Only create from template?
Asked by Marya Belanger:

Is it possible to prevent users (say, anyone besides space admin for example) to create blank pages? So whether they click the "Create" button or the dot menu right next to it, they'll be presented with the template selection dialog box.

All of our space organization hinges on certain labels being used, which trigger workflows, notify relevant people, etc, so it's really inconvenient that people can bypass the templates.


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Marya Belanger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4529218) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community. Thank you for contacting us!

At this moment I am afraid this is not possible. The feature request for this already exists and you might want to vote for the below :

* [CONFSERVER-53447](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53447) *Allow to configure behavior of the "Create" button*
* *[CONFSERVER-33745](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-33745) Ability to Remove/Hide Blank Page in Create Dialog*

++**Work arounds:**++

As a workaround, a solution is that you could use the [Create from Template Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html). On any page, you can include this add-on to ensure that users are creating pages from the template that you specify.

Also, You can promote specific templates within individual Spaces. See[Promote templates in the Create dialog](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-templates-296093785.html#PageTemplates-PromotetemplatesintheCreatedialog)for more details.

Hope the above information helps. Have a good day. Take care.!

Thanks,

Srinath T

comments: author: Marya Belanger
body: Appreciate the response. It seems the answer for every seemingly obvious feature in Confluence is "not possible; here's an 8 year old ticket going no where", which is really unfortunate.

A huge part of documentation architecture is automating and standardizing the creation and consumption of content in every way possible. Every bit of overhead where a user just has to "know" what to do (like knowing they need to press the menu button next to **Create** to meet our guidelines) detracts from necessary community involvement, or at the very best creates a lot of busy work for documentation management (in turn detracting from more impactful but less urgent doc work).

This isn't directed at you and I do appreciate you providing context, just very frustrating for someone who's been trying to improve doc standards at a huge company for the past year and has been met with brick walls or at best huge undertakings for minimal reward at every turn.


author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Hi [@Marya Belanger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4529218) ,

you can hide the *Create* button by placing the following to Confluence Administration ? Custom HTML ? At the End of HEAD

```
<script type="text/javascript">
AJS.toInit(function(){
    AJS.$('#quick-create-page-button').hide();
});
</script>
```

Creating blank pages will still work using the shortcut **c**

Hope that helps!

Kind regards,

Nicolai

Edit: That's a site-wide functionality and can be done by Confluence Admins only.

comments: author: Marya Belanger
body: Thank you!


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