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Page Order Keeper for Confluence: sort child pages A–Z

Page Order Keeper sorts the direct child pages of a parent by title and shows you the result first. It runs on Atlassian and sends nothing outside it.

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Free for up to 10 users; see Marketplace for tiers. Runs entirely on Atlassian. For Confluence Cloud.

Sort a parent page once

  1. Open Page Order Keeper from the apps menu in Confluence.
  2. Paste the address or the numeric ID of the parent page. Tick Z–A instead of A–Z for the reverse.
  3. Press Preview. The table shows each child page, its position now and after sorting, with an arrow where the position changes. The table shows the first 100 rows.
  4. Press Sort now. The app moves only the pages that need to move, then reads the order back from Confluence. It then tells you whether Confluence shows the expected order.
  5. To undo, press Restore the previous order. It undoes your last manual sort. The saved order is kept for 90 days.

How titles are ordered

Numbers sort in natural order, so Page 2 comes before Page 10. Full-width letters and digits count as half-width. Hiragana and katakana count as the same. Kanji are not sorted by reading. They come after kana in JIS character-table order.

Keep this page sorted

Open the parent in Page Order Keeper and press Keep this page sorted. This saves a rule for that parent. The rule uses the permissions of the person who turned it on. The list on the same screen shows each parent you can view, its order, its last run, and when it was set. The person who set a rule, and people who can edit the parent, see who that was.

That person, or anyone who can edit the parent page, can turn it off with Stop keeping it sorted. You can keep up to 25 parents sorted on a site and 5 per person. To change the order of a kept parent, or to restore an earlier order, turn keep-sorted off first.

Limits

  • Direct children only.
  • Parents with more than 500 children are refused.
  • A parent that contains folders or other items that are not pages can be previewed but not sorted, kept sorted or restored.
  • If you cannot edit the pages involved, Confluence refuses the move and the app shows it.

Licensing and price

Previews and turning keep-sorted off are free. Sorting, restoring and turning keep-sorted on need an active license. Free for up to 10 users; see Marketplace for tiers.

Data and privacy

The app stores the following in Forge storage on your site. For each kept parent it stores a rule: the parent page ID and title, the account ID of the person who set it up, the order, the last result, and the times it was set and last run. For each sorted parent it stores the previous order as page IDs with a time, kept for 90 days. It also keeps a list of kept parents and short-lived locks while a sort runs. It does not read page bodies. Each week it reports the stored account IDs to the Atlassian personal-data service, and rules of closed accounts are deleted. Uninstalling removes the data.

Support

Write to support@hullspark.com or use the Support page. Include the page ID of the parent and what you saw. Do not send page content.