Published page order
Overview
Published content maintains, where possible, the page hierarchy from the source space.
Published target space pages are ordered in the chronological sequence of the initial publishing actions (if no hierarchy changes have occurred in the source space).
Subsequent publishing of a page (if no hierarchy changes have occurred in the source space), update the target space page content but do not change the content order in the target space.
When publishing, you might need to manually change the order of pages in the target space if a page is published with a change in the source space page order but without a change in the hierarchy.
Initial publishing of content
If the source draft space has a page named Parent with three child pages with an order in the hierarchy of Child One, Child Two, and Child Three.
But the publishing action occurs on a page-by-page basis in the following order
Parent
Child Three
Child One
Child Two
This causes the target space published pages to be in the following order:
The source draft space hierarchy is maintained. However, the child page order under this parent is based on the chronological sequence of the child pages published to the target space. You might need to manually reorder the published pages in the target space.
Changing the order of the pages in the target space (as long as the hierarchy is not changed) does not prevent the publishing of updates to the reordered pages.
Changing the order of previously published draft pages
If you change the order of a child page in the source draft space that has previously been published, subsequent publishing of the page updates the target space page content but does not change the page order in the target space.
For example, if your current source and target spaces have the following pages, page hierarchy, and page order:
Source Space Draft | Target Space Published |
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You then
edit the page Child Two
change Child Two order in the source space hierarchy
re-publish the Child Two page
Source Space Draft - update | Target Space Published - update |
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Re-publishing Child Two does not change the order of this page in the target space.
If you want to maintain the order from the source space, you need to manually reorder the published page in the target space.
Moving a page and changes in the publishing state
When a page that has been published and synced is moved, and there is a change in the hierarchy:
moving the source space changes the publishing state to Out of Sync
moving the target space, the publishing state remains Synced