Title: Space Templates

You will find the Space Templates in the Server Settings > Spaces > Manage Templates page.

Manage Templates

Space templates allow you to collect a common set of tags, Dashboard sections, and other properties associated with a particular type of space, and to create new spaces that take on the template's properties. Tags and sections can be copied from a space template at space creation time, or at any time after.

How to Select A Template



At space creation time, click "More Options" on Add Space dialog.

Add Space

Then select a space template in the drop-down-list.

Select a template

Standard Space Templates



As of version 6.1.19, TeamPage's standard space templates are the followings.

Blog



Use this template for a space that will serve as an ordinary blog.

This template has a typical complement of tags, such as todo, done, fyi, and headline. It has Dashboard, Activity, and Tags tabs and Dashboard has "Recent Articles" section only without the section title.

Blog template example

Intelligence



This template can be used for spaces that will serve as a space for gathering competitive intelligence information.

CI template example

It has additional CI-oriented tags, such as question, objective, HUMINT, and analysis. Here is a list of the tags created as default.



It has Dashboard, Status, Activity, Tags, Calendar, and Documents tabs and Dashboard has the following sections.



Project Team



Use this template to create a space for team collaboration.

Project Management template

Besides the usual tags, this template has collaboration-oriented tags such as status, issue and meeting. Here is a list of the tags created as default.



It has Dashboard, Status, Activity, Tags, Tasks, Calendar, and Documents tabs and Dashboard has the following sections.



Wiki



This template should be used to create spaces that will be used as wikis.

Wiki Dashboard

This template has the following tags as default.



This template is special, because it some special properties. It defines only one Dashboard section, which is a specific articles section that simply points to the first article in the created project, effectively making Dashboard an authored page that is governed by a single article. In addition, Dashboard doesn't have the page title.

Since Wiki tab (Home sub-tab in Wiki tab) also displays the same article (the first article) as default, you may want to hide Dashboard tab.

Wiki Home

If so, you can do it in "Proteus Space Tabs" in Space Settings > Settings > Display page. Choose "Dashboard" and move it to the left group "Available".

Hide Dashboard

The article displayed in Wiki > Home is defined in "Home Articles" in Space Settings > Settings > Editing page.

This template sets Yes in "Name Articles by Default" in Space Settings > Settings > Editing page. Please refer to Name Articles by Default, Linking to Named Pages, and Page Name Management and Name History for details.

Wiki Name Enabled

Quality Management - Documentation (Optional)



This template is optional, included in Quality Management plug-in, designed to manage quality management documents such as standard operating procedures, training manuals, work instructions, and so on.

Quality Management Documentation

Here is a list of the tags created by this template.



These are the default sections on Dashboard.



This template selects Yeses in "Name Articles by Default" and "Require Articles in This Space to Have at Least One Name" in Space Settings > Settings > Editing page.

QM Wikiname Settings

Creating Your Own Space Template



In the Manage Templates page, you can create a new template by copying from an existing template or an existing space that has tags, sections and permissions that meet your needs for the new template, or from a scratch. When you are creating it, or thereafter, you can edit it further as necessary.

Creating a new template

If you are interested in creating your own space template, please read the Traction Knowledge Base article, How do I create my own project template?



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Doc364: Space Setup GuideDoc363: Server Setup GuideDoc360: Advanced Features and ConceptsDoc258: Server Setup - Spaces TabDoc250: Server Setup - DefaultsDoc216: Space Setup - TagsDoc22: Sections Overview
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Date: March 22, 2008; 4:14:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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