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# Navigating Nested Folders

### Summary

Brainfish supports nested folder hierarchies in your knowledge base, letting you group articles into sections, then into subsections, and so on. This guide shows how to navigate, expand, and reparent articles in a nested tree.

### When to use this

Use nested folders when:

* Your knowledge base has more than ~20 articles and you want to group them by topic.
* You need to mirror a structured information architecture (for example: *Onboarding → Account Setup → SSO Configuration*).
* You're building a public Help Center where the sidebar reflects your content's table of contents.

### How nested folders appear in the sidebar

In both the admin sidebar and the public Help Center sidebar, child articles indent under their parent. The indent level reflects the depth: a top-level section sits flush left, its direct children indent once, their children indent twice, and so on.

* Click a parent article's row to open it.
* Click the chevron next to a parent article to expand or collapse its children without opening the parent itself.
* The currently-open article is highlighted and its ancestors are auto-expanded so you always know where you are in the tree.

### Reparenting an article (changing its position in the tree)

To move an article into or out of a folder:


1. Open the article in the admin.
2. In the article's right-hand panel, locate the **Parent** field.
3. Pick a new parent from the dropdown (or clear it to promote the article to a top-level section).
4. The sidebar updates immediately.

Reparenting is also the way to *create* a folder: any article with at least one child becomes a folder in the sidebar.

### Related

* [How to Create Nested Articles for a Rich Content Hierarchy](/articles/how-to-create-nested-articles-for-a-rich-content-hierarchy-PuUAKnizTc) — practical workflow for building out a multi-level structure from scratch.
* [How to Manage Your Knowledge Base Articles](/articles/how-to-manage-your-knowledge-base-articles-iRO4nQjmS7) — the broader article-management surface.