Confluence is getting a fresh new look and navigation

We’re in the process of rolling out these changes and the documentation may not match your experience. Bear with us while we update it to reflect the new changes. More about navigating the new Confluence

Create a new whiteboard

Whiteboards aren’t available in Atlassian Government environments.

There are two ways to create a whiteboard today in Confluence.

  • Option 1 — Select the Create button in the navigation, and select ‘Whiteboard’. This will create a whiteboard in the space you are currently in or will default to your personal space/whichever space you have edit permissions.

Selecting the whiteboard option from the create button
  • Option 2 — Select the + button next to the Content section in the space sidebar, and select ‘Whiteboard’ to create a whiteboard in your space.

Selecting the whiteboard option from the content tree create button

You can also create a whiteboard under a page/whiteboard using the + button that appears when hovering over the content’s title in the sidebar.


Get started with a template

When you land in a new whiteboard you will be prompted to select a template from our template picker.

Select from a number of best-practice templates from the Atlassian Team Playbook to help you get started.

  1. Hover over a template in the template picker.

  2. Select Use template.

To prevent this picker from showing on each whiteboard load, uncheck the box ‘Show when creating a whiteboard'.

Selecting a template from the template picker dialog

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