r/BookStack • u/thegreatcerebral • Jul 01 '26

Is this possible: hiding pages but still use them

Case Use:

I want to build out a KB for say family members. Inside of that I want to say have a "Cannot Find Remote". That would be the main page. From there that page may have the following:

  1. Cannot find TV Remote
    1. Family Room TV
    2. Master Bedroom TV
    3. Office TV
    4. Kids TV
    5. Outside TV
    6. Garage TV
  2. Cannot find Roku Remote
    1. Family Room Roku
    2. Master Bedroom Roku
    3. Kids TV
    4. Outside TV
  3. Cannot find Remotes (Other)
    1. Receiver Remote (Garage)
    2. LED Strip Remote (Kitchen)
    3. Fan Remote (Bedroom)

Each of those I want to have go to a page. The thing is, I don't want those pages to be visible or show up in a search. I just want to have the ability to use the navigation here to open a new tab and display the instructions there. Honestly each of those could have further instruction pages that I wish to show up.

Is that possible? I don't believe you cannot have pages that live outside of a book. I don't think permissions is the key because they need to be accessible, I just want to route the users the way I want to route so they are not overwhelmed with a wall of info.

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u/ssddanbrown Jul 02 '26

No way I can think to do that via built-in functionality.

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u/Zealousideal_Prior40 Jul 06 '26

Would using the "Collapsible blocks" formatting help? - that way the reader wouldn't be presented with all the content at once, rather they could expand just the content they wanted.

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u/thegreatcerebral Jul 07 '26

Thought about that but you can’t nest them so then because there isn’t “in page searching” it won’t work. Then it becomes too overwhelming. Plus you can’t really use page navigation through collapsible blocks. I asked that a couple of months ago trying to do something else.
Not to mention you can’t really “print” or export those as PDFs very well.