Parent Page is: $webwork.htmlEncode($content.displayTitle)

[Benjamin van Caspel]

So Somehow I created a page that has a weird parent and I don't know how to change it to where we actually want it:

Parent Page
    Page: $webwork.htmlEncode($content.displayTitle)

It doesn't appear in the Reorder Page or the left "Pages" nav but when you're within that page the the breadcrumb says it's parented to the page we want. It also doesn't appear as an Orphaned Page.

If it wasn't for the comments (the page was reached through the email updates), I would delete it and make a new one.

[Simon Tost _TNG_]

We saw this in our instance, too.

Rebuilding the ancestor table as suggested by AnnWorley did not help us.

Looking at the database, we found that the 'parent' is not a regular page, but a page draft.
By just 'moving' the affected page back to it's intended parent we were able to repair the pagetree.

We found the affected pages in our database via

select contentid, title, content_status, contenttype, parentid 
from content
where parentid in (
  select contentid
  from content
  where content_status = 'draft'
    and contentid in (
      select parentid
      from content
      where contenttype = 'PAGE' and content_status = 'current'
    )
);

(This may turn up drafts, which are children of drafts, as well. Not sure how to deal with those. Used to be, you could get rid of all drafts by switching collaborative editing off and on...)

However, the really interesting question: How does this situation come about? -- I have no answer to. :-(

(Confluence 7.3.3)

[Simon Tost _TNG_]

Answer: Keep 'c' pressed, or  press 'create' multiple times in a row. :)

-> Tracking issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59887

[g]

Hi Benjamin,

 Please check this KB. It is possible that your page does not have a title.

 Cheers!

[AnnWorley]

Hi Benjamin,

The ancestor table in the Confluence database records the parent and descendant (child) relationship between pages. Please try Rebuilding the Ancestor Table to make the correct parent/child relationships show up as expected.

I look forward to hearing how it goes.

Thanks,

Ann