Can you apply a Template to an Already exiting page?

[Mark Stephan]

Here's the situation.

We have a KB to transition to Confluence. We can't wait for Design. So we're moving the articles now. Once the design is done with the templates, can we just apply those templates to pages? 

[Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_]

Hi Mark Stephan and Welcome,

Unfortunately Space or Global Templates only applies to page creation, existing content need to be manually adapted.

See Page Templates article.

When you add a new page, you don't have to start from scratch. Instead, you can base your new page on a template – a Confluence page with predefined content. Some templates are provided by blueprints or Marketplace apps, and you can even create your own templates.

Have you further questions about this?

Kind Regards

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm not sure it's "unfortunate" - I think there's a very large majority of people who don't want their content randomly updated with potential junk because someone changes a template.

But there's nothing wrong with "I want to identify pages created from a template that has changed so we can see if changes should be applied".