A personal space is a space of a user of Confluence. User can add their information to pages and blog posts and make them available to their team and other stakeholders.

Personal space properties are space properties that are defined in the personal space with the Document Properties Marker Macro on the personal homepage.

Not every space property makes sense to be defined in the personal space. Some properties are restricted to be used in the personal space. Space property controls are defined for spaces and especially personal space properties to control the use of that property outside the space it is defined in.

The properties defined as personal space properties are consulted as overriding values to the properties defined in other spaces.

Typical space properties for the personal space are:

• Display Properties
  document pretend-being-a

• Display Properties
  document projectdoc-.doctype-.(doctype)-.home

• Display Properties
  document projectdoc-.subject-.(subject-name)-.home

projectdoc knows basically two kind of roles: writers and readers. Technically there is a third role called printer which is a specialized reader. The purpose of these roles is to configure the rendering. Authors have some tools that help them to access information quickly. For instance a transclusion renders a convenient border around the content so that the document from which the content is transcluded can be accessed with just one click.

There is no transclusion border for readers. The original source of the information displayed in a page is made transparent for them. Therefore this box (and its controls) are useless for the reader and must not be rendered.

Authors are able to see documents from the reader's view by setting the space property pretend-being-a to the value of reader.