Page Families

Page Families

When you create or edit a page, you have the option of setting its parent page. This allows you to create hierarchies of parent-child relationships between pages. It is a simple but effective way of grouping related pages together, and making navigation of your site simpler by providing links forward and backwards through the page hierarchy.

To create a child page, you can choose the Add Child Page option from the Page Operations menu. Alternatively, you can just type a parent page name into the "Parent Page" field in any page creation or editing form.

When you view a page that has a parent, the "Location" breadcrumbs at the top of the page will list the parent, for ease of navigating back up the page hierarchy. Also, when you view the Page Information for any page, the "Hierarchy" section at the bottom of the information page will show all of the page's ancestors and descendents.

Child pages are listed in the collapsible "children" area at the bottom of the parent page. To insert an automatically generated list of child pages into a parent page, you can edit the page to include the children macro (described in the macros section of the notation guide).

A page can only have one parent. Confluence will only allow you to create page families that are a simple tree: you may not set a page to have a parent that is already one of its own child-pages.