Confluence Folders Direct Link

[Mircea Marin]

I wanted to ask if anyone knows of an option to "redirect" from the link of a Folder in Confluence not to the page that is at the top of the folder (current behaviour) but to the page that is the newest (latest creation date).

Our use-case is for a folder where we have Agendas / Meeting Minutes. Currently, we manually put new pages at the top so that the link always opens the newest one but sometimes we forget. It's a small QoL improvement but would be nice to know if it's possible to change where the default link redirects to.

Thanks!

[jackgray72]

I wanted to ask if anyone knows of an option to "redirect" from the link of a Folder in Confluence not to the page that is at the top of the folder (current behaviour) but to the page that is the newest (latest creation date) .

Our use-case is for a folder where we have Agendas / Meeting Minutes. Currently, we manually put new pages at the top so that the link always opens the newest one but sometimes we forget. It's a small QoL improvement but would be nice to know if it's possible to change where the default link redirects to.

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[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Mircea Marin and welcome to the Community.

If you use a standard parent page - which is just a page with pages slotted under it in the tree - instead of a folder, you will be able to use the Child pages macro and organize the display of the sad child pages by Newest to Oldest.

[Mircea Marin]

Thanks for the reply. My use case was actually to have one link, which when clicked would always open the latest page in the folder. If I use a parent page instead of a folder then yes, I can order the child pages but I still don't have one single link that always takes me to the newest page, correct?

[Kristian Klima]

No, it wouldn't I'm afraid. 

But I don't think it's possible unless you do one extra step.

1. You create a page that you want to link to - let's call it LINK PAGE.
2. On that LINK PAGE, you would use an Page include macro.
3. Ever time, after you create the latest meeting minutes page, you would update the link on the LINK PAGE.

(you can achieve the same effect with a Excerpt (minute page) Excerpt include (LINK PAGE) macros)

[Mircea Marin]

Ok, thanks. Than I will stick to Folders for now as the "work" needed is just to drag the new page at the top of the folder and then the link to the folder will open that page.