Cannot favourite space home page

[Deleted user]

It doesn't seem to be possible to add the home page of a space to my list of favourite pages. Is this intentional?

[SMS · Accepted solution]

Hi Richard,

I believe you're referring to the Save for Later feature, is that correct?

It is indeed not possible, and I've raised a feature request for it below.

• CONFCLOUD-65560 Ability to save space overview home pages in Save for Later

I discovered a workaround that will help you. 

So, I noticed that if I switch the home page of a space from overview to something else, the overview page disappears in the Page Tree. Because of this, I think that the overview page might be a parent of all the other pages in the space, so this could be why it doesn't show up in the Page Tree when you remove it from the home page setting.

Instead, I did this:

• I went to the overview page, hovered over the “edit” button, which, at the bottom of my browser, told me the page ID. I made a note of this number, and built a URL that should take me directly to the overview page. For example: https://INSTANCE.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPACEKEY/pages/PAGE_ID_NUMBER/PAGE+TITLE
• Don't enter that URL yet, because it'll just redirect you to the overview page. Instead, go to your Space Settings, and change the home page to something else. This is temporary.
• Now, you can navigate to the URL above, save the page for later, and then go back into Space Settings and set it back to the overview page.

This isn't a very good workaround if you're not a Space Admin, so if so, the only other option would be to favorite the space via the Space Directory.

I encourage you to vote on the request above, and watch it in order to be updated of any changes.

Regards,

Shannon

[Deleted user]

That's right - it is the "Save for later" feature - although I've always known it as "starring a page", or "adding a page to my favourites".

Thanks for creating the ticket - I have indeed voted for it, and watched it.

I actually found a very dirty workaround: when you click the star to save a page, the browser makes a PUT request to a URL like:

https://INSTANCE.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/experimental/relation/user/current/favourite/toContent/XXXXXXX

where XXXXXXX seems to be a unique numerical ID for the page.

Usually a page's URL is something like:

https://INSTANCE.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPACE/pages/XXXXXXX/PAGENAME

which shows the numerical ID for the page, but for a home page, it's typically something like:

https://INSTANCE.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPACE/overview

i.e. no numerical ID in the URL. Nevertheless, the home page's real (numerical) ID is sometimes visible if you observe the requests being made by the browser.

If you use e.g. "Edit and Resend" in Firefox Developer Tools, it's possible to make a PUT request to the /rest URL that adds a home page (using its numerical ID) to your favourites.

Similarly, making a DELETE request to the /rest URL to remove it from your favourites.

[SMS]

Thank you for sharing your workaround as well! I suspected something similar but didn't dive too deep into that.

Feel free to share your workaround on the ticket I created as well!

Take care,

Shannon

[Deleted user]

Have done :)