All pages disappear when I change the home page for the space

[Scott Beeson]

I have a new space that currently has 3 pages

• Welcome
• Tools
• Projects

My initial goal was to be able to see the "Home page" in the menu because I was afraid users wouldn't intuitively know to click on the space name at the top to get back to the home page. So that's why I created the "Welcome" page. 

Now the problem is, when I go to change the home page to "Welcome", all the other pages disappear!  Why is this and how can I fix it?

[Scott Beeson · Accepted solution]

The solution was to use the "Include Page" macro.

Scenario

I wanted the home page to be in the main navigation. This is impossible due to the weird way Confluence links the navigation relatively to the Home Page.

Solution

Leave your home page as the default (or set it back to <space name> home page). Create your new "Home" page (I called it Welcome). Design it however you want. Go to the actual home page by clicking on the space name.  Clear all the content and then insert the "Include Page" macro. Point it to the newly created Home/Welcome page.

[Scott Beeson]

Changing the home page should not modify the menu at all.

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Reorder your pages under the Space Settings.

Move the other pages below the Welcome page and they will "reappear"

[Scott Beeson]

But I assume I will no longer see the Welcome page? Which means I'm back exactly where I started.  Not to mention I don't want all my pages as children of the Welcome page.

[Stephanie King]

@Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM This happened to me as well. At first I couldn't set the page I wanted to as the home page — then finally once I was able to do so, the rest of the content in the space disappeared. Now I can see it in the content manager, and it appears when I search for it, but it no longer appears in the left nav.

I need to restore the structure that was previously here, and simply use this one single page as the home page — how can I do this?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Under the space settings, you can re-order your pages.  Move all pages below the current homepage and they will re-appear on the left nav.