How to create a child page in the top of other older child pages?

[Tomasz Rojek]

There is a parent page that has tens of child pages. Whenever you create a new child page it will always land in the bottom of the list.

Each time you want to find the latest one you have to scroll down to the bottom...

You can reorder the newest child page back to the top, but you NEED to remember this EACH and EVERY time you create new child page. If you have many users creating child pages this will NEVER work.

Questions:

1. Is there a global or space related setting that would change the default sorting order for new pages?

2. Could it be a setting that you can choose when creating a child page?

3. Could it be a setting for the parent page??

Cheers

[Robert Reiner _smartics_]

I don't know if there is a special configuration option for the default order of child pages ( I assume there is none).

But if your use case allows to present the list of children on a separate page (not in the navigation menu), you may use the Children  Display Macro, which allows to reverse the sort order.

The native sort order would still be 'false', but you would provide an additional view on your documentation.

[Tomasz Rojek]

That is indeed some kind of workaround for my situation, but still displaying the page tree with child pages in correct sorting order is waaay faster than loading a page that includes macro that renders correct sorting for the child pages.

I believe that such sorting option for child and/or parent page would be useful and would allow user to control the page tree layout (by created, title, changed, etc.) without much hassle.

[Kristian Klima]

Hello @Tomasz Rojek and welcome to the community.

Not sure you can simply drag and drop pages in the tree as you can in Cloud...

But I'm sure in Data Center there's a section in Space settings called Reorder Pages or Change Hierarchy (there was on Server). 

There, you can drag and drop pages in a similar way you can in the little video.

(this works on Cloud, too)

[Tomasz Rojek]

I know that Krisatian, I wrote it above :)

I am looking for a magical switch that would allow to avoid manual reordering of child pages.