Spaces and Pages
Nexus, Spaces, and Pages
Nexus, Spaces, and Pages
Three levels. Content sits at the bottom, access control sits at the top.
graph TD N[Nexus] --> S1[Space: Engineering] N --> S2[Space: Handbook] S1 --> P1[Page: Architecture] S1 --> F1[Folder: Runbooks] F1 --> P2[Page: Deploys] F1 --> P3[Page: On-call] S2 --> P4[Page: Onboarding]
Nexus
A Nexus is the top-level container. Everything, spaces, pages, groups, members, belongs to exactly one Nexus.
You reach the list of all Nexus at /nexus, titled Your Nexus. Each one is a card. A single Nexus opens at /nexus/{id} and shows its spaces.
A Nexus has a name and a slug. The slug is fixed at creation: the Edit nexus dialog shows it read-only with the hint “The URL slug cannot be changed.”
Membership is per Nexus. Roles are owner, admin, member, and guest. The person who creates a Nexus becomes its admin.
Delete a Nexus
Owners and admins of a Nexus can delete it from its card on Your Nexus: right-click the card and choose Delete, or choose Edit and press Delete at the bottom left of the Edit nexus dialog. Both open the same confirmation, titled Delete and the Nexus name. It counts what goes with the Nexus (its spaces, pages, page versions, comments, attachments, labels and templates) and reads:
The nexus and everything in it will be deleted permanently. Nothing goes to the Trash.
Type the Nexus name to enable Delete nexus. People keep their accounts; only their membership of this Nexus ends. Cancel deletes nothing, and if you came from Edit nexus, the dialog comes back as you left it.
Its audit history outlives the Nexus: every entry moves to the instance audit log, and its details name the deleted Nexus.
A space that was moved out of this Nexus earlier keeps its pages, files, templates, Confluence sync and requirements in the Nexus it lives in now. It loses what still belongs to this Nexus: the labels from here on its pages, allocations of its requirements to this Nexus’s systems, links to external items mirrored here, and open repairs from imports made here. When there are any, the dialog counts them in rows that name other nexuses.
If the Nexus gains or loses a space while the dialog is open, nothing is deleted and the dialog says so. Close it and choose Delete again to see what the Nexus holds now.
The Nexus section of the admin panel offers the same delete on each row. See Admin Settings.
Spaces
A space groups related content inside a Nexus. Think of it as a section, a team area, or a product.
A space has a name, an optional emoji icon, and a visibility setting. What it is FOR is written in its primer, which also carries the one-line brief shown under its name:
| Visibility | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Private | Only members can access |
| Public | Anyone in nexus can view |
Beyond that toggle, you can grant specific groups and users one of three permission levels on a space: can_view, can_edit, or full_access. Deleting a space requires full access.
Pages
Pages are the documents. They live in a space and nest under each other with no depth limit.
Two built-in types:
| Type | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Page | A document you edit in the rich text editor. |
| Folder | A container. Opens a directory listing of its children instead of an editor. |
Plugins can add more document types (a Kanban Board, for example). They appear alongside Page and Folder in the create menus.
Pages carry their own visibility, which defaults to Inherit (use the parent’s visibility) and can be overridden to Public or Private.
What each level controls
| Level | Controls | Contains |
|---|---|---|
| Nexus | Members, roles, groups, admin settings, slug | Spaces |
| Space | Name, icon, primer, the Everyone level (what a Nexus member gets without a grant), per-group and per-user grants, labels | Pages and folders |
| Page | Title, icon, content, visibility, properties, labels, version history, comments | Child pages |
Where things live in the URL
| What | URL |
|---|---|
| All Nexus | /nexus |
| One Nexus | /nexus/{id} |
| Space | /space/{id} |
| Page | /p/{title-slug}-{shortId} |
| Folder | /folder/{id} |
Page URLs are hybrid: the title slug is cosmetic and the trailing 8-character short ID is what actually resolves. Rename a page and old links still work.