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One frequent complaint heard from confluence users is that information is in confluence can be hard to find. This often happens because while confluence spaces often start out well organized over time as pages are added in a haphazard way the space becomes disorganized, and it is hard to distinguish up-to-date content from obsolete information.

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From within any confluence space you can see the complete page tree by selecting Browse, Pages from the menu at the top of the page, the then select View: Tree.

Within the tree it is now possible to simply drag pages from one location to another. You can drag individual pages, or a whole sub-tree of pages in one operation. Each node within the tree can be configured to sort its child pages alphabetically or in a user defined order, for example in By default each page sorts its children alphabetically, but you can set an explicit page order by dragging and dropping pages. In the image above the Confluence folder has been configured to !not! sort its pages alphabetically.

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titleBe Careful

, clicking on the A icon beside the page will resort its children alphabetically.

(warning) It is perhaps advisable to try this on your personal confluence space first, before tackling a larger space. It is easy to accidentally drop a whole set of pages in some obscure location but once you get used to it moving pages becomes fast and easy.

Inserting a page tree in your own pages

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