Is it possible to create a new PARENT page? (NOT a child page)

Question

Hi there,

Been trying to accomplish for hours what seems like it would be an extremely intuitive and obvious process of creating a PARENT page.  No matter what I do though, it creates a child page and then gives me the option to create other sub-child pages within that child page which is NOT what I want.  I simply want to be able to create a new parent page, then populate that parent page with the appropriate child pages.  Why is this so difficult? It gives you the option to select which parent page you want it under, but not the option to create an entirely new parent page?

Bill Bailey · Answer

Are you saying that you want to create a new page at the top-level of the space? And you are creating pages now using the "c" keyboard shortcut (or Create button), which creates child pages?

If this is the case, just make sure you are at the top-level page of the space, and then create you page. This action that will create a page at the same level as the other top pages in the space.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can't do this.  Not because the function isn't there, but because it's logically impossible.

You can't have a page that does not have a parent (for the top-level pages, the space is the parent).  A child page can only belong to one parent.  So whenever you are looking at a page, you can't "create a parent" because it already has one.

But, once you understand that structure, you can see that all pages are automatically parents, whatever level they are currently at.  Create your page, and move the children underneath it.

I suspect when you say "create parent page", you mean "create a page at the bottom of the tree, alongside the home page".

To do that, you can

* Click + next to "pages" in the tree on the left
* Create the page anywhere, then go to space settings -> manage pages -> reorder, and drag it into place
* Create the page anywhere, then click "move" and drop it into the top level