Is it possible to 'turn off' nesting of pages in Confluence?

[Gordon Rutherford]

Can the nesting of pages default to the home page of a Space only in Confluence 6.15

[Bruno Costa · Accepted solution]

I'm with @Thomas Schlegel on this one; by default whenever you create a new page, it will be a child of the current page that is open/visible. This is mentioned in the Create and Edit Pages documentation.

However you should be able to select the location of a new page when creating it, by pressing the Tree icon and then specifying a new parent page on the Set Page Location pop-up as per the next image:

[Gordon Rutherford]

Thanks Bruno that is useful to know.

While I have you please:  I note (as a new Confluence user) that if you close an unpublished page that you are taken to the top level of your site - not back to the space you were creating the page in.

Is this the default behavior?

Thanks

[Bruno Costa]

@Gordon Rutherford I've just tested with version 6.15 (different instances on different minor versions) and it is true that whenever you close without publishing/updating, Confluence goes to the Recently worked on section and the reason for that is explained by a pop-up message that you get the first time you do this, that says:

We've dropped your draft into Recently worked on. Find, edit, and publish it when you're ready

I am not aware that you can change, or customise, this behaviour. 

Cheers,
Bruno

[Gordon Rutherford]

OK thanks for your reply

Cheers

Gordon

[Thomas Schlegel]

What do you mean exactly by nesting? The parent-child-relation?

If so, I don't think that you can restrict this behaviour, I never heard of anything like this.

[Gordon Rutherford]

Hi The behavior that when a new page is created it is 'nested' under the existing page you are viewing rather than the home page of the space - as shown below - page 2 is 'nested' under page 1 - I would like all pages to simply nest and therefore list under 'Home' - I know you can reorder pages after the fact....

[Thomas Schlegel]

As I said, I don't think that this is possible. And for our environment, I can say that this would lead to a totally unusable bunch of pages. 

Having a hierarchy of pages and top level pages for the different topics makes finding a page much easier. But this may be not the case in your environment.

[Gordon Rutherford]

OK  thanks for your input - yes I can see the value when it is required but in this particular space all pages within are unique.

[Thomas Schlegel]

you're welcome, @Gordon Rutherford 

Maybe another user has another idea for you.