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Important definitions - Confluence Tutorial

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Important definitions

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- [Narrator] Before we get started, let's define some common terms. Think of a page as an online document. Pages are used for evergreen content like documentation or team policies that's used and updated over time. A post is also an online document, but it's used for time-based content like news or announcements. Posts are organized by publish date and like blog articles on a website. In this course, I'll refer to pages and posts interchangeably. Pages and posts contain many types of content like text, images, embedded videos, attachments, macros, and more. Both belong to a space which is a collection of Confluence content. There are two types of spaces, global and personal. A global space is a container for all team information. It's a shared area where users can view, create, edit, and store content. There's generally one global space per department, team, or for large initiatives that involve multiple teams. For example, a Confluence global space called Human Resources stores benefit information, policies, forms, and the new hire process, or a global space called Development is for reusable code snippets, deployment notes, and the person responsible for each repository. Here's some example content that you might find in an HR department's global space. This example contains Confluence pages, blog posts, forms, and checklists. A personal space is just like it sounds. It's an area to store content just for you or content you're working on that's not quite ready to publish yet. A personal space contains content for just one user. It's important not to store information useful to others in a personal space. Consider this example. I create an awesome proposal for an employee recognition program and I save it to my personal space. Then unfortunately, I leave the company. The knowledge that this proposal exists leaves with me, too. After my departure, the application admin team archives my personal space as part of their standard cleanup procedure. My work isn't gone but it's not very visible, either. As a result, my awesome idea dies before it was passed on to others to implement.

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