Page Tree Sorter
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Page Tree Sorter keeps your Confluence page tree in order by itself: you choose A–Z, Z–A or manual per page or folder, and new, renamed and moved pages fall into place.
All screenshots show the app in the demo space Kilowatt Commons. Select a screenshot to see it at full size.
Give any page or folder one of four modes: Inherited, A–Z, Z–A or Manual. The mode applies to its children, and every level below inherits it until a deeper setting takes over. The deepest setting always wins.
The dialog shows the effective mode and the page it comes from, so you never have to guess.
Keep a hand-curated process in its logical order right next to an incident log that lists the newest entry first. Here, Customer Onboarding is set to Manual and Incident Reports to Z–A.
The byline under the page title shows the mode at a glance: ⇅ A–Z,
⇅ Z–A, ⇅ ⋮⋮ for manual and
⇅ ↳ for inherited. Select it to open the dialog.
When a page is created, renamed or moved, the app sorts its level again, usually within seconds; Confluence can delay events by up to about three minutes. Editing a page and restoring one from the trash trigger a check too; if the order is right, nothing is moved. If someone drags a page out of order by hand, the order is restored.
Only the items that are out of place are moved. When you change a mode, every inheriting level below is sorted again.
Numbers sort naturally: Release 2.9 comes before Release 2.10, and Chapter 2 before Chapter 10. Accented letters and umlauts sort with their base letter.
Pages, folders, whiteboards, databases and smart links are sorted together by title, so everything on a level follows one rule.
The Sorting page under Space apps in the space navigation lets you browse the tree level by level. For each item you see its type, its own mode and the effective mode.
Confluence has no page menu for folders, so this is where you set the mode of a folder. Pages work here too.
The same page lists every mode set in the space, with who set it and when. Open the level from there or reset it to inherited with one click.
Rebuild index recreates this overview from the pages, for example after a reinstall.
Sort once sorts a page and its whole subtree in one run, without saving a mode. Before it starts, it shows how many pages and folders are below the page, as far as you can see them, including branches set to Manual. It starts only from a page’s dialog, not from a folder.
The standard run leaves branches set to Manual alone. Hardcore also sorts those branches and is available to space admins only. A standard run by an editor moves the whole subtree with the app’s permissions; only edit permission on the start page is checked.
All details, from inheritance to the Sorting space page, are in the documentation: Read the documentation →
| Action | Who |
|---|---|
| Set or reset a mode | Space admins |
| Sort once (standard) | Anyone who can edit the page |
| Sort once with hardcore | Space admins |
Permissions are checked on the server, not only in the interface.
Page Tree Sorter is built on Atlassian Forge and uses no external hosts. It sends no data to external servers and neither reads nor stores page content. It keeps only what it needs to sort: page and folder IDs, titles for the overview, modes and the account ID of the person who set a mode. Details are in the privacy policy.
Page Tree Sorter is a paid app, coming soon to the Atlassian Marketplace, and free for sites with up to 10 users. Without an active license, sorting pauses and all settings are kept. The app is provided under the terms of use.
Use the contact form, in English or German. You get a first response within 2 business days (Monday to Friday, CET/CEST); if sorting has stopped working completely, within 1 business day. Please include your site URL, the page and what you expected.