Copy options

1 Overview | 2 Copy Options | 3 Advanced Copy Options

Overview

You can copy a space as it exists at a point in time to another space. The copy options are configured in the space tools Copy Space dashboard.

The Copy space configuration copy options are retained for each copy but a new target space must set for each Copy Space action.

Copy Options

You can configure Copy Space to

copy selected document types (pages, blog posts or both)
ignore top-level pages (the home page and orphan pages)
delete existing pages in the target space
include labels or match labels on existing target space documents

The content to be copied for each document can also be configured in the Advanced Options.

Copy Option	Default	Description
Copy Pages	Checked	Checked (Default) pages are included in the copy Unchecked if not checked, pages are ignored in the copy
Ignore Top-level Pages	Checked	Checked (Default) the space home page and other orphan pages are not copied Unchecked the space home page and other orphan pages are copied
Copy Labels	Checked	Checked (Default) include labels when copying pages or blog posts the sync-label (if set) is not included in the copy Unchecked no labels are included when copying pages or blog posts
Copy Blog Posts	Checked	Checked (Default) blog posts are included in the copy Unchecked if not checked, blog posts are ignored in the copy
Delete target space content (pages and blog posts)	Unchecked	Unchecked (Default) delete existing pages and blog posts in the target space that are not in the source space Checked do not delete existing pages and blog posts in the target space that are not in the source space
Match Labels	Checked	Checked (Default) if a page exists in the target space, update labels to match documents in the source space Unchecked if a page exists in the target space, labels are not updated to match documents in the source space Selecting this option adds missing labels on any blog post or page that already exists in the target space content.

If you want to replace the target space home page with the source space home page you can set the Copy Options to Delete Pages added in the Target Space

Advanced Copy Options

The Advanced Options for content to be copied for each Copy Space action includes

copying content properties

copying latest version update comments
replacing source space references with the target space key
copying page restrictions

The copy date on the target space pages can be configured to the copy date or to be the modification date of the source space document.

The copy can be also be configured to copy the page or blog post version corresponding to an applied Comala workflow final state version.

Advanced Option	Default	Description
Set modification date as copying date	Unchecked	Unchecked (Default) the copied document modification date will be taken from the item in the source space that is being copied Checked for copied pages and blog posts in the target space the modification or creation date will match the date the copying occurred
Copy Content Properties	Checked	Checked (Default) copied pages and blog posts in the target space will include properties associated with other apps Unchecked copied pages and blog posts in the target space will not include properties associated with other apps Page properties are attributes associated with pages usually defined by other plugins. Only properties with prefixes specified in Confluence global admin are published. Refer to the specific app configuration to determine the prefix of the properties to be published.
Copy version comments	Checked	Checked (Default) the most recent “What did you change?” recorded comment on a user update on the source space document is published as the page update comment on the target space copy Unchecked no “What did you change?” recorded comments on a user update on the source space document are published on the target space copy
Replace source space references	Checked	Checked (Default) replace all the local space references (`[SPACEKEY:PageName]`) with the target space key Unchecked do not replace space references with the target space key
Copy Scaffolding	Unchecked	Unchecked (Default) pages and blog posts copied without data related to the ServiceRocket Scaffolding Forms and Templates app Checked copied pages and blog posts include data related to the ServiceRocket Scaffolding Forms and Templates app only the latest version data will be copied
Use final state version	Unchecked	Unchecked (Default) latest version of all pages and blog posts copied Checked copy the version of the page and blog post corresponding to the Comala Document Management workflow final state pages that do not have a final state are not copied
Copy page restrictions	Checked	Checked (Default) page restrictions on the source space document are copied to the target space page restrictions in the target space are replaced Unchecked page restrictions on the source space document are not copied to the target space