and the templates included in each package.
  4. Select the templates you want to import.
    Note: You can view a preview of the template by clicking the template name.
  5. Choose the destination to Import To. If you want the templates to be available to your documentation space only, select the name of the space, otherwise select 'Global Templates' to make the templates available to all spaces.
  6. Choose Import to import the selected templates.

Using a Template to Create a Page

When people create a page on your Confluence site, they can choose to base their new page on a template.

Go to the page that will be the parent of your new page, and choose Create.

All available templates for that space will display, select a template then choose Next.

次のステップ

You now have a good idea of how Confluence templates work. What next? Take a look at Re-using Content in Technical Documentation.

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