Why do templates and pages have different editing capabilities?

[Kathryn Deming]

I'm trying to recreate a page as a template and I don't have the same controls. Please help.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Because they do different things.  Templates are static, used to create a page in a shape.  The functions you're missing from templates are for doing the more dynamic things that you would do when editing a page.  And vice-versa.

[Kathryn Deming]

That makes sense, however, other team members have an editing view that I don't have access to even though I'm a site admin. I need the editing bar that appears in the second global template. How do I get access to this? Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Confluence is moving to a new editor.  Existing pages made under the old editor are not compatible, so when you edit an existing page created with the old one, you get the old editor.

New pages will use the new editor.