how to SIMPLY create a link to anchor to my confluence site from external site

Richee Pitchee

hi, I have read all the posts how to create links to anchor (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/links-776656293.html) I have learned, what is the syntax, from that page. OK. But I am looking for a simple way to grab the link to my page that is in this syntax.

That is to say, I do not want to manually write the link according to this guide: http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/Page+name#pagename-anchorname

I am looking for a place, that I can copy the link, that includes spacekey, pagename... to my site. then I will only add the cross and anchor name and I can copy the link to my external site and it will work.

my problem is, that manually puzzling this link together takes a lot of time and several tries: i have to find the space key, that I have to play with two versions of the pagename and only then I can add the anchor name.

The ideal way would be that the Anchor macro could contain the link in the UI that I could only copy to my clipboard.

linking to an anchor is very complicated for me 

 

thanks for hints, maybe I am missing something obvious

Zak Laughton

Hi Richee,

The easiest way to get the link for an anchor on a page is to create Confluence link to the anchor, then copy the link URL.

Here are the steps I'd take on a page that has an anchor titled "myanchor":

1. Click Edit.
2. Type [#myanchor]
   The open bracket should start the link creation, and the close bracket will create the link.
3. Save the page.
4. On the newly created link, right-click > Copy link URL

Now you can paste the correctly formatted URL wherever you'd like, without manually trying to create the URL.

I hope this helps!
-Zak