Templates are a powerful tool to create and organize information for projects and products as a team in your Confluence Collaboration Platform.

The PDAC1 supports teams to define their own set templates. smartics also publishes sets of templates as Doctype Add-ons on the Atlassian Marketplace to get teams started. Since we do not assume to meet every requirement and minor tweaks may tremendously improve team performance and fun, these templates are also available on Bitbucket under the Apache License 2.0.

Creating templates requires none-the-less considerable resources. In case you need to document a set of a dozen documents, creating a new template may not be the way to go. Instead you want to create a document prototype and copy it twelve times. This tip shows how this can be done.

A template is used to create pages in Confluence. It defines a basic structure that is added to a page at the instance it is created. There is no connection between the page template and the page instance. Changes to the template will therefore not be reflected to the pages created by using this template. More on templates...

A blueprint is a set of templates (although typically only one). This is a tool provided by Confluence and typically there is also a wizard that supports users to create pages of a particular type. Confluence provides index pages that list all pages of a given type. The type is added as a label to the page index. More on blueprints...

A doctype is a blueprint that is a projectdoc document. It therefore provides properties and sections based on macros found in the projectdoc Toolbox. Pages based on doctypes are therefore called 'documents'. More on doctypes...