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A few questions about linking to headings

Eileen Palsson

From what I gather, in order to link to headings I have to create an anchor for each heading that I want to link to. Is this correct?

If I change the wording of the heading, do I have to go back and edit the link text of all links to that heading?

I export my content to PDF. Can I insert some type of field that will result in a page number (that is, the page where a specific heading is located) in the PDF output?

Thanks in advance!

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Fabienne Gerhard

Hi @Eileen Palsson

you don't have to create an anchor for a heading - you can link directly to the heading like linking to an anchor.
spacekey:Page Name#MyHeading

But as you mentioned - those links will break when you change the heading. So using anchors may be a better idea. Those don't break when you change your heading because they have a fixed name.

Not sure about your last question. Do you want to show where the link is going to? Because links will work in the pdf after export.

Hope this may help you!

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Fabienne Gerhard

Hi @Eileen Palsson

you don't have to create an anchor for a heading - you can link directly to the heading like linking to an anchor.
spacekey:Page Name#MyHeading

But as you mentioned - those links will break when you change the heading. So using anchors may be a better idea. Those don't break when you change your heading because they have a fixed name.

Not sure about your last question. Do you want to show where the link is going to? Because links will work in the pdf after export.

Hope this may help you!

Eileen Palsson

Thank you, @Fabienne Gerhard. I guess I'm going to be using anchors, since I don't want to have to commit myself to the wordings of headings for the rest of the life cycle of the documentation. :-/

But in case I do want to link directly to a heading: You used MyHeading as an example. What if the heading contains spaces? Do I need quotation marks or dashes or something?

About the last question: In the PDF I want it to say, See "My Heading" on page 47. Do you know offhand if that will work?

Thanks again!

Fabienne Gerhard

I would also prefer Anchors! Spaces in Headlines (and Anchors) are no problem. Works perfect in Page Names too.

Page name#The perfect Heading

Do you want to use links that work in the exported pdf (Link on a pdf page to another pdf page)? Not sure if this is going to work - links will be exported to the pdf and are still available BUT out-of-the-box they just link to your Confluence page - which I think is cool so that there are always the latest informations there. I'm pretty sure that you can also create links that just work in your pdf, but I didn't do that yet - sorry.

Eileen Palsson

Thanks again.

The reference within the PDF need to be clickable references to other pages within the same PDF. We intend to use this for end-user documentation, and our end users to not have access to our Confluence.

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