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title: "Space Publishing global configuration"
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> Add the Confluence group permission for publishing and copying, set the publishable spaces, properties prefixes to be copied and set the global sync label for content

## Space Publishing Global Administration

Global administrators can configure settings for Comala Publishing in the **Space Publishing global configuration** for the app.

![image](media://e3bc839a-07d4-49b8-9013-1f48f050a77a)

<span style="color: #172b4d">The global configuration screen allows you to manage the general configuration of the space publishing and </span><span style="color: #172b4d">[copy space configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649923457)</span><span style="color: #172b4d">.</span>

> 📝 The **Send Usage Statistics** option enables/disables usage statistics for the whole app including snapshot publishing.

## Space publishing

![image](media://fbc6a9b8-e4ba-4240-8a40-fd71a19d0e8d)

A global administrator can edit

- **Permission settings** to
  - set the users who can publish and sync content (**Publishers Group**)
  - list the **Publishable Spaces** that can be published or copied (default is **ANY** space in the instance)
- **Properties prefixes** for content properties that can be copied or published
- **Label** is the content label hat can be used as the **sync-label** (if required) to define pages and/or blog posts that should be synchronized when a draft space is published

> 📝 **Properties prefixes** and the **sync-label** can also be used when using **Copy space** to make a one-off copy to a target space.

## Permissions settings

Global admins can define

- the space administrators who are allowed to publish and sync content (**Publishers Group**)
- the list of spaces that can be published or copied (**Publishable Spaces**)

![image](media://12f59faf-871b-4190-bb82-5ddfafce6f07)

> 📝 Global admins can also [configure the Confluence user group whose members can make a one-off copy](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649923457) of the content.

| Setting | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Publishers Group** | Only space administrators that are a member of the Publishers Group are allowed to publish a space. | Default: `confluence-administrators` |
| **Copiers Group** | Only space administrators that are a member of the Copiers Group are allowed to copy a space. | Default: `confluence-administrators` |
| **Publishable Spaces** | Only the spaces indicated in the publishable spaces list can be published*.*<br>> 📝 This setting also defines the spaces that can be copied using **Copy space**. | Default: ANY |

The space to be published to (the target space for space publishing) is configured in the **space tools Space Publishing screen**[ ](#)in the the source (draft) space (the space to be published) 

## Content properties to be copied

Global admins can define the information stored as content properties to be copied. These settings are applied for both space publishing and the one-off **copy space**.

![image](media://a0d143fd-e3ef-4280-87a0-f7205c45d25c)

Apps such as Comala Metadata and K15t Scaffolding store information as Content Properties. Each property has its own name.

| Setting | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Properties prefixes** | **metadata**, **com.communardo** | Defines the prefixes of those properties you want to be copied for each document<br>Default values<br>- **metadata** - metadata defined by the Comala Metadata and Comala Document Management apps
- **com.communardo ** - metadata defined by the Communardo Metadata app |

## Setting the content sync-label

Global admins can set the content label that a space admin can (optionally) use to configure content to be synchronized.

![image](media://ec2bb848-87fa-458e-a6d6-67767398c876)


- include content properties when publishing
- use or ignore the **sync label** as a filter for publishing

| Setting | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Label** | Define blog posts and pages to be published. Add one or more labels in a comma-separated list.<br>This label is used as the **sync-label** for publishing (see [Configure Space Publishing Settings - space tools](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649563006)) | Default global value for the label on app install is **syncme **<br>> 📝 A space admin must choose whether to use the **sync-label** for publishing. The default [Space Publishing - space configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649563006) is to ignore the **sync-label**. |

> ℹ️ A space administrator can choose to ignore or use the global **sync-label** as a filter when using **Copy Space** to make a one-off copy of a space.

## Usage Statistics

You can also choose to uncheck the **Send Usage Statistics** checkbox to disable the sending of usage statistics to Comalatech.

![image](media://835b8aeb-a3d1-462c-8144-b09dc5c9a2b4)

> 📝 Usage statistics when enabled sends usage details for space publishing, copy space and snapshot publishing.

## Related pages

**Global configuration**

- [Copy space global configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649923457)
- [Snapshot publishing global configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649693784)

**Space configuration**

- [Space Publishing space configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649563006)
- [Copy space space configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649923457)
- [Snapshot publishing space configuration](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHP/pages/649530532)