Is there a way to add a Page navigation tree (based on headings in the page) to the left side bar?

Question

Basically, I have a very large document (page) and instead of displaying its table of contents at the top of the page, I want to display a navigation tree in the left side bar based on the same criteria that generates the table of contents within the page (for example, if it finds a heading 1 then it adds to the tree).

But I want this to be in the left side panel without creating a page for each heading.

Is this possible?

jychang · Answer

I want to try this, but there no longer appears to be a sidebar section Confluence Cloud 1000.0.0-da503df1a09f.

I tried Space Settings > Look and feel > Page layout, but only Header and Footer sections exist under Page layout.  Then I searched in Jump to setting... and found Space Settings > Manage Space > Edit sidebar, but there are only two toggle buttons for Overview and Blog and no section to enter markup.

How do I add the TOC to the Sidebar in Confluence Cloud 1000.0.0-da503df1a09f?

Steven Higgs · Answer

Igor,

Thank you for your suggestion. It does add the type of TOC we want to the sidebar, but whenever you click one of the links (in this TOC), it refreshes the whole page, collapses the new TOC, and the focus goes back to the document link (rather than the section where we're trying to link to.)

Any suggestions?

James Dellow · Answer

Another approach might be to make use of sticky table headers, by putting the TOC in the table header and the content in the table rows beneath, then use the flat list option in the TOC macro. However, this will only work in certain scenarios.