I use various software to write documentation. Some software allows me to specify different versions of a page title for use in different contexts. For example, for use in a table of contents (TOC) pane; in Confluence terms, the page tree.
Can I do this in Confluence?
Here's an example of why I want to do this. Suppose I have a parent page with multiple child pages. The parent page title is "Information security rules". A child page title is "Information security rules that are centrally managed". I would like that child page to appear in the page tree with a shorter title: "Centrally managed", or something like that.
That is, instead of:
- Information security rules
- Information security rules for everyone
- Information security rules that are centrally managed
I want:
- Information security rules
- For everyone
- Centrally managed
(I can probably find better examples, if pushed. This is from something I'm working on now. The qualifiers "For everyone" and "Centrally managed" are "work-in-progress placeholders", subject to change.)
TOC panes are often narrow. And some software, including Confluence, truncates long titles in TOC panes rather than wrapping them. TOC panes inherently provide a "hierarchy of context" for page titles: if a TOC node has the title "Information security rules", then its child nodes don't need to repeat that context.
You might ask:
- Why don't you just use that shorter version as the page title?
- If you're concerned about truncation in the page tree, but you want to keep the complete term "information security rules" in the title, why not (as you have already done in the shorter version) move the qualifier "centrally managed" to the start of the page title: "Centrally managed information security rules"?
Fair questions.
For now, though, I'm more interested in an answer to whether I can specify in Confluence a version of a page title that is only used for the page tree (well, okay: preferably, also the breadcrumb trail); and if so, how?
