Moving Blocks

Learn how to move a block to another page or space, what travels with it, and the rules that decide which destinations you can choose.

Moving a block relocates it and everything inside it. Where a copy leaves the original in place, a move takes the block out of where it was — so the page it came from no longer shows it, and the page it lands on does.

Moving a block

Open the block’s actions menu and choose Move to…, then search for the page or space you want it to land in. Choosing a destination moves the block immediately.

Everything nested inside the block travels with it. Moving a page moves the blocks on that page, the pages inside those, and so on down — you do not need to move the contents separately.

Why some destinations do not appear

The search only offers destinations the block can actually go to, so you will not pick somewhere the move then refuses. A page or space is left out when:

• You cannot edit it. Viewing or commenting somewhere is not enough to put content there.
• It does not accept that kind of block. Blocks nest according to their type — a heading holds no children, and a personal space does not take rooms or assignments, for example.
• It is inside the block you are moving. A block cannot be moved into its own contents.
• It is in a different organization. See below.

Moving between organizations and your personal space

A block stays inside the organization it belongs to. You cannot move content from one organization into another, even if you are a member of both — the two remain separate.

Your personal space follows the same principle. Whether content can cross between it and an organization depends on whether that organization owns your account, which is the case when your verified email address is on one of its verified domains:

• If an organization owns your account, you can move content between your personal space and that organization’s spaces, in both directions.
• If no organization owns your account, your personal space is separate. Content there stays there, and content in an organization’s spaces stays in that organization.

A block attached to a message belongs to whichever organization owns the room that message is in, so the same rules apply when you move it out of a conversation and into a page.

Moving versus copying

Use Move to… when content belongs somewhere else. Use duplicate or copy and paste when you want it in both places — see Block Sharing, Publishing, and Copying & Pasting for how copies behave.