Reusable domain in links

Question

How (if at all possible) can I create links with reusable (like "excerpt-include") domain?

I'm writing technical documentation where in multiple pages there should be a link to an external resource. For every page the resource is different but the domain  part of the link is the same. The problem is that domain is a subject to change and in the case of change I don't want to go through hundreds of pages and edit the link.

I imagine it should look something like that: [{excerpt-include:_commonDomain|noframe=true}/some/resource]. This of course does not work for obvious reasons.

Am I missing something obvious or is this not possible to achieve atm?

lelininkas · Answer

Thank you for your suggestion. I've saved the script and will try it out when domain changes. It's a little bit sad that there is no simpler way though.

Stephen Deutsch · Answer

I'm not sure it would work for you, but I wrote a user macro to do a global search and replace, so if you are changing domains then it would be able to update it on every single page.  Unfortunately, it would also show you as editing 100's of pages at a time, but maybe it would be easier than trying to extract a domain from somewhere else, as you could just use the standard Confluence functions.  You can find the user macro here:

https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/display/STRMLN/Search+and+Replace+User+Macro

Just embed it in a blank page and you will be all set to go.