Working with Anchors

I need to link to an anchor from outside Confluence.  What's the URL for that?  I've tried page#anchorname without success.

Hi,

    In the opposite direction to the post above, was wondering what the syntax might be to address an anchor (inside a confluence space/page) via a link (email etc.) from the outside.

    I have made a (failed) attempt by appending #table_anchor to  the 'tiny' link from the page's info tab. It looks something like tiny_link#table_anchor.

    When clicking on the link from an email message, the page opens but does not advance to the anchor.

    Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

    Derek B. 

I am playing with the evaluation version to see if this is what our company needs. I tried placing 2 anchors on the same page, like the top and bottom example above.

On the first one, the link was on the top of the page, and it worked beautifully leading me to the bottom of the page where the anchor was.

Then I tried doing the opposite: placing an anchor on the top of the page, and the link at the bottom. I cannot get this to work, even though the syntax is correct. Actually, on the top I have "Upload .", but when I save and view all that shows up is "Upload ." 

Any idea what is going on here?

Thank you!

 Marta

I cannot get an anchor to work within a table. The link is from outside of the table, and the anchor itself is within the table. When I click on the link to jump to the anchor, nothing happens. Is there any way around this?

I am trying to use a heading as an anchor. to do this i am doing something like this (with various combinations), but nothing seems to work

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 any help is appreciated.

Has there ever been any consideration to add an "anchor index" macro that would automatically list all of the anchors on a page? For instance, let's say that I have a page with 4 anchors:

{anchor:A} Text A
{anchor:B} Text B
{anchor:C} Text C
{anchor:D} Text D

It would be nice to be able to have add something like this to the top of the page:

{panel}
{anchor-index}
{panel}

And it would return actually present the following:

Text A
Text B
Text C
Text D

Hopefully this makes sense. Really what I am looking for is something more a long the lines of what mediawiki users are accustomed to using. I think they call them "sections". But basically it allows you (for long documents) to automatically create an index (or TOC) at the top of the page (based on the sections that you create throughout the document). Or is it possible to do this using something other than anchors?

Thanks!

Using links to a header on a different page from within the same space does not appear to be working at all. Even making an anchor above the header and using it does not work. The link merely goes to the top of the page where the header (or anchor) resides instead of to the location on the page. I've used IE 7 and Firefox and get the same result. Can you please let me know what to do? thanks!

Does anyone know if there is an anchor-include macro? I would like to be able to include sections from one document in another document. I have looked at using the excerpt and excerpt-include macros for this, but it appears that you can only use the excerpt macro once per document. I want the ability to include the section of text and not just a link to the section. Any ideas?

Does anchor work fine when used in tempates? I have tested this in a page and that worked fine but when I try to include the same code in the template (global template), it is highlighted in red
appendix ?

Am I doing something wrong?

I would like to create an anchor in a Confluence page and then reference it in a URL that I am sending to a colleague.  I can create the anchor just fine, and I have tested it by using an internal link from another wiki page to that page and it works fine.  But, if I append the #nameofanchor to the tinylink URL:

*http://wiki.xxx.local/x/nYBJ#nameofanchor*

or to the other type of URL:

*http://wiki.xxx.local/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4817053#nameofanchor*

nothing happens (it goes to the page, but not down to the anchor).

What is the syntax for a URL from someplace outside the wiki, to a page inside the wiki, including the anchor?

And (hoping that that uses the TinyURL from the Info page so that it is stable), a step by step guide to constructing that case in the above discussion would be really helpful.

Thanks!

I am editing Confluence wiki pages which are very long.  These pages have headers that would make a good menu at the top of the page to allow readers to jump to that particular section (very much like Wikipedia entries have).  I'd like to put something near the top of such long wiki pages that easily let the reader jump to a particular section, but I want this internal list of links to be automatically built and maintained by the wiki --- every time someone adds a new h1. this menu grows and the list of links are sorted according to how the h1's appear in that page.

I thought of using the children macro but that only targets child pages.  I need something that will build and maintain links to elements on the same page.

I can give IDs to the headers if that would help, but it would be great if this function assigned such IDs itself where IDs were not already present.

How should I make such a self-maintaining list of links?

If you give a heading a color, then you cannot use the heading name as an achor link.  This is a bug.

In my version of Confluence there is no Advanced setting after clicking the Insert Link button. So, instead, I entered the anchor name in the Url field of the Link tab and it worked.

Additionally, after saving, I highlighted the linked word and clicked Insert Link again. I noticed it removed the anchor name from the Url field and automatically appended it to the end of the Link Text like so - [Series|#series-anchor].

Can anyone please explain to me how to link to a heading on the same page. For example, I have Heading 4 with the name Power source. I want to link to this heading from another place on the same page. What should I type on the Advanced tab of the Insert Link window?

I do not have the Advanced setting on the Insert Link dialog. I tried entering the heading name in the URL field, but that does not work. I tried entering it with and without spaces. I also tried creating an anchor and linking to that within the same page, but that doesn't seem to work either. Any ideas? Is it possible that my version of Confluence doesn't support this?

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I looked back at Sashidaran's post and as able to get things working. Thank you!

Please amend the documentation to say that every heading is automatically an anchor 

Hi. We're using 3.5.x, but I'm unable to comment to the corresponding topic in that version's space.

I have noticed that when you change a page or heading, links to that heading/anchor are not updated dynamically.

In fact, when I changed the name of a page used in a link that included an anchor (#), the link broke completely.

If you change just the heading, the link still works, but it goes to the top of the page instead of to the heading/anchor.

Please advise.

Thank you.

Jay L. Abramoff, Information Developer, BMC Software