📁 Save Time and Establish a Better New Order with Confluence Folders

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In many of my previous articles, I’ve tried to show ways you can structure your content in a way that makes sense, is more efficient or just simplified. Like in this article, where I talk about structuring the perfect page tree.

However, a big part of structuring spaces and pages is being clear about the purpose of this page. But you know what? Sometimes, we make pages so we can host pages underneath. Like this example:

To avoid having a weird blank page that is only created to host child pages, I render the page tree as the page's content. Of course, I can add some information and make it beautiful, but why waste time and effort when my goal was REALLY to have this only as a parent page?

That’s why I am beyond satisfied to finally have the most anticipated feature of Confluence: Folders.

Confluence Folders is the absolute game changer for anyone passionate about neatly ordering and crafting their internal content.

• Folders make it easier to group related pages, allowing teams to find content quickly.

       

• You can use folders to separate content by status (e.g., drafts, in review, published) and improve your content lifecycle management.

• Folders can be used to create structured onboarding guides, grouping documentation, training materials, and checklists in one place.

And more and more.

No need for ‘only supposed to be a parent’ pages or time invested in making a content-rich home page for the sake of grouping a category.

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If you haven’t tried it out yet - you must!

Also, you may see this lovely banner showing you how to quickly convert the parent page into a folder without losing content because it’s safely archived.

Learn more about the Folders feature here.

Enjoy making your Space shine brighter 💙

[Ron]

It seems you can't link to a folder.

Also, I would expect the behavior of a Confluence folder to be much like a folder in the Windows Explorer where you see the tree structure on the left hand side and the contents of a selected folder on the right hand side. Confluence folders don't seem to have this functionality.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Great article @Teodora V _Fun Inc_ ! We're also starting to switch from parent pages to folders (in some cases/spaces).

@Ron - you can actually create a link to a folder but whoever opens that, the system will automatically redirect them to the first page or other content inside the folder.

I also agree that having the ability to 'open a folder' and see all contents on the right side might be a good feature.

[Bryan Severson]

Are there any reports or macros coming for folders? Oddly the Child pages macro will include folders as if they are pages, but you can't specify them as a "Parent page" in the Basic properties of the macro. 

Child pages report shows the folders as pages:

However those pages aren't found in the Parent Page search and pasting the URL for the folder just triggers a text search.

(Yes, I did scroll down all the way. ;)

[Dave Liao]

@Teodora V _Fun Inc_ 

🗂️ So glad Confluence (Cloud) Folders are a thing now.

You just reminded me to tell my users about them... 🥲

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

@Bryan Severson They were in Beta until recently, so I expect more features for Folders. I hope they will expand to include better navigation.

@Dave Liao ahh the best part, making people use them. Good luck 😁

[Andy Gladstone]

@Teodora V _Fun Inc_ I can't believe that I am NOT using folders YET. But thanks for this publish, it's the push I needed to get my admin cap on, enable them and start some autumnal cleaning in our spaces!

[Andy Gladstone]

@Teodora V _Fun Inc_ since I read this article I have been on folder front, battling bad page sprawl and organizing spaces like never before! Thanks again for this article!

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

I am thrilled to hear it @Andy Gladstone 💙

You are always welcome!