Space Settings

Space Settings is where a space administrator turns classification on for a space, chooses the classification levels people can apply, and sets the banner size. You reach it from your space’s Classification settings page, or through the byline onboarding flow.

The page has three sections, top to bottom.

The Classify Space Settings page for a single Confluence space.

Status

A card showing whether classification is Enabled or Disabled for the space.

• When disabled, the only action is the primary Enable classification button. Until you enable it, page editors cannot classify pages.
• When enabled, the levels and other controls appear below.
• When your levels came from a global template, the card also names that template and warns that your levels are template-managed (see below).

Classification levels

This is the heart of the space configuration: the list of classification levels page editors can pick from.

Where classification levels come from

You have two ways to populate levels:

1. Apply a global template (recommended) — use Add from template to copy a ready-made set of levels published by your Confluence admin. This keeps your space consistent with the rest of the organisation. Once applied, the levels are copied into your space.
2. Build your own — use Add level to create levels from scratch.

The status card names the template your levels came from, so you always know the source.

Template-managed levels

While your space is linked to a global template, the template is the source of truth for its levels:

“Levels here are managed by the <template> template. If an administrator re-applies it to this space, changes you make here are replaced. Unlink to manage levels independently — this clears the levels currently in the space.”

You can still edit levels locally. Editing the template itself changes nothing in your space — the replacement happens when a Confluence administrator re-applies the template to it.

If your space needs its own levels permanently, ask your Confluence admin to adjust the template, or use Unlink and build the levels yourself. Note that unlinking deletes the levels currently in the space — it does not keep a local copy of them.

What is in a classification level

Each classification level has:

Field	Purpose
Name	For example Public, Internal, Confidential. Shown in the byline and banner.
Colour	The colour dot in the byline and the colour-band banner.
Description	Short explanation; shown on hover and on image banners.
View restriction groups	Confluence groups allowed to view pages at this level.
Edit restriction groups	Confluence groups allowed to edit pages at this level.
Label	The Confluence label added to classified pages (for example INTERNAL).
Page header style	image, colour, or none — see Page Banner.
Header image	The banner background, when the style is image.
Banner text size	How large the level name and description appear on the banner — see Banner text size.

Caution

The view and edit groups directly change who can access a page. Double-check them before letting page editors classify important pages — applying a level restricts the page to exactly these groups.

Reordering levels

Once you have levels, you can drag and drop to reorder them. The order is the order page editors see in the picker.

Header image editor

When a level’s page header style is Image, you get a header image editor:

• Select background — choose from the built-in predefined header themes (no upload needed).
• Upload background — upload your own image; the level name and description are drawn on top and can be repositioned by dragging on the canvas.
• Remove — appears only for uploaded or previously saved custom images; clears the image.

Images are saved automatically when you save the level — there is no separate “save image” button.

The level name and description are not part of the saved image. They are drawn over it when the page is displayed. This is what allows them to resize to fit the banner, and it means you can change the wording later without touching the background.

Editing a classification level’s header image.

Levels created before this change

A classification level whose header image was created earlier still has its text inside the image. It keeps rendering exactly as before, but it ignores the banner text size controls and does not resize to fit.

To convert one, re-select its background (Select background or Upload background) and save. The editor shows a hint when a level is in this state.

Banner text size

Each classification level sets its own text size for the banner:

Setting	Range	Default
Level name	16–72	42
Description	10–32	20

These are authoring sizes rather than final pixel sizes. What page readers actually see also depends on the space’s header image size: a Small banner has very little room, so large values are scaled back down to fit.

The editor shows the size each choice will really produce at your current header image size, and tells you when the banner is too short for the difference to show — in that case, switch the space to Auto.

These controls sit in the level form, so they apply to Colour page header styles as well as Image ones.

[Screenshot needed: the Banner text size controls in the level form, showing the rendered size hint beneath a slider]

Manage global templates

If you are also a Confluence admin, a “Manage global templates ↗” link appears in the levels section header, taking you to the global template library. It is hidden for non-admins and while you are editing a level.

Header image size

A secondary setting at the bottom controls the banner height for the whole space. It applies to every image and colour banner in the space.

Size	Height
Small	80px
Medium (the default)	160px
Large	240px
Auto	Grows to fit the description, between 80px and 320px

Auto is the option to choose when your level descriptions run long. The fixed sizes shrink the text until it fits the banner; Auto keeps the text at its configured size and grows the banner instead.

The trade-off is that a text position you dragged in the header image editor is not applied in Auto mode — the level name and description use a standard stacked layout. See Page Banner for the full comparison.

When a global template sets the size

If your Confluence admin has set a header image size on the global template your levels came from, a note here tells you which size that is.

Your local choice still applies day to day, but re-applying the template will replace it — in the same way it replaces the levels.

Unlinking from a global template

If your levels came from a global template and you want to start fresh:

1. Use the Unlink action.
2. Confirm in the warning dialog.
3. The space resets to disabled with no levels, and is removed from the template’s linked-spaces list.

After unlinking you can re-apply a different global template or build levels manually.

Blocked spaces

If your Confluence admin has blocked this space via Space Access Control, the whole settings page is replaced with an informational message and all controls are hidden — you cannot enable classification here. See Space Access Control.

Related

• Global Templates — where global templates come from.
• Page Banner — how page header styles render.
• Classification Report — see what has been classified.