Does editing/deleting a template impact pages based on the template?

[Mohammed Iqbal]

We are following a template for all our documentation, now I want to change the overall design of these documents. Which is a better route for this? Creating a new template? Editing the existing one? If I were to edit the template, would the documents based on this template be modified automatically? Does deleting a template affect them?

[Alana Fernando]

hi @Mohammed Iqbal,

you may proceed with editing the existing template. 

• already created documents will not affect by the change
• deleting the template will not affect any created confluence pages. 

hope this info helps you ! :-) 

[Mohammed Iqbal]

It does help!

Thanks a ton!

[Alana Fernando]

:-) glad to help you. 

[Gilberto Almeida Neto]

@Alana Fernando Hi Alana,
I am currently struggling with the opposite problem of Mohammed and I wonder if you have a solution.
I want my edits at the template to appear in all documents that previously used them.
Is there a way to do it?
Or an alternative to do it faster. I don't want to recreate all pages again every time I have to change a template.

[Alana Fernando]

hi @Gilberto Almeida Neto to the best of my knowledge this is not possible in default confluence. :( 

[Gilberto Almeida Neto]

Thanks either way. I am trying to adapt with the Excerpts now.

They seem to work for what I want

[Alana Fernando]

if you are ting to use the exact same content in all the pages then yes. excerpts would be ideal.