Confluence administration: Create personal space for new users

[Andreas]

Is there an easy way to setup personal spaces for new users as a Confluence administrator?

We want to provide a set of personalised pages for new employees within a pre-set personal space.

The only solution I found so far is via the Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) add on. But this would be quite a bit expensive, since we'd only use it for that purpose...

[Minh Tran · Accepted solution]

@Andreas

The latest Confluence does not have the REST api to create personal space. However our RPC method allows you to create personal space

• Space  addPersonalSpace(String token, Space personalSpace, String userName) - add a new space as a personal space.

You can refer these below pages for further information

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis/

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/remote-confluence-methods/

[Andreas]

Thank you for the hint, @Minh Tran!

I'll have a closer look into that. Since my coding skills got a bit rusty over the last years, this may take some time... :-/

To use the REST api would be a lot easier for me, do you maybe know of any planes to implement that function in the upcoming releases?

[Andreas]

I was able to create the personal space. Here's what I did:

1. Downloaded SoapUI Open Source
2. Created a new SOAP Project
   Initial WSDL: http://<confluence-install>/rpc/soap-axis/confluenceservice-v2?wsdl
3. Request "login"

   <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soap="http://soap.rpc.confluence.atlassian.com">
   
      <soapenv:Header/>
   
      <soapenv:Body>
   
         <soap:login soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
   
            <in0 xsi:type="xsd:string">username</in0>
   
            <in1 xsi:type="xsd:string">password</in1>
   
         </soap:login>
   
      </soapenv:Body>
   
   </soapenv:Envelope>

   This gives you back the authorization token for the next request.
4. Request "addPersonalSpaceWithDefaultPermissions"

   <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soap="http://soap.rpc.confluence.atlassian.com">
   
      <soapenv:Header/>
   
      <soapenv:Body>
   
         <soap:addPersonalSpaceWithDefaultPermissions soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
   
            <in0 xsi:type="xsd:string">tokenFromLoginRequest</in0>
   
            <in1 xsi:type="bean:RemoteSpace" xmlns:bean="http://beans.soap.rpc.confluence.atlassian.com">
   
               <name xsi:type="xsd:string">userNameForPersonalSpace</name>
   
               <type xsi:type="xsd:string">personal</type>
   
               <spaceGroup xsi:type="xsd:string" xsi:nil="true"/>
   
            </in1>
   
            <in2 xsi:type="xsd:string">userNameForPersonalSpace</in2>
   
         </soap:addPersonalSpaceWithDefaultPermissions>
   
      </soapenv:Body>
   
   </soapenv:Envelope>

[Minh Tran]

@Andreas Thanks for sharing back your answer.

I don't have a very clear date for the personal space REST api right now.

When we have any kind of information, it will be informed via here https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-development-releases-8163.html

[Vik]

Thank you, work for me also)