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Bulk Export

XPress is built around bulk export. The page tree supports multi-select, and you can include entire branches with one click. The result is a single PDF containing every selected page in order.

How to select multiple pages

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Open XPress in a space. The page tree on the left shows every page in that space, organized hierarchically. To build your selection:

  • Click checkboxes next to individual pages.
  • “Include All” next to any parent page selects that page and all of its descendants.
  • Select-All bar at the top of the tree picks everything in the space.
  • Deselect by unchecking a box, or by clicking the × on the page’s tag below the tree.

Selected pages appear as removable tags below the tree so you can see exactly what’s in the export at a glance.

Tree expansion

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The page tree is lazy-loaded — child pages appear when you expand their parent. For large spaces this keeps the initial load snappy. Expand a branch and its children appear with their own checkboxes.

Page order in the PDF

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Pages appear in the final PDF in tree order — the order they appear in the space’s page hierarchy, top to bottom, then children below their parent. You can’t reorder pages within a single export, but you can run multiple smaller exports if you need a specific order.

Performance

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Bulk exports queue as a single background job. The progress bar updates as each page renders. Typical guidance:

  • Up to ~50 pages: usually completes in well under a minute.
  • 50–200 pages: a few minutes; image-heavy pages add time.
  • Very large exports (hundreds of pages with lots of images): may approach the per-job time limit. If you hit a timeout, split the selection into smaller batches.

The Exports tab keeps the last 20 jobs per space so you can find a finished bulk export later without having to re-run it.

What if I want the whole space?

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Click the select-all checkbox at the top of the page tree. Every page in the space gets included. This is the fastest way to produce an archive PDF of a space.

Things bulk export does not do

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  • Reorder pages — order follows the page tree.
  • Insert page breaks between top-level pages — pages flow continuously; there’s no automatic chapter-break for each parent.
  • Generate a table of contents for the bulk export — Confluence’s own ToC macro on individual pages renders normally, but XPress doesn’t synthesize a master ToC for the whole bulk PDF.

If any of these would meaningfully change how you use XPress, tell us at support@bytera.tech.

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