The parent page destination field not populating properly on Copy Page Tree page

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Praveena Manohar
Last updated: Apr 12, 2024 by
Praveena Manohar
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Problem

The parent page destination field is not populating correctly on the Copy Page Tree page

Cause

We have determined that the Atlassian API our app uses for relatively large spaces does not return results but rather times out. In other words, our app asks Confluence for a list of pages in the space, but Confluence does not respond with an answer. Thus, we've determined it is a bug in the Atlassian Confluence API. However, Atlassian has now deprecated that API and offered a newer REST API, so we have to rewrite large parts of the app. And Atlassian no longer supports the API we are using. When creating the app, we used that API because it was the only one available. We have identified that Confluence sometimes times out on the destination drop-down. This seems to be a proxy issue or bug with the JSON-RPC API, which is not paginated.

Workaround

  1. Copy the page tree to a "temp space" or under a hundred pages so the "parent destination field" populates.

  2. After the copy, you can navigate to the top of the new page tree and use the Confluence "Move" page feature to move the new page tree to its ultimate destination.  Â