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Copying page messes up links to anchors/headings

M_S_

I have a page with a number of links that point to anchors (headings) within the same page. This is using the "#heading" syntax.

However, when I copy the page, all links are messed up, so that instead of refering to "#heading", they refer to "Copy of pageX#heading". Even more annoying, the link text is also updated.

Is this a known defect or something that can be prevented somehow?

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Thomas Schlegel

Hi,

I don't think that this is a defect. If I copy a page with "self-referencing" links, I would expect that these self-referencing links keep their self reference. They should link to the same page where they are included and so they also do that on the copy.

M_S_

Not sure if you agree or disagree with my statement.

I did more testing and am fully confused.

The source page has

<ac:link ac:anchor="Introduction" />

(where introduction is a heading on the same page). This shows as

Introduction

When I copy the page it shows as

Copy of PageX#Introduction

However, when I then edit the copied page the copied page goes back to normal (markup and display) - even without applying any actual edits.

I would consider this to be an error.

Thomas Schlegel

I don't understand the problem, to be honest. My original test page looks like this:

<h1>test</h1>
...
<p><ac:link ac:anchor="test" /></p>

If I copy the page and look at the storage format, it looks exactly the same.

If I look at the target of the link on the original page, it refers to:

http://<confluence-url>/display/SPW/links+anchor+links#linksanchorlinks-test

and the copy:

http://<confluence-url>/display/SPW/Kopie+von+links+anchor+links#Kopievonlinksanchorlinks-test

Robert Reiner _smartics_

If I understand Working with Links correctly, it seems to me that

page#anchor

is the implied form of

#anchor

iff 'page' is the current page.

So it may be considered an issue to not fully normalize the link, although the rendered result is - as Thomas has shown - identical.

I suppose M.S. encounters an actual problem for a use case due to Confluence not 'normalizing' the links on the copied page fully. Maybe this could provide some more context for this question and therefore we could understand why this should be considered an error?

AnnWorley

@M_S_ I could not reproduce the issue on my Confluence 6.3.3 test instance so I created a support ticket for you so I can take a closer look. You should get an email from me shortly, asking for logs.

AnnWorley

For anyone else experiencing this issue, similar behavior has been reported as a bug:

An anchor link's name changes after editing the page with Collaborative Editing switched on or set to limited

M.S. is going to turn off collaborative editing to see if that fixes the issue for his instance.

AnnWorley

Turning off Collaborative editing eliminated the issue M.S. was experiencing with linking to anchors when copying or editing.

Collaborative editing can be set to Off mode at Confluence Admin>Collaborative Editing>Change mode.

Stephen Kairys_keaglp

@AnnWorley

Has this issue been logged as a bug in JIRA? We've just discovered we've been exposed to

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51690/

and we're turning off Collaborative Editing b/c of it. We would like to turn it back on once 51690 is fixed. However, unless we're confident that this "copy" bug won't affect us, I'd be reluctant to turn it back on.

Thanks.

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