How do I set Site Homepage to a space without the ?mode=global at the end of the URL?

[Terry Stille]

i.e. I want the site homepage to be:

https://connexusenergy.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BATEAM/overview

instead of:

https://connexusenergy.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BATEAM/overview?mode=global

so that the space shortcuts will display on the left.

[Marco Jantke]

This is a horrible thing! Why would you leave the people going straight to your frontpage without a navigation bar? I totally agree that this should be at least configurable.

[Sebastian Mendel]

Oh, i thought this was some kind of new feature. Now i notice this was already reported back in 2017. :-( 

And no one knows why this happens, or if it affects only me or all users, or how to disable this?

found this:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Start-page-mode-global/qaq-p/975238

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59247

[Rene Schade]

I guess a simple fix for this, would create a plugin/app/macro - a javascript snippet that removes this mode=global

I have no experience in creating this kind of plugin/app/macro but I'll look into it and get back.

If any experts has comments to this solution, please let me know.

[Joe Bloggs]

Hi, any thoughts on this - it really makes it much harder to work. 

[Joe Bloggs]

Commment/upvote here https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59247 

[Terry Stille]

If you "Star" the spaces, they will show up on the homepage under "Starred Spaces",  which is just as good as the "Space Shortcuts" that was previously the default.

[Chuck Y]

No it is NOT as good.  

All new users end up with issue that must require manual hack  workaround

So, no.  Not acceptable!

[Christopher Yarp]

Did you ever get a suggestion for this issue?  I have the same problem with a hosted Confluence site.  In our case, we want the page tree to automatically appear for our users.

[Perry Tew]

Here we are in 2020 and no traction on this.  My problem is that it never used to be like this.  I edited our overview page and now *BAM*!  that mode=global is showing up.  I have ZERO clue why it's suddenly doing this, and I very badly want it gone.   That left hand tree is critical navigation.

I would love for a confluence admin to weigh in and inform me what triggered this query parameter to start showing and how I can remove it.

If this is a permanent thing, I'm going to shop alternatives to Confluence.