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Configure Confluence-wide permissions and functionality

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duration

45 minutes

role

Confluence Site Admin

level

Advanced

product

Confluence

Customize Confluence

Set up Confluence with the features and functions your organization needs. You’ll learn to set site security and permissions for users and groups. Then, choose your site’s title, logo, and color scheme to emphasize everything that matters to you.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Configure Confluence settings, notifications, and announcements.
  • Manage security settings, global templates, and blueprints.
  • Inspect and manage user and group permissions.
  • Control whether spaces can allow public links or anonymous access.
  • Export from Confluence spaces.
The availability of features and functionality shown in this course depends on your product subscription. To learn more about Atlassian product subscriptions, visit our FAQs.

5 Lessons in this course

10 minutes
Configure space functionality across Confluence

By the end of this lesson you'll be able to: - Define the role of the Confluence admin in managing space functionality - Configure general Confluence site settings to align with organizational needs - Configure site-wide notifications and announcements - Manage security settings across Confluence - Manage global templates and blueprints

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Sections
  • Manage global space functionality
  • General site settings
  • Notifications and announcements
  • Security settings
  • Global templates and blueprints
10 minutes
Explore Confluence permissions

The following short, self-paced courses will guide you as you learn how to design a Confluence space to fit your team’s needs and goals.

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Sections
  • Confluence permissions overview
  • Roles in Confluence
  • Licensed user permissions
  • Inspect permissions
10 minutes
Manage global permissions in Confluence

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Manage what groups of users can do in your Confluence site - Assign a space to a guest - Control whether spaces can allow public links or anonymous access - Define the default space permission configuration - Recover space permissions

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Sections
  • What are global permissions?
  • Edit global permissions
  • Manage space permissions
  • Recover space permissions
5 minutes
Customize the look and feel of a Confluence site

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Customize colors and icons for a Confluence site - Customize the application navigator - Configure page headers and footers on a global level

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Sections
  • Customize navigation
  • Add a custom header and footer
10 minutes
Export Confluence space content

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Export page content to a Word or PDF file - Export a Confluence space - Configure export settings for PDF files

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Sections
  • How do you export content from spaces?
  • Customize the PDF layout
  • Edit the stylesheet

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