Is there a way to add headers in table of contents of a PDF export using the External Process Pool?

Robert Beckman

This is something that's available using element(header) in combination with the PDF Space export header section in the PDF Layout when not using the External Process Pool, but it doesn't seem available when using the External Process Pool in Confluence 7.0.1.

Not using the process pool, we're able to target the Table of Contents specifically using the following CSS:

div.toc {
  page:toc ;
}

@page toc
{
@top-left
  {
     content: element(header);
  }
@bottom-left
  {
    content: element(footer);
  }
}

Using the external process pool, we're still able to target the ToC specifically and inject other CSS, but the content: element(header) and content: element(footer) functions don't seem to work. It works for the remainder of the pages, though, so it seems like the PDF Layout configuration is inactive for the table of contents generation, which, considering that the External Process Pool generates the table of contents separately from the pages, somewhat makes sense could occur, but not that it should occur.

Shannon S

Hello Robert,

Thank you for contacting us about this! I see you were able to get a hold of support, so I will summarize their response here. Just let me know if I miss anything or if there's anything you want to add that could help anyone in the future with the same requirement.

We supplied you with the following code, but it didn't work for your instance due to a limitation. 

@page title
{
    @top-center
    {
        content: "Document Title Goes Here"; /* This is the content that will appear in the header */
        font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
        font-size: 8pt;
    }
    @bottom-center
    {
        content: "Page " counter(page); /* This is the content that will appear in the footer */
        font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
        font-size: 8pt;
    }
    /* Any other page-specific rules */
}

The following feature request was created:

• CONFSERVER-59067 When using external process pool for space PDF export, header and footer customizations can't be added to table of contents

Let me know if there was anything further you wanted to include, or you can accept the answer if this helped you.

Regards,

Shannon