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The Copy Space app allows

a user with create space

users with ‘create space’ permissions to copy a space, including the pages, page

hierarchy

hierarchies, attachments, labels, templates, themes, settings, properties, and permissions, but excluding (so far) page history, blog posts, and email.

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Features 

  • Copy an entire space, including pages, page hierarchy, attachments, labels, templates, themes, settings, and properties.

  • Optionally copy space permissions (or use defaults or make the new space private).

  • Optionally, copy page permissions.

Status

  • The status bar

that

  • gives real-time feedback on the progress of the job.

  • Log that can be copied to the clipboard for troubleshooting.

  • Ability to rename spaces

Ability to rename

  • and page titles

User Guide 

Click on Space Settings

  • .

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Copy a space

  1. Click Space settings in the left navigation bar.

  2. Click the Copy

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2. Enter a new name in the 

Space

New Name and a new key in the 

Space

New Key for the space. This will be the name and

the

key for your new space. 

3. Select Save 

Permissions 

Users who wish to copy a space need to have permission to create a new space for the copy. This permission is granted by a site administrator via global site permissions. The user copying the space needs to be in a group that has the "Create Space(s)" permission enabled.

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  1. Now select Permissions. You can choose to retain the space's original permissions, use Confluence's default space permissions, or choose private space permissions as required.

  2. Under Page options, select the required options to copy to your new space. You can copy page permissions, attachments, labels, and properties. Note that, the page history, blog posts, and email are excluded while copying the space.

  3. Under Page Title options, enter prefix so all copied pages have the title prefix. 

  4. Optionally, you can use the search and replace options so that the copied page titles will use these to search for or replace the matches entered here.

  5. Click Copy to copy the space. The copy space app also allows you to copy logs to the clipboard for troubleshooting purposes. Refer to the status bar for real-time feedback on the copy progress.

Permissions 

To copy the space, you must be in a group with the Create Space(s) permission enabled. Please contact your site administrator to enable the permissions.

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Note

The user who copies the space gets full permissions in the new copy.

However, if the user who copies the space is an administrator and selects the

"

Use the original space's permissions

"

option,

then both

the

"

All

→

> Delete Own

"

and 

"

Mail

→

> Delete

"

permissions

will

are not

be

set for any group or user in the new copy. This is an Atlassian bug.

 

You can set these permissions manually after the copy.

Limitations 

The current version of the Copy Space app has a copy limit of 2000 pages

. We set this page limit in an attempt

and a time limit of one hour. This page and time limit were set to gauge traffic. If you need a larger copy allotment, please submit a support request.

The current version of the Copy Space app has a time limit of one hour.

Info

  • Unless you have

a large number of

  • many attachments, a space with 2000 pages should copy in 15 to 20 minutes.

We set this time limit in an attempt to gauge traffic. If you need a larger copy allotment, please submit a support request.  InfoIf

  • The operation will likely time out if you have more than ~10,000 attachments but less than 2000 pages

your Copy will likely time out

  • . The

Copy with

  • copy will still be complete

however

  • , though the final stage will not be done. Your

Space

  • space will be missing a home page; instead, it will have a placeholder there,

& you will have 

  • and an [ in progress ] text will be shown before the being of your space.

  • If your space meets

those requirements

  • these conditions, you can either perform a simple clean-up

afterward or you can ask us with

  • later or raise a support request to

expand

  • extend the

time out

  • timeout. 

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