hi there so I had a panicked phone from someone today who had very cleverly managed to delete a parent page with a lot of children and therefore lost all the pages (there are various forum posts about this issue) anyhoo after I said 'oh dear' I did some playing around and found the the child pages were still browsable (although not showing in sitemap/navigation).

I tested this in browsers on machines that had never visited the site before (so couldn't have cached them)

(using fake urls to spare their blushes) but basically:

say they had
abc.com/section1/subsection1/
abc.com/section1/subsection2/xzy/

and they deleted /section1/

I could still browse to
abc.com/section1/subsection1/
abc.com/section1/subsection2/xzy/

but could no longer browse to abc.com/section1/

so I'm thinking is it that children are deleted or is it actually the case that without the parent page the sitemap/navigation just simply doesn't know how to represent them and show them to you (after all the db has not explicitly been told to delete the child pages)?

And if this is the case might be it possible to expose them again with some code tweaking so you can access them again?

I don't know nearly enough about the backend workings of c5 to know the answers myself but it might be worth someone looking into(?)