Using tel: and sip: hyperlinks

Question

I'm trying to use tel: and sip: hyperlinks in Confluence Cloud. When I create the links in the page editor and test them, they work, but when I save the page, the URI is replaced with a #.

Is there any way to use tel: and sip: links in Confluence Cloud?

Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps · Answer

@Jonathan Sayce as part of the link manager feature in our app Space Content Manager we have created this section in our docs I think you will find useful.

It outlines how to use URLs, emails, phone numbers in Confluence hyperlinks. It doesn't include sip: because we did not think about it, we need to test it. If you have success using sip: please share.

Jonathan Sayce · Answer

Hi @Barbara Szczesniak yes - a tel: link should initiate a call when clicked (normally used on a phone) and a sip: link can be used to open a messaging application - where I work, if I click on a sip: link then it opens MS Teams.

The frustrating thing is that you can create these links in the page editor and they actually work, right up until the point when you save the page, then the links get stripped out and replaced with a #

Thanks for that link - I've voted and commented.

Barbara Szczesniak · Answer

@Jonathan Sayce Are you trying to create links that someone can click to initiate a call? I've never tried this.

This section of the documentation (https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-links-and-anchors/#Link-to-an-email-address) describes inserting an email link, but it doesn't mention anything about call links, so I'm not sure if these are supported in Confluence.

I did find this ticket, which was last updated a few weeks ago, but it is marked as in the Long Term Backlog. You may want to vote for, add comments, and watch the ticket: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-75773