Copy a page, do not include child pages, how are relative links handled?

[Diane Metzger]

I have a user that is copying a page and does not select to include the child pages.  The user expects the relative links to still work to the old pages.  I am thinking the relative links will no longer work but I cannot find any documentation on how this should work.  Does anyone know or have a reference to documentation on how this should work?  

[AnnWorley]

Hi Diane,

The user should be correct: Links

Confluence automatically updates links when you rename or move a page to another space. 

Please test the behavior on your instance and if the links break, let me know the version of Confluence. I tested on Confluence version 6.8 and the relative link still went to the old child page.

Cheers,

Ann

[Diane Metzger]

We think this might be the issue

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-35137

[AnnWorley]

Interesting, thanks for the update. Modifying location of a page may break links to pages in the content  was reported for Confluence 5.5.3 and there hasn't been a support case linked to it since 2014. I misunderstood your use case as being broken links to child pages on a third page when the parent was copied and the children were not. I just tested the bug you linked and it is still present in Confluence 6.8.0. I copied a page (without copying child pages) that had a relative link to it's own child and that link broke in the copied page. The link was present, but when clicked, opened a new page with the same name as the child page. The expected behavior is the link should still lead to the same page it leads to in the page before it is copied.

Since you are experiencing a bug it would be great if you could comment or vote on it to let the developers know that customers are still running into this issue.

I added Confluence 6.8.0 to the affected versions to let them know it is not fixed in that version.