Short link to a page section (not containing the full name).

Petr M

Greetings, at my job I'm currently tasked with linking various snippets of our documentation in Confluence to an external (outside of Confluence) platform (it is not a web site, the details are irrelevant). Links have to be relatively short (about 100 characters long). While I can obtain a short link to the whole page using the share button, when it comes to referencing a paragraph (through a heading link or an anchor link) it seems like the resulting link is going to contain the page title. The title itself can already be too long, if it's not in ASCII it can often take THOUSANDS of characters when URL-encoded. Is there any way I can make the links shorter?

Florian Bonniec

Hi @Petr M 

 

If you want a robust solution I would not include the page name in the URL. So in addition to the URL length you have, there is also the issue when a page is renamed, the link broke if it contains the name.

The solution is to use the url that have the page ID in it or better the tiny link generated from the Share button.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence/kb/how-to-programmatically-generate-the-tiny-link-of-a-confluence-page/

Regards