How to create link to non-existing page under parent page?

[Henrik Widell]

Say I have a space with a top level page, "Home".

I am on a sub-page, "A" under "Home" and wish to create a link to a non-existing page "B". I can do this using the normal insert link function, under "Advanced" etc., but the link then points to "B" as a sub-page of "A". What I want to do is for the link to point to "B" as a sub-page of "Home", i.e. on the same hierarchy level as "A".

Any ideas how to do this?

I have tried specifying the link as Home/B or ../B, but that still ends up with the link pointing to a sub-page under "A" - just with the title "Home/B" or "../B" instead...

/Henrik

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Henrik Widell,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Follow these steps to create an undefined placeholder page link:

1. Type [Placeholder Page Name](). 
   This follows the syntax as the keyboard shortcut for adding defined links [Link] (http://a.com).
2. Press Enter or Return to create the placeholder.
3. Select Close to keep the page as a DRAFT or select Publish. 

[Henrik Widell]

Hi Mikael,

Thanks for the suggestion.

However, what you describe above creates a link, but does not do, what I asked about - the link created still points to a (non-exisiting) subpage of page "A", i.e. one level lower in the overall hierarchy than I want it to.

What I want to do is to ensure the non-extisting page (when created) also ends up in the correct place in the space page hierarchy. With the above method I end up where I was - the new page is created as a subpage of the one containing the link.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Unfortunately you cannot define where the destination will be for the placeholder, it is using the sam behavior as when you create a new page, it will end up as a child of the page that are one when you click create.

[Henrik Widell]

So that means, when someone creates the page, it will have to be manually relocated.

Workable, but far from ideal. Takes away some of the usefulness of creating links to non-existing pages.

[Allan Maxwell]

You used to be able to type "[New sub page]" and a new page with the "New sub page" as the title would be created and your original text replaced with hyperlink text.  Now, I guess you have to add the "()" and then click on the link to create the page.

[Benia Zouras]

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