PAGE TREE or CONTENT TREE

[Ed Geerlings]

How can I prevent the collaps of a page in the page tree when I expand another page?

[Rita Nygren]

If you are not looking at the on-page pagetree macro but trying to expand the child pages on the sidebar, here's what I found:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-automatically-expand-show-all-child-pages-in-the-sidebar/qaq-p/333429

or 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Sidebar-Default-Behavior/qaq-p/700342

[Rita Nygren]

I have an absolute vanilla page tree I tested this on, and I don't get that response - clicking the expand carrot doesn't affect a previously expanded page.  Can you describe the problem further?

[Ed Geerlings]

Hi Rita, Yes I can describe any further. Suppose a haven TREE that looks like this

A

B

C

D

where B and C can be  expanded

A

B

      b

C

      c

D

If I click on D then B and C will collapse and I will get

A

B

C

D

[Rita Nygren]

If you click to navigate to a new page, then upon the next return to the page with pagetree macro on it, the macro appears collapsed ... I think that is what the functionality is supposed to do, and I'd be disappointed if it didn't.  Options I can think of for you are a) modify the page tree to have the "expand all" so you can quickly open it up to all pages or b) make a habit of rightclicking and opening in a new tab.

[Ed Geerlings]

how do I modify the page tree?

[Rita Nygren]

Edit page

Click on the page tree object - there should be an edit button appearing - click that edit.

Look for the checkbox to expand all.  

Save the page tree object

Save the page.

[Ed Geerlings]

where is the Edit page

[Rita Nygren]

In the upper right - it says EDIT     SAVE FOR LATER    WATCHING  - That EDIT gets you in edit mode.  Please view this video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqn0k6yw51g  

[Ed Geerlings]

ok i got that, thanks

but then you write "Click on the page tree object - there should be an edit button appearing - click that edit. Look for the checkbox to expand all.  "

I don't find that checkbox