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.
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.

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