Insert link in template referencing the page to be created

[Jens Bothur]

Hi folks,

can I somehow insert a link into a template that after page creation is referencing to the page just created?

Something like: [link | $thisPage]

Thanks in advance!

Use Case: I created a template for a document me and my team are creating regularly. This document contains message stubs that will be copy/pasted elsewhere. Now I want to have a link in those message stubs referencing the created document. So that people reading the posted message easily can find their way to the document.

As we do this a lot it is quite cumbersome to replace the link manually and it would be very convenient if the message stub already contains the correct link.

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hi Jens,

This is not possible in Confluence Cloud. There is an existing feature request for Global Variables, and perhaps "currentPage" can be a variable that is included if we implement this.

• CONFCLOUD-3999 Global Variables

I would recommend commenting on the feature with your exact requirements, and placing a vote in order to show the popularity of such a feature.

For any Server customers that come across this question, it might be possible creating a User Macro to use on the template, and you can try this suggestion to obtain the URL of the current page:

• Can the URL of the current page be used as a variable?

I'm sorry I couldn't provide you a better option in Cloud, but I would recommend that you take a look at Atlassian Marketplace and see if there's an add-on that helps accomplish what you require.

Regards,

Shannon