Create an index space to learn what it is and what it is used for.
Background Information
Index Space
An index space is a Confluence space that stores information in form of documents that are relevant for all other spaces. There is only one index space per Confluence instance. The index space is a tool for information reuse.
An index space allows to specify space properties that are used as defaults for all depending space.
Hands-on Steps
Create an new space that will be your index space.
Create an Agile Project Space
The Core Doctypes Add-on provides the index space blueprint.
Until 8.x
Prior to version 9.0 of the Core Doctypes: Select the
Agile Project Spacespace blueprint for the creation of your index space.
Choose
IDXfor the space key of your index.
If you cannot use
IDXas the space key, use any other key. The only drawback is that you have to set the index space for all your spaces explicitly.All spaces delegate to the space with key
IDXper default. To switch off this default behaviour, set use-default-space tofalse.For more information refer to: delegate-space.
Have a look at the new index space (for versions prior to 9.0)
The new index space provides homepages to store documents that are relevant to all your spaces.
Specify a Space Property
The space property extract-short-description-from-metadata-table controls whether a short description is rendered within the properties table of a document or in front of it.
Sample Page with Short Description
First we need to create a page with a short description (for this exercise only):
- Create a page with the projectdoc Blank Document Blueprint
- Provide a name and a short description, then check the box to send the document to its homepage
- Click '
Create' to see the document in the editor
- Click '
Save' at the bottom of the page
This is the new document:
Add a Space Property
Now add a property to the space homepage.
- Open the homepage of your index space
- Click '
Edit' to edit the homepage - Add a property named extract-short-description-from-metadata-table and value
true(choose hide as a value for the third column, which is called the property control) to the table within theDocument Property Marker Macroat the top of the document
- Save the homepage
Finally have a look at the test document you created in the index space in the previous step.
The short description is rendered in front of the properties table. The space property extract-short-description-from-metadata-table controls the rendering of every document in the space (or any space that delegates to this space and does not override this property).
Tips staying sane
- To have a look at the currently set space properties, add the Display All Space Properties Macro to a page
- projectdoc is picky with the entered values: There must not be any markup for the space property name or value, just the pure text value. Use the Confluence Source Editor Add-on to check the values
- To have a look at the document properties in the view, use the Display All Document Properties Macro Macro
- The Document Properties Marker Macro allows to override space properties with the Override parameter
