Does the name change of the area have any impact?

[Carolin]

I would like to change the name of a space in Confluence. Does this have an impact? So that links no longer work, is no longer displayed as a favorite or observations have disappeared?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It will only break things outside confluence that are using the name in a search, and most people would not have any need to be writing external searches that do that.  Links, locations, access, all the internal functions, all totally unaffected. 

Now, if you were to change the space's key, that is a different story...

[Pramodh M]

Space key is not editable @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- from UI

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I know, but it's remarkably easy to change during migrations or with apps.

[Laura Holton _ACE Rotterdam_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Carolin 👋

Welcome to the Community! Changing the Space Name won't break anything as it is not used in any links, macros, etc., changing the Space Key would have an impact but luckily this cannot be easily done.

I hope this helps but if you have any other questions just ask away 😃

All the best,

Laura

[Pramodh M · Accepted solution]

Hi @Carolin 

Basically No Impact on Space (But Space Home Page Name will not change here, if you need to change it edit on Home Page)

Here are the complete details on changing Space Name

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Rename-Name-of-the-space-and-also-the-space-Home-page/qaq-p/1401801

Thanks,
Pramodh

[Rilwan Ahmed · Accepted solution]

No impact as only name will be changed and not key. Page urls will show page ID instead of names sometime and its OK