Hi, I am creating an space on confluence that will act as a internal central repository for product knowledge in the company. The problem I have come across is that I can not create a page with the same name in one space. This is how we want to structure the space: Product 1 * Intro/overview * Pricelist * How to use * License info * Support * Known issues * Document templates Product 2 * Intro/overview * Pricelist * How to use * License info * Support * Known issues * Document templates Product 3 * Intro/overview * Pricelist * How to use * License info * Support * Known issues * Document templates Any ideas on how i can set this up in one space.

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Pages with same name in space

RichardK

Hi,

I am creating an space on confluence that will act as a internal central repository for product knowledge in the company.

The problem I have come across is that I can not create a page with the same name in one space.

This is how we want to structure the space:

Product 1

Intro/overview
Pricelist
How to use
License info
Support
Known issues
Document templates

Product 2

Intro/overview
Pricelist
How to use
License info
Support
Known issues
Document templates

Product 3

Intro/overview
Pricelist
How to use
License info
Support
Known issues
Document templates

Any ideas on how i can set this up in one space.

Accepted answers

Hi Richard,

It seems the directory tree within a space is not being taken into consideration when trying to create pages with the same name within 1 space. I will look if there is an improvement request pending for this, and if there isn't, I will create one.

In order to work around this, I would suggest you keep all information relevant to 1 product on the same page, use anchors on the headers of the sections you previously wanted to put on separate pages, and put an index at the top of the product page to navigate through them. This might even be easier to set up as a template whenever you want to add new products to the space, but I guess that is a matter of opinion

Cheers!

All comments

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You can't. The names of pages within a space must be unique.

If you weren't using OnDemand, I think there's a plugin that can help, although it doesn't quite solve the problem completely. It slips my mind what it is though, sorry.

RichardK

Fantastic. Seems odd that each page has its own unique pageid in the url but it wont allow you to have duplicate names, even though they aren't referenced in the url.

I feel a feature requirement in this.

thanks for the answer, even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear

Thomas Schlegel

Hi Richard,

this is an old requirement. It has been closed forever by Atlassian, look here

Cheers

Thomas

Hi Richard,

Cheers!

Alejandro Conde Carrillo

The Scroll Versions plugin claims to provide this functionality. I haven't tested myself yet.

Tuomas Valtonen

It definitely does it but is very expensive addon if you only use it for that. It creates permalink to solve the problem. Bad thing is that the link name will never change and moving a page to different space, or renaming a page does not affect the link name anymore. That can be very confusing when browsing through links in emails for exmaple

Alexander Baca

Has this been slated for improvement? It still seems to be an issue.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, the requests have been closed as "won't fix" in Atlassian's tracker.

ISRAR AHMED

Will Altassian fix this or the issue will be an integral part of Confluence?

David Skreiner2

Just prefix every line with the name of the product?

OMO

OMO Intro/overview
OMO Pricelist
OMO How to use
OMO License info
...

ATA

ATA Intro/overview
ATA Pricelist
ATA How to use
...

CIF

CIF Intro/overview
CIF Pricelist
CiF How to use
...

Cagdas

@Nic Brough - Dont try to justify a technical concept by neglecting the user behvaiour for structuring content. It was possible pre 2013 as I remember correctly (the last time Ive used confluence). Now, in 2017 , Im using confluence again for another company and Im observing this exact same problem. Which is definetly, also by reconsidering the amount of users having the same issue with this, an UX/Usability problem and not just justifiable with unique identifiers and search result opportunities. It is just annoying!

p.s. : everyone can have his opinion on a product/feature ! And the prefix solution is not very nice.

Michael Mamone

I'm OK with having unique name for the url - i just want the title to be the same as another page in the space (which yes, is in a different part of the hierarchy).

Ash Chapman

My suggestion would be to allow duplicate pages and to tweak the way search returns results.

Now it's easy for me to throw out a recommendation there... I didn't engineer the product. If there's a deeper philosophy that would help us uninitiated understand the way it is the way it is, point us to it! I wanna read the Atlassian manifesto.

While I'm at it - I'd love to see some really nice examples of a super well manicured Confluence pages. Maybe even industry specific ideas... think SquareSpace for Confluence.

Below is my potentially Atlassian philosophy busting search idea that would allow for duplicate pages.

Confluence search tweak.png

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