Folders as new Confluence content type

 What is happening?

As it was announced in the Atlassian's RFC: New Confluence Content Type , folders are coming! Organization in Confluence has always been a problem. We are talking about the parent and the child pages. What is so unique with this solution is to have a file management for these pages which will create the feel of having the structure.

The thing is, everything will stay the same, but the actual aesthetics will be changed. This is good, since you won't be feeling that you are in the wiki editor. Well...you actually are since Confluence is using wiki in the URL in order to separate itself from Jira. 

   

So this will be the new look of the UI. 

New APIs will be included

As it says from the article, there will be additional changes. I am lazy to write, so I will just copy this from the article:

1. Rest APIs.
   a. Endpoints that return children/descendants and ancestors for a Content that support the following expansion parameters will be affected. E.g.
       i. ancestors - will now return Folders in the response.
       ii. childTypes.all - this will not be affected immediately but will include Folders in the future.
   b. Endpoints under Content - children and descendants will not be affected immediately but we will include Folders in the response in the future.
       i. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/child
       ii. /wiki/rest/api/content/{pageId}/move/{position}/{targetId}
       iii. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/child/{type}
       iv. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/descendant
       v. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/descendant/{type}
       vi. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/pagehierarchy/copy
       vii. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/copy
   c. Content body expand will be empty for Folders
       i. /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/expand=body.storage

Not sure how many of you use GraphQL, that's why I didn't include it here.