Is it a best practice to use more than one home page in a space?

Question

In many spaces, I've found it somewhat useful to have two pagetrees in a space, with two or three "home pages". However, I haven't found any documentation on the downsides to this, and I did notice an Atlassian rep saying there is only "one home page per space".  Will this cause a problem?

Chris Ridgeway · Answer

Well, at issue is to create multiple spaces, or several trees under the same space.

For instance, our non-profit has a Communications Operations space.

I have top-level page called Language & Style Manual.  It has about 10 pages underneath with details for others across the agency to read when writing memos, for example.  Then I have a second top level page called "Operations" which has sub-pages that include "Donor Communications "Public Relations" etc.  These are somewhat clearly different topics though related.  I could break these out into multiple spaces but it seems a little silly to have a space for 10-15 pages only.

In any case, it seems you're saying it's technically fine, but only one page is truely designated home. I hadn't noticed that: possibly since we're using Refined Wiki custom theme, which may partly obscure that.

Anyway, thanks.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Using different page trees will work, but your users may find it a little confusing.  You can only have one home space though, there's no logical way to have more than one.

HosseinA · Answer

That should not be an issue. You can have pages in the same level of space tree (not child ages of other pages or underneath).