Confluence allows you to present your pages in any order (sequence) you choose. The position of a page is reflected in the following places:
- The Tree tab on the space's 'Pages' view
- Exporting pages to PDF, HTML and XML
- The Pagetree macro
- The Children macro
Alphabetical versus Manual Order
By default, Confluence will present your pages in alphabetical order. When you move a page to a different position, the order becomes manual for the affected page family.
When ordering pages alphabetically, Confluence actually applies a more sophisticated 'natural' order rather than a straight alphabetical order. The natural order handles numeric values correctly when doing string comparisons.
Now let's consider what happens when you add a page to a page family, by creating a new page or by moving or copying a page into the family:
- If the page family's order is alphabetical, the new page will appear in alphabetical order too.
- If the page family's order is manual, the new page will appear at the bottom of the list of pages in the family.
Changing the Page Order
You can change the order of the pages by moving pages within the page tree — see Moving a Page.
You can also change the order of a page-family from manual to alphabetical (see the 'Setting Page Order to Alphabetical' section on Setting a Page Family to Alphabetical Order).