Adding custom information (metadata) to Confluence Spaces

[Scott Savarese]

I'm looking to add metadata to my spaces. In particular I want to add an owner. I know that Spaces don't have an "owner" It is really just who has admin access to the Space and there can be more than one of those. So I was thinking about using the Description field. Maybe add a line in it that says "Owner: myuser". Then in my custom macros, I'd use Velocity languange to split out the field and the value and display it.

What are people's thoughts on this? Is there a better way to do this? What do other people do?

[Giao Ton]

Hi Scott, 

Can you please show me where the Description field is ? I'm looking for it but haven't found one. Thanks. Giao

[Robert Reiner _smartics_]

You can find the description for a space by clicking on the cog icon (lower left) which opens the "Space tools" (Confluence server).

In the "Overview" (click first item on the Space tools menu), then on the tab "Space Details" click on "Edit Space Details" to change the description.

You need to have sufficient privileges to access the space tools.

Here is more information:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-how-do-i-access-space-tools
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/navigating-to-space-tools-379879932.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/edit-space-details-792498668.html

[Colm Maguire]

So if the user is admin of the space is already known by the system, what advantage do you get in adding an owner to the meta data ?