confluence- create page directly

[corinne goodman]

HI community

Is there a way to create a page directly from another page by entering [[ like we do in sharepoint. it create the page directly and reference the word entered in bracket as a link to this page . 

thanks a lot 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Not quite.  The Sharepoint [[ tends to lead to a lot of half-posted pages that never get built.  

Confluence is a bit better.  If you put [<page name>] or [<space:page name>] on a page, it looks for that page.  If it finds it exists, it links to the page.  If it does not find it, the link goes to "create this page".

[corinne goodman]

thansk Nic for the tip, this is great. I have one more question. the page it creates it's a blank page, can you then change it to another format ? how ?  

thanks 

corinne ( new in confluence)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There are no page formats in Confluence, a page is a page.  There are templates and blueprints which can pre-populate a load of stuff and hence help you write stuff in a standardised format, but they really are templates - there's nothing to stop you removing everything they do once you use one.

This [] link takes you to a an empty page with no template/blueprint because it can't know which one you might want to use.  When it does this to me, and I want to use a template, I tend to just copy the title and then use the drop-down next to create to select the template or blueprint I want, discarding the automatic empty page.