Moving Confluence Pages

MCG_70eld7

Our confluence space has gotten a little unwieldly and could use some organization. If I move a page to simply be a sub item or start renaming pages, will that break all of my links? 

 

Before anyone starts suggesting adding new components, I'm not able to modify our instance, so please don't suggest adding anything.   

Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @MCG and welcome to the Community.

It depends  

OK, seriously now. Normally, they should not break but I don't know how you create your links and if you're using any anchors, links to sub-headings, etc...

Select a couple of pages that are cross-linked, try to move them around and see what happens. This way, you'll identify the patterns of how your links are created and, if that's the case, what you need to do before you embark on refactoring your space.

 

We're linking a lot in our documentation (yes, it's Confluence content used in Scroll Viewport site) and we're moving our content a LOT. Broken links happen once in a blue moon.

Here's our best practices.

• On parent pages, use Child pages macro.
• We always create INLINE links the way I show in the Gif
  1. Command-K (on a Mac)
  2. start typing the name of the page
  3. select the page
  4. insure it's Inline link
  5. 
• This ensures the linked text is identical to the page title
• And that insures that if you change the page title, the linked text will change too.
• We always introduce links with... For more information/for details, see Linked Page Title.