New! Keep your spaces tidy by deleting content in bulk

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Hi Atlassian Community,

I’m John, a Product Manager focused on improving the experience of admins within Confluence Cloud. I’m excited to share that you can now delete your content items in bulk!

We're striving to enable efficient content management in Confluence Cloud, and we believe that the capability to bulk delete content items is a foundational content curation tool that, frankly, we've been overdue to add to Confluence's toolkit.

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How to delete content in bulk from your page tree

First, click on the three dot menu of the parent content item that you'd like to delete the branch of:

Next, after clicking the Delete option, make sure that the box next to the Include nested pages option is checked:

Finally, click the delete button and voilà! Your parent content item and the items nested beneath it will have been deleted!

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How to delete content in bulk from the Manage Page Tree feature

- note: the Manage Page Tree feature is only available to space admins on our Premium or Enterprise editions

First, navigate to your Space Settings from the left nav:

Then, within the Manage Content within Site Settings, click to enter the Manage Page Tree feature:

Once within the Manage Page Tree feature, check the boxes for the branches of your page tree that you'd like to delete, and then click the delete button towards the top of the page:

Then, click the delete button and all of the selected content will have been deleted:

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FAQs

Which editions of Confluence Cloud is this available to?

- From the content tree: Customers on our Standard, Premium, and Enterprise editions

- From the Manage Page Tree feature: Customers on our Premium and Enterprise editions

Can all users delete content in bulk?

- From the content tree: End users will be able to bulk delete content items that they've been granted delete permissions for

- From the Manage Page Tree feature: Only admins will be able to access the feature

Are there limits to the number of items I can delete at a time?

- Yes. Bulk delete jobs are currently limited to a maximum of 100 content items per job

When can I start deleting my content in bulk?

- Now! Bulk delete capabilities have been fully rolled out to our customers

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Indeed, it was about time for this to be rolled out. Loving the option to delete pages from Manage Page Tree under space settings! 🚮

[Rodrigo]

Sweet! Great feature to have and clean those note-pages! Thank yoouu team 🙌

[Andy Gladstone]

I wish I could say I am looking forward to testing this feature out, but that would be self-incriminating. Instead I’ll say that I am looking forward to creating an environment to test this in. 

[Summer.Hogan]

This is very helpful! Thanks @John Hooper 

[Jonathan Smith]

@John Hooper  Has this been rolled out to all customers? I am viewing my sandbox and PROD environment, but I do not see these features. 

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

Related here, that you can automatically bulk-delete pages with the Better Content Archiving app!

You can enter a CQL and a CRON expression, the Execute Automations job  will wake up and delete (trash) all matching content:

You can set it up once and forget it. You can combine multiple automation to an automation scheme and apply the whole scheme to each space where you want this mechanism.

[John Hooper]

@Jonathan Smith - yes, this has been rolled out to all customers on our Standard, Premium, + Enterprise plans.

Please send in a ticket with our support team if you're not finding it to be active for you, and we'll make sure that it is!