I’m confused by the behavior I’m seeing with regard to “Home”, would love to understand the philosophy behind it (unless it’s a bug, which seems like a possibility).
We have home set as follows; I think this is the default but am not sure:
So I if I click on the “Home” icon in the breadcrumbs up top, it will always take me to the page called “Home”.
If, while at the Home page, I click “create” to make a new page (I’ll call it “New Page Under Home”), it looks like this:
This suggests pretty unamibiguously that the new page will be created as a subpage of “Home”. However, when I create the page, it ends up as a sibling of Home, not a subpage. This:
Becomes this:
So, I’m not sure I understand what Home means. Or rather, it seems to mean two different things: clicking on the home icon brings you to the page called “Home”, but in terms of showing the path to the page, the Home icon actually means “root of the wiki”. Right now I’m not actually sure how to create a subpage of Home, it seems impossible.
The wiki home page is (by default) a top level page, meaning that it doesn’t have a parent page, its parent is the wiki itself. But you can have other top level pages. Creating a new page from the wiki home page creates (by default) such a top level page, as noted on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/Features/DocumentLifecycle/#HByusingtheAddPageaction . But you can use the location picker to select a different parent when creating the page if you really want to have a child of the wiki home page.
Thank you, I see now on the lifecycle page that “Home” is a special case. I’m not sure I understand the rationale for it, but it clearly is intentional so I’ll roll with it.
