Sub-pages and access inheritance

A page can hold other pages. Sub-pages show at the bottom of their parent under Pages inside, in the page tree beside the page, and under the folder in your workspace's sidebar.

• At the bottom of a page, choose Add a sub-page, pick a template and choose Create page.
• In the page, type /page: Markdrop makes an empty sub-page and puts a link to it where you typed.

You need to be signed in and able to edit the parent.

A sub-page lives in its parent's workspace and folder. Breadcrumbs at the top of the page lead back up through its parents.

A new sub-page inherits its parent's access: whoever can read the parent can read the sub-page, and nobody else. That includes the parent's password, its workspace, the people it's shared with and its sign-in requirement. When you change the parent's access, its sub-pages follow at once, and anyone who loses access loses it on the sub-pages too.

Set a sub-page's own access from its Share dialog. From then on it keeps that access whatever happens to the parent. In Pages inside such a page is marked Own access.

Breadcrumbs only show the parents a reader can open.

On a workspace's custom domain, a sub-page's address includes its parents: docs.acme.com/<folders>/<parent>/<sub-page>. The markdrop.in link stays markdrop.in/<sub-page>.

You need to be signed in and able to edit both the page and the page you move it into. Its sub-pages move with it.

The page tree beside a page lists the pages around it. Drag a page:

• onto another page (the row lights up) to put it inside, as that page's last sub-page;
• between two pages (a line shows where) to put it there, beside them;
• below the last page in a branch: move the pointer left to go up a level, as far as the top level.

Rest the pointer on a closed page for a moment and it opens, so you can drop into its sub-pages. A page can't go inside itself or one of its own sub-pages. Press Esc to cancel a drag.

The page shows in its new place at once. If Markdrop can't move it, it goes back and a message says why. Undo in the message moves it back.

In your workspace's sidebar, drag a page onto another page to put it inside, or onto a folder to move it to the top level of that folder.

Without dragging (or from the keyboard), choose Move to… from the page's ⋯ menu, or from the ⋯ next to a page in the page tree. Search, then pick:

• Top level of its folder (for a sub-page): it leaves its parent.
• A folder of the workspace, or the workspace's top level.
• A page you can edit in the same workspace. Personal pages list your own documents outside workspaces.

Use the arrow keys and Enter to choose. The breadcrumbs and the page tree follow the move.

Pages move within their workspace (or among your personal pages). To file a page in another workspace, move its top page.

A sub-page follows its parent's access, so moving a page can change who can read it. Markdrop asks first, for example: "Moving “Benefits” changes who can read it: now members of Acme; after the move, only its owner." Choose Move anyway or Cancel. Only the page's owner can make a move that changes who can read it. A page with its own access keeps it wherever it goes.

AI apps move pages with move_page, and confirm the same way.

When you delete a page that has sub-pages, Markdrop asks what to do with them:

• Keep them: move them up a level. Each sub-page takes the deleted page's place under its parent.
• Delete the sub-pages too.

• Who can open what
• Folders