Spaces, multiple levels of parents

Figured out that it is possible to have multiple levels of parents and children, but it's a little quirky. Had to add the lowest level first and associate them with a parent, and when I was done making child spaces I could go back and add the parent to a parent above it. If I did it the other way when I created the child spaces they couldn't see the parent if it was already linked to a parent already. 

Any idea if there is a limit to the number of parent levels that can be created? 

Now to make it so the child pages don't show by default on the Spaces page. Defeats the purpose of the nested structure. 

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    • Hi Garrett Ewald space has been built primarily for 2 levels of architecture - the last I heard was that the multi-level hierarchy was beta, it was developed specifically as a custom development for a client, who has a fixed architecture created by admin. Allow users to generate their own spaces with ongoing depth could be problematic - perhaps Anton L who developed this mod could comment.


      You can use the 'Top Level Spaces' block to show only the Parent Spaces.

      • The only thing that I see that is wrong with spaces is in the bug that won't allow the parent space to disappear. For example, when I uncheck the "Allow multilevel hierarchy (experimental)" box in the spaces settings, there is still a "parent space" area when creating a new space. If I delete this "parent space" item in the forms app, will it cause any trouble? I don't know if it will solve the problem.

        Edit: By disabling the options in the spaces settings, it should remove what it created.

        • top level spaces sounds perfect! So many little details to learn.  Wonder how it will behave with more than one parent level.

          • is there a way to change the order of spaces or groups? if not, maybe in the manage tab add a field for the sort order?

            • So that shows the Top level parent pages, but there isnt a way to see the second level in the same page design. clicking opens the parent where you can see the list of second level parents. maybe I should call them great grand parents, grand parents, parents, children.

              • Also, I have noticed that sometimes the parent selection doesn't get saved. Just made six new spaces and five of them didn't have the parent specified after I saved them. On the second try the parent was saved. 

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