This page last changed on Jan 18, 2004 by cmiller.

Page Families

When you create or edit a page, you have the option of setting its parent page. This allows you to create hierarchies of parent-child relationships between pages. It is a simple but effective way of grouping related pages together, and making navigation of your site simpler by providing links forward and backwards through the page hierarchy.

To create a child page, you can choose the Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. Add Child Page option from the Page Operations menu. Alternatively, you can just type a parent page name into the "Parent Page" field in any page creation or editing form.

When you view a page that has a parent, the "Location" breadcrumbs at the top of the page will list the parent, for ease of navigating back up the page hierarchy. Also, when you view the Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. Page Information for any page, the "Hierarchy" section at the bottom of the information page will show all of the page's ancestors and descendents.

Child pages are listed in the collapsible "children" area at the bottom of the parent page. To insert an automatically generated list of child pages into a parent page, you can edit the page to include the children macro (described in the macros section of the notation guide).

A page can only have one parent. Confluence will only allow you to create page families that are a simple tree: you may not set a page to have a parent that is already one of its own child-pages.

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Posted by at Feb 06, 2005 20:39

thx,I see.

Posted by at Mar 19, 2005 02:16

Is there any way to control the order of child pages without renaming them alphabetically? This would be useful for example when exporting to PDF so you get a proper order for the pages.

Posted by at Mar 29, 2005 19:15

I have the same problem, like described above.
Is there any solution to this ?

Posted by at Apr 29, 2005 05:15

No, not yet. Please vote for the issue here if you haven't done so already:

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1031

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by dave@atlassian.com at Aug 23, 2005 19:57

I do not see any way to change the parent-child relationship of the page.   Maybe I am blind but I have looked all over the edit form and I see nothing like this.  Any ideas?

Posted by carlton.brown@bellsouth.com at Nov 02, 2006 20:55

While editing a page, underneath the page title is a line that starts with "Location:". At the end of that line is a highlighted "EDIT" link. Click that link and the controls for changing the parent of the page appear.

Posted by don.willis@atlassian.com at Nov 05, 2006 18:57
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