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Original page URL in the production space
/wiki/spaces/PROD/pages/2438561796/Product+Team+Ethos
Published page URL in the development space
/wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/2438693479/Product+Team+Ethos
Published page URL in the production space with new contentID
/wiki/spaces/PROD/pages/2438823986/Product+Team+Ethos
The backward publishing of pages from the production source space to the development space updates the spacekey used in the page URL to the production spacekey.
this is a new page in the PROD space and will have a new contentID
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If you publish a child page and the parent page is not present in the target space, the child page will be created and placed in the root directory of the target space. This is most likely to occur when using single-page publishing option as it only publishes the current page and the target space parent page no longer exists or has not yet been published. You may need to re-publish the parent page.
Hierarchy is maintained where possible when publishing - however in some cases the order in the hierarchy is not maintained and my need to be manually changed in the target space.
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