Page ordering number scheme

Question

Hello

My business users LOVE to prefix the pages with a number so

1. INITIATIVE SUMMARY (xxx)
2. SCOPE (xxx)
3. PEOPLE (xxx)
4. PLANNING (xxx)
5. REQUIREMENTS (xxx)

in a similar fashion go crazy with the child pages

1. INITIATIVE SUMMARY (xxx)
2. SCOPE (xxx)
|__2.4 Value Chains & Business Processes (xxx)
    2.2 Business Objectives (xxx)
    2.3 Scope (xxx)
    2.1 Problem Statement (xxx)

3. PEOPLE (xxx)

Then come back on me to suggesting Confluence should do better with keeping the order.
They other commentary is that some of the child pages will have duplicate names based on the Parent page, ie Planning may also have a child page called "Scope" so they are suggesting this is the only way they have found so that they dont get conflicts in Page Titles

Has anyone else come across this pattern where their users craft these page structure "templates", is there are better way they can keep some structure

Tomislav Tobijas · Answer

Yeah, the challenge with page/content naming is that content titles within the same space need to be unique. Adding these prefixes (or suffixes) has been requested among our clients as well, but it is not a big priority.

Here's the feature request which covers this part, although it's relying on using space or global templates: CONFCLOUD-22704: Automatic page title formatting from page template (this is for cloud, but I believe the same thing applies to DC/on-prem)
Not sure if you could build some script so it's done automatically (haven't worked that much with on-prem Confluence to be able to say that 🤔)

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@shane-nz for things that are repeatable and done over and over again we will create what we call binders.  The are a set of pages that we hide from many of the users but allow certain users to copy.  We have maintain and update them to be in line with our processes and procedures so that their is consistency.  The users can then just copy it, change the XXXXX | XXXX information in each page at copy to match their needs and then they don't duplicate or run into issues with orders.  This has worked well for us.