What is a collection?

Collections are groups of spaces focused around a specific topic, team or purpose. You can think of them as a folder for your spaces.

Aside from organizing your content, some of the key features of collections are:

• The ability to manage permissions of spaces at scale allowing you to override the organization-level defaults (read more about that in permissions).

• The ability to customize your collection and publish the spaces within it as variants (read more about that in collection publishing).

A collection in GitBook

Create a collection

You can create a collection directly in the sidebar:

Create a new collection from the sidebar

Or, in the collection view, by clicking the new collection button:

New collection button in the collection view

Move a collection

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click move to... from this menu and then choose its new location.

Nest collections

Collections can be nested inside each other, creating a collection -> sub-collection -> space hierarchy.

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click move to... from this menu and then choose its new location. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the collection to its new location.

When you publish the primary collection, any nested collection does not show up as a variant.

Delete a collection

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click delete from this menu to delete the collection.

Deleting a collection is final, but spaces inside a deleted collection will be moved to 'Trash' and can be restored up to 7 days after deletion.