Is it Possible to Auto Generate Unique IDs or Numbers for All Pages?

Question

I'm writing an operations manual with load of SOPs and Work Instructions and I want to assign unique ID numbers to all of the documents I'm making. Does anyone know if it's possible to make this a default setting for all new documents / pages? And, Is it possible to customize the numbering / ID? For example, instead of using a random 6 or 8 digit number, I'd like to use pre-fixes that correlate to the section (i.e. chapter) where the page is published. For example, a page that is a SOP under a section General could have an ID as such: GEN_SOP_001.

Pramodh M · Answer

Hi @Brian Geraghty

Welcome to the Community!!

Please go through the Post here to understand how the Page ID is generated
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-are-PageIDs-generated/qaq-p/1551465

There is an open feature request to customize page IDs
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70335

Hope this is clear and helps you :-)

Thanks,
Pramodh

Fabian Lim · Answer

Hi @Brian Geraghty

Welcome to the community.

There are feature requests that you may want to vote for here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/the-differences-between-various-url-formats-for-a-confluence-page-278692715.html

Regards