Nice URLs only on some Confluence OnDemand pages

[Hans Berg]

I've created Confluence OnDemand pages which normally can be accessed via URLs that look like this:

https://ourcompanyname.atlassian.net/wiki/display/KEY/page+name

The problem is that several recently created pages don't seem to get those nice URLs anymore...some of them (not all) now have URLs like this:

https://ourcompanyname.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7045154

Why does this happen? How do I change URLs to nice ones, like the first one?

[Bob Swift (personal) · Accepted solution]

Usually that means the title has special characters in it.

[Hans Berg]

Yes, You're right, that it seems to be the common denominator. In this case the page titles contained å,ä or ö.

Thanks!

[Admin Cognotekt]

and it still reacts like this. that sucks so much. I'd rather have pretty much anything else than this pageId crap. (A really straightforward solution would be "something+else" in the URL if the title is "something (else)" - just delete the chars if you can't process them)

confluence is a great product, just sometimes the Atlassian folks seem knuckleheaded beyond anything. They actually implement auto-correct in this entry box so "Atlassian" is always written with a capital "A" (try ), but nice URLs are not in their repertoire.

[Admin Cognotekt]

Oh and your docs are wrong btw.

We have a page with "()" in the title -> pageId. Another page has "*" -> no pageId.