Use the Children Display macro to display the child pages of a page and the descendents (childrens' children). Links to the children are displayed as in the screenshot below:

Screenshot: The Children Display Macro in Confluence

(info) Note that only pages for which you have 'View' permission will be displayed.

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Using the Children Display Macro

To add the Children Display macro to a page:

  1. In the Confluence editor, choose Insert > Other Macros.
  2. Find and select the required macro.

Speeding up macro entry with autocomplete:

Type { and the beginning of the macro name, to see a list of suggested macros. Details are in Using Autocomplete.

To edit an existing macro: Click the macro placeholder and choose Edit. This will display the parameters of the macro in the Macro Browser.

Parameters

Parameters are options that you can set to control the content or format of the macro output.

Parameter

Default

Description

Show Descendants

false

Choose whether to display descendent pages of the child pages.

Parent Page

current

Specify the page to display children for, from either the current space or a different space. Enter:

  • '/' — to list the top-level pages of the current space, i.e. those without parents.
  • 'pagename' — to list the children of the specified page.
  • 'spacekey:' — to list the top-level pages of the specified space.
  • 'spacekey:pagename' — to list the children of the specified page in the specified space.

Number of Children

none

Restrict the number of child pages that are displayed at the top level.

Depth of Descendants

none

Enter a number to specify the depth of descendents to display.

Heading Style

none

Choose the style used to display descendents.

Include Excerpts

false

Display excerpts for the child pages, if they exist.

Sort Children By

Manual if manually ordered, otherwise alphabetical

Optional. Choose:

  • creation — to sort by content creation date
  • title — to sort alphabetically on title
  • modified — to sort of last modification date.

Reverse Sort

false

Use with the Sort Children By parameter. When set, the sort order changes from ascending to descending.

Related Topics

Working with Page Families
Working with Macros

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