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Is there a way to create links to pages that will be displayed on linked page?

Martin Heineman1

Hi,

is there a way or a macro, which allows to create a link to a target-page and creates automatically a back link to the source-page on the target page?

Source-Page: Target-Page:

Link(target-page) -------->

<---------------- Link (source-page)

I need this to create a very simple kind of database. Each database entry has a confluence page with page-properties and sometimes a page can have a link (like a database relation) to another page.

I can do this by hand but this is a lot of work.

thanks

martin

Accepted answers

Davin Studer

Here is a user macro that will make a list of the referring links to a page. You can tweak it to fit your needs.

## Developed by: Davin Studer
## Date created: 06/26/2014
## @noparams
#set($containerManagerClass=$content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))
#set($getInstanceMethod=$containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))
#set($containerManager=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))
#set($containerContext=$containerManager.containerContext)
#set($linkManager=$containerContext.getComponent('linkManager'))

#set($pages = $linkManager.getReferringContent($content))

#if($pages.size() &gt; 0)
&lt;ul class="referring-content-links"&gt;
#foreach($page in $pages)
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="$page.getUrlPath()"&gt;$page.getTitle()&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
#end
&lt;/ul&gt;
#end

You can put this into your Page Layout decorator (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Layouts) if you want it to show on every page.

$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{referring_content}")

All comments

Alejandro Conde Carrillo

Hello Martin.

There is not a way to add a reciprocal link in the page content. You could check the Page information (Tools > Page Information) where a list with the incoming list is displayed.

Davin Studer

Here is a user macro that will make a list of the referring links to a page. You can tweak it to fit your needs.

## Developed by: Davin Studer
## Date created: 06/26/2014
## @noparams
#set($containerManagerClass=$content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))
#set($getInstanceMethod=$containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))
#set($containerManager=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))
#set($containerContext=$containerManager.containerContext)
#set($linkManager=$containerContext.getComponent('linkManager'))

#set($pages = $linkManager.getReferringContent($content))

#if($pages.size() &gt; 0)
&lt;ul class="referring-content-links"&gt;
#foreach($page in $pages)
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="$page.getUrlPath()"&gt;$page.getTitle()&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
#end
&lt;/ul&gt;
#end

You can put this into your Page Layout decorator (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Layouts) if you want it to show on every page.

$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{referring_content}")

Davin Studer

Is this what you are looking for?

Martin Heineman1

Well, it is a first step. As i am a developer but do not have any knowledge of the macro language, it seems hard to get to the result. As the reciprocal linkin would be inside the key-value table of page properties, the macro should check wether the link on the refering page is also placed inside a key-value table, or better, is the value of a specific key in the table. Is there a way to do this with the macro language?

Davin Studer

It's might be possible ... you'd have to parse the page xml to do it though. Check the below links for information regarding the Velocity Templating Language and the Confluence API. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Macro+Template+Syntax https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Objects+Accessible+From+Velocity