Hide child pages in tree without creating orphans?

[Scott Beeson]

I have a page called Policies that will have dozens of pages underneath it.  I would like to retain their hierarchy but not show them under "Policies" on the navigation tree.  Is it possible to do this without css or javascript?

[James Dellow]

Milo's suggestion will work to an extent, but as soon as you open one of those policy pages the sidebar will display the page hierarchy.

However, you can disable the display of either page tree or child pages navigation (via "Configure Side" in the bottom-left of the screen). You may then either need to manually create your navigation structure or use wiki markup via a custom sidebar element (via Space Tools > Look and Feel > Sidebar, header and footer) to recreate it in some way.

BTW it would help to understand the outcome you are trying to achieve by hiding those child pages in the sidebar navigation - we might be able to suggest an alternative approach 

[Deleted user]

Heyho, just read your recommendation :) 

I am actually also looking for a way to hide children pages in the tree without creating orphan pages. My aim is to create a company wiki within confluence so the section "Glossary" will have a lot of different sub-pages which I wouldnt like to display in the left tree-view to reduce complexity.

Any thoughts?

[James Dellow]

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this now - the method I describe above is no longer available in Confluence Cloud.

However, utilising the fact that the sidebar pages list reflects the structure of the page under the space's homepage you could make the homepage a single page (no children) and have the other pages under another root page (the root and homepage don't need to be the same). However, you would need to manually create a list of all your primary pages as space shortcuts.

[Deleted user]

First of all, thank you for your thorough answer. I really do appreciate any help with confluence since I just started using it. 

Based on your experience, do you have any recommendations or best practices to set up a glossary? (without adding any additional macros) My attempt would be to set it up like in the picture below. However, as I already mentioned, the list at the sidebar below "Glossary" would get ridiculously long. 

I tried to hide that by adding an additional subpage between all glossary entries and the parent page (Glossary > Entries > Entry 1, Entry 2, ...). However, if I do so, entries created by the macro "create from template" (here "+ Add term) will be automatically created at the same layer as entries. 

[daniel]

This is why I want to turn off the childview tree — no reverse sort! The following issue has only been around for 10 years!!!

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-31358

[Milo Test]

Not sure how you aim to link to those pages, but you can hide the pages by putting them under a different parent and moving that parent above the space's home page.