Using Confluence Cloud and Scroll Export to PDF, how do I get numbered Table captions?

[Lillian (C) Bell]

Using Confluence Cloud
Scroll Document installed
Scroll Export to PDF installed

I set up a custom PDF template and the figure captions are working and numbering properly. But, I can't get the table captions to work, no matter what I try.

In my Confluence page (in Scroll Documents), I enter:

Caption Name for the Table
<table>

The caption name is plain text, left justified. The table follows immediately afterward, no spaces. It's my understanding that this should be recognized as a table caption and configured according to the setup in the template: bold text, centered, with numbering like this:

Figure 1. Caption Name for the Table

In the template, I have Captions set to "Use image captions and titles as figure captions and I have table caption position set to "Display before tables."
I have numbering set up for table captions 
Style: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
4p indent
Prefix: "Table" 
Suffix: "."

Anyone have ideas or insight?

[Ericka Bastias · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lillian (C) Bell

Ericka from K15t here, following up on @Kris Klima _K15t_  answer :). First of all, it’s great that you’re using Scroll PDF Exporter and Scroll Documents to make this move of your technical documentation!

To have your Table Caption styles applied, you need to use our free app Scroll Exporter Extensions.

From your post, it looks like you already have this app installed, as you have access to the Scroll Title Macro. When you add table captions using this macro, by wrapping your table in it and entering the caption in the right-hand panel of the editor, the caption styles defined in the Template Editor will be automatically applied during export. The macro also allows you to further style captions directly within the Confluence page, if needed.

The "captions" referenced in the Template Editor are exactly the captions added via the Scroll Title Macro. 

Here’s a link to some useful documentation on this topic. If you need any additional help, feel free to contact our support team or reply to this answer with your questions and I will follow up.

[Lillian (C) Bell]

Ericka,

That works! I wasn't pasting the table in the Scroll Title macro and thus wasn't seeing the sidebar options. I appreciate your help!

[Kris Klima _K15t_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lillian (C) Bell and welcome to the Community.

I'm from K15t, maker of Scroll PDF Exports. I'll share your post internally :) 

[Lillian (C) Bell]

Hi Kris! Thanks for getting back to me. I'm working on moving the entire technical documentation process at my company to a Confluence/Jira based system. I'm almost there, but I need Scroll PDF Exporter to create table captions and auto number them within my document. I'm using Scroll Documents and a page tree and I'll be pulling in other pages, so all the figure and table caption numbering has to happen when the document is exported with the Scroll PDF Export template I set up.  So far:

• The Caption macro is not available in my macro list.
• The Scroll Title macro is available, but there's no way to configure it in the template.
• Plain text didn't work because I don't have a Paragraph Style in the document for Table Caption or Figure Caption.

The figure captions are working, but that's because they're in the figure "envelope" in the document and the exporter is triggered to format and number the caption. No such trigger seems to be available for the tables.

Is there an upgrade I need to ask my IT department to get? We've had Confluence and Scroll PDF Exporter for a while, but our Scroll Documents is a demo version (although I just requested that it be purchased). The entire documentation scheme for our company will fall apart if I can't get the auto numbering for tables to work. I can't manually number them with page trees and inserted pages from other documents.

I urgently need to get this process working for our company, so any help you can provide would be great. Thanks!

[Patryk Grzegorz · Accepted solution]

n Confluence Cloud with Scroll PDF Exporter, the built-in Table of Contents macro doesn't always generate clickable internal links in the exported PDF reliably—often they point back to Confluence pages instead of PDF anchors.
A reliable fix is to insert the {scroll-toc} macro (from Scroll) at the top of your page instead of the standard TOC macro. It creates a proper PDF-native table of contents with working hyperlinks to sections within the document. Just place it where you want the TOC to appear, configure levels if needed, and export via Scroll. That usually sorts the internal navigation without extra CSS hacks.
If you're already using the standard TOC and want to keep it, check your template settings in Scroll for any override that might disable anchors. Works consistently for us on longer docs. Let me know if it behaves differently on your side.

[Lillian (C) Bell]

Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not having trouble with the TOC. I need Scroll PDF Exporter to create table captions and auto number them within my document