how do you manage spaces? who can create spaces?
Asked by Harini Gangaraj:

Hi all,

Could some one give examples of how to set permissions and how to manage spaces? should everyone have permission to create spaces?


Answers:
author: Kesha Thill
body: Hi [@Harini Gangaraj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804758)!

I'm on the Confluence marketing team and this is a great question that we receive a lot. Space setup is unique to each company, and it depends how you want your company to be using Confluence. Generally we recommend spaces for:

1. teams (i.e Confluence Marketing team space, Jira product team, Confluence product design team, etc.) - in your team space, all work related to your team would be here. My team puts all of our quarterly goals, meeting notes, project plans, campaign plans, blog drafts, etc. here.
2. personal space - I use my personal space to just brainstorm, take my own notes, draft up copy that I may move to my team space at some point, etc.
3. projects - sometimes projects are big enough that they warrant their own space due to the amount of documentation attached. For example, we may have a space solely dedicated to a new product feature because with that features comes requirements, messaging, go-to-market strategy, engineering plans, etc.

And to add extra examples - Here at Atlassian, Confluence is a pretty open workspace where we all have the freedom to create spaces for our team or for specific projects. So we keep our permissions very open throughout the whole company. The benefit of this is that everyone feels like they can both create and contribute (versus just being a bystander and consuming information), as well as take ownership of their work. If i'm owning a project, I may create a space for it and set my own permissions for that space where only I can delete pages, but anyone can contribute since I know my team will be large, I'll be getting a lot of stakeholder feedback from many different places, I'll have multiple people/teams involved that I may not anticipate yet, etc.

In regards to it getting disorganized or overwhelming, it can happen, but we also just trust that people will take the time to clean up their space, archive old pages, etc. Sometimes we give specific roles on the team, like a confluence gardener, who at the end of every quarter will go through and archive irrelevant information/pages.

Anyway - I'm babbling ? but I hope that helps a bit!

comments: author: Harini Gangaraj
body: Hi [@Kesha Thill](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1037833),

Thank you for all the suggestions. We are a very small team for now. I will keep your suggestions handy.


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Harini Gangaraj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804758),

Here are my suggestions:

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1. Allow each user to create their own private space  

2. The system administrator is responsible for creating the public space

![space.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29549i93A0DFEC2DAE1BF3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "space.png")

For space permissions, please refer to:

<https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/docs-69/Global+Permissions+Overview>

comments: author: Harini Gangaraj
body: Hi [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638) , Thank you - this is exactly what I was looking for.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Harini Gangaraj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804758),

we use the same setting in our company as Ollie described. I would not let anyone create public spaces. I assume, this would end up in a extremely large number of rarely used spaces.

If someone needs a space, we create it according to our company CI and set some basic permissions and other settings, add them to overview pages etc.


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483)But every body should be able to create personal space, as this make sense to me


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: [@Moses Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1138700) - you're absolutely right, I forgot the word "public" above. Every user should be able to create a personal space, if she / he wants to.

Thank you


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Harini Gangaraj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804758)

* To manage space please see here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/administer-a-space-792498663.html>
* To create space and who can see here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/create-a-space-792498598.html>

Best!

comments: author: Harini Gangaraj
body: Thank you [@Moses Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1138700) for the very quick reply. Should everyone in the team have permission to create spaces in an organization. Will it be difficult to manage too many spaces? We just installed confluence - please excuse me if I am asking dumb questions


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Harini Gangaraj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804758)It depends , on what you define in you global permission, if you give this users/group then they will be able to .


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi,

We allow the creation of public spaces. However, we use our App Space Tree Creator (STC). This App allows the creation of a space based on a STC-space (any Confluence space) and the authorizations to be copied from the STC-space. Possible usages are project spaces, quotation spaces, etc.  
You can find our Space Tree Creator on the Marketplace.

Regards,  
Stephan (CEO of EPS Software Engineering AG, the vendor of the Space Tree Creator)