How can we have 2 pages with the same name but different parents?

Question

Hello,

I am trying to migrate from "local folders" to Jira and Confluence, maintaining the same structure of the information in order to make things easier for my colleagues. Nevertheless,  for that I need to reproduce the same structure of files under different fathers, and Confluence doesn't allow me to do that.

I would like to have something such as:

Customer1:  Requirements - Development - Final

Customer2:  Requirements - Development - Final

...

But Confluence doesn't allow me to craate 2 pages with the same name.

What do you propose me to do?

Thank you

Jonathan Smith · Answer

@Miriam Martinez

If creating spaces for each project is out of the question, your only other easy option is to put the customer name in front of each page title.

I can feel all the frowns across the community...

Box company Requirements --- Box company Development --- Box company Final

Software company Requirements --- Software company Development --- Software company Final

Suren Raj · Answer

Hi Miriam.

The "solution" is to create individual spaces for the customers. This allows you to name the pages identically. This does work well for large projects, where using two different spaces improves navigation in general.

We found another user who claims to use a dirty way to have a page with the same name on a space. You may refer to the following URL and go to the last comment:

* https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Handling-duplicate-page-names/qaq-p/374995

Hope it helps. Let us know if you have further question.

Cheers
Suren Raj