Undo and clean-up
Undo archives by default, so nothing is destroyed unless an admin has deliberately allowed it.
Undoing a creation
A Confluence admin opens the Spaces made tab and presses Open and undo beside the creation. On the creation’s page, under Undo this creation, the button says what it will do: Archive space CLACME for a space Space Factory made, or Move 12 pages to the trash for pages it added to a space you already had. Only the person who started a creation, or a Confluence admin, can undo it.
Space Factory first tells you whether anyone else has worked in the space since. Undo works for as long as your admin keeps the record of the creation — 180 days unless they change it, and it stops when that runs out (see How long undo lasts, below).
- Archiving hides the space from everyone but keeps it. Nothing is deleted, and a Confluence admin can bring it back from Space settings at any time. This is the default and usually what you want.
- Permanent delete is only offered when a Confluence admin has turned it on and no pages or blog posts in the space have been added or edited by anyone else. It asks you to type the space key. A deleted space skips the trash and cannot be brought back by anyone, including Atlassian support.
The check for “has anyone worked in it” reads the pages, the blog posts, and every comment on them. One thing it cannot check: attachments, because Confluence doesn’t record who added one. A permanent delete would take those too. If the space has more pages than Space Factory can read comments for in one go, it says so and will not offer a permanent delete at all. If in doubt, archive.
Pages added to a space that already existed
When a creation added pages to a space you already had, undo takes only the pages that creation made, and moves them to the space’s trash, where a space admin can restore them until someone empties it. Pages other people added or edited are left alone — and so is every page above them. If somebody put a page of their own three levels down inside what the creation made, undo keeps the whole chain above it and takes the rest. Your page stays where you put it; it is never left dangling at the top of the space because the pages between were trashed.
A creation that stopped partway
Everything it had already made is still there. You can retry from the step that stopped, or undo to remove what it made. Nothing is left half-built without the screen saying so.
Pausing everything
A Confluence admin can turn on Pause every new creation on the Templates tab. Nothing new starts, and creations already running wait where they are; they carry on by themselves once the pause is turned off. Undo still works. It’s the switch to reach for during a Confluence upgrade, or if something looks wrong.
Before you uninstall
Undo anything you want removed first. Uninstalling deletes the app’s own records — the templates, the requests and the history of what was created — and undo needs those records. Spaces and pages the app created stay where they are: they’re your content, and uninstalling never deletes anyone’s work.
How long undo lasts
A Confluence admin chooses how long the record of a creation is kept, from 7 days to 10 years, 180 days by default. Undo works from that record, so once it is cleared out the creation can no longer be undone — which is the thing to weigh when shortening the setting. The spaces themselves are never touched by this: they stay exactly where they are, and a Confluence admin can still archive or delete a space the ordinary way.
The Spaces made tab lists the 200 most recent creations.