How can I create links to anchors on a page that work in excerpts as well as in the original page

Jessica Weissman

I have a page with a lot of anchors, that includes a list of links to those anchors.

I use the form of wiki markup for the link that has: Title of Page#AnchorName

This works fine as long as I am on the original page with the anchors.

If I put the link list inside an excerpt and display that excerpt on another page, Confluence helpfully substitutes the name of the current page for the name of the original page.

Is there a way to do what I want without having to maintain two separate sets of link lists, one on each page?

Version 6.3 if that makes any difference

AnnWorley

I found the same behavior in Confluence 6.9 and you are seeing it in Confluence 6.3 so I reopened this bug: Anchor links to the current page break when included in a different page

Please do add a comment or a vote to emphasize your use case to the development team.

For now the workaround you mentioned of maintaining two sets of links is the only workaround I can think of, I agree it is unsatisfactory.