Referencing a text source?

Question

Is there a way for a Confluence page to populate by referencing a text file?  I am NOT talking about cutting/pasting or importing text; rather, I am talking about taking a separate text file (i.e. somefile.txt) and referencing that file with something similar to an Include macro.

I read that there's an HTML Include macro (which is ostensibly disabled by default for security reasons) -- maybe something similar to that?

ray.kim · Answer

Because I've been tasked with finding a way for engineers to store documentation with their GitHub code, and be able to post updates with minimal (or, preferably, no) intervention with updating Confluence pages.

We were thinking that maybe being able to access text files stored with GitHub might potentially be a way to resolve this, but if this isn't possible, then I guess we'll have to look into something else.

Dominic Lagger · Answer

Hi @ray.kim

What do you want to achieve?

If you just want to reference, then you just simply add the link to the file.

If you want to reference some text in this file, then the answer is no, that's not possible. In fact, I would suggest you to add text from the *.txt file into confluence. a *.txt file doesn't make any sense in confluence... It's just text, so why not putting it direct into a confluence page.

Regards, Dominic