Confluence: Bulk move pages
Asked by Annette Bernardino:

A group setup an automated user for Confluence that creates pages automatically after a specific task. They have, however, set it up to create pages in the wrong space. Is there a way to move pages in bulk instead of one-by-one?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

put all the pages under one parent page and move this parent page to the other space. The child pages will be moved with the parent page.

Best regards

Thomas

comments: author: Production Management
body: I guess he is asking is there a way to move them bulk, but your answer assumes he still needs to move them one by one under one parent page.


author: jchprj
body: Tested. If deleted a parent page, all the child pages will be attached to the parent page of the parent page. Say if A-\>B-\>C, after delete B, it's A-\>C.


author: Christine C
body: Under Space Tools \> Content Tools \> Reorder Pages there's an option to drag pages to their new position. Helpful if you're moving things not too far away from its existing hierarchy and beats having to click on each page individually and move.

comments: author: David Looby
body: This is the way to go.


author: JSzymik
body: This is what I was looking for!


author: Ray Krehn
body: That was easy! Thank you.


author: Edward Yebuah-Okwei
body: Great answer. Thank you


author: Todd
body: Perfect solution (after I had to Google where to find "Space Tools"! :) Thank you!


author: Andre Vergison
body: I moved some ten page, most fine! Then one hundred pages or so, dragging them one by one, and when calling my page tree apparently nothing had changed ... Had to redo the move. :(

I moved another few hundreds pages afterwards, piece meal, all went fine.

Anyone such experience?

(7.4.0)


author: Aromal Chenthamarakshan
body: Not a perfect solution if we have to move hundreds of pages, but still better than nothing. Thank you [@Christine C](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/352632).


author: Heather Cochrane
body: I love drag \& drop but it has its limits. As some others have mentioned, I have too many to make this workable for a particular situation. It's taking me forever to move these files where they need to go. A bulk move option would be MUCH better. If I could CTRL+Click, then drag \& drop the group of selected items, that would be more helpful.


author: Johannes Schneider
body: So still no way to select multiple pages within a tree to move them to another tree?

comments: author: Santosh Kumar Devata
body: Yes, I'm also in the queue waiting for this.


author: Adam Myatt
body: There's not any way in the Confluence Admin panel that I have seen, but you may consider altering the CONTENT.SPACEID field in the database for each affected record. There may be other fields to alter, but that's technically how you can move content between spaces quickly.

Also note, that content in 1 space may have different permissions than content in another, so if you mess with the database to switch content betwene spaces you may unintened side affects unless you also review the content permissions in CONTENT_PERM table.


author: Ray Krehn
body: As of a recent release, you can drag-and-drop directly on the menu itself on the left. You no longer need to go into Space Tools \> Content Tools \> Reorder Pages.

comments: author: Andre Vergison
body: In 7.4.0 you can drag and drop, but I see no effect. The target is not highlighted/selected.