Is it possible to 'turn off' nesting of pages in Confluence?
Asked by Gordon Rutherford:

Can the nesting of pages default to the home page of a Space only in Confluence 6.15


Answers:
author: Bruno Costa
body: I'm with [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483) on this one; by default whenever you create a new page, it will be a child of the current page that is open/visible. This is mentioned in the [Create and Edit Pages documentation.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-and-edit-pages-139476.html#CreateandEditPages-Organizeandmove "Create and Edit Pages documentation")  

However you should be able to select the location of a new page when creating it, by pressing the Tree icon and then specifying a new parent page on the Set Page Location pop-up as per the next image:  
![capture-20190612-153541.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57368iF76B70077FEBE85D/image-dimensions/550x392?v=v2 "capture-20190612-153541.png")

comments: author: Gordon Rutherford
body: Thanks Bruno that is useful to know.

While I have you please: I note (as a new Confluence user) that if you close an unpublished page that you are taken to the top level of your site - not back to the space you were creating the page in.

Is this the default behavior?

Thanks


author: Bruno Costa
body: [@Gordon Rutherford](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/62271) I've just tested with version 6.15 (different instances on different minor versions) and it is true that whenever you close without publishing/updating, Confluence goes to the **Recently worked on** section and the reason for that is explained by a pop-up message that you get the first time you do this, that says:
> We've dropped your draft into Recently worked on. Find, edit, and publish it when you're ready

I am not aware that you can change, or customise, this behaviour.   

Cheers,  
Bruno


author: Gordon Rutherford
body: OK thanks for your reply

Cheers

Gordon


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: What do you mean exactly by nesting? The parent-child-relation?

If so, I don't think that you can restrict this behaviour, I never heard of anything like this.

comments: author: Gordon Rutherford
body: Hi The behavior that when a new page is created it is 'nested' under the existing page you are viewing rather than the home page of the space - as shown below - page 2 is 'nested' under page 1 - I would like all pages to simply nest and therefore list under 'Home' - I know you can reorder pages after the fact....

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57360i426FBF5BB9C00F94/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: As I said, I don't think that this is possible. And for our environment, I can say that this would lead to a totally unusable bunch of pages.

Having a hierarchy of pages and top level pages for the different topics makes finding a page much easier. But this may be not the case in your environment.


author: Gordon Rutherford
body: OK thanks for your input - yes I can see the value when it is required but in this particular space all pages within are unique.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: you're welcome, [@Gordon Rutherford](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/62271)

Maybe another user has another idea for you.


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