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Remove Jira issue hyperlink in Confluence page

Jeremy_Villa

I have a Confluence page that has what we call "requirement ID" numbers in it, which are the same format as Jira issue keys, e.g. REQ-10. Confluence thinks that these are Jira issue IDs, and so it creates a Jira "browse" hyperlink for them, but I don't want that to happen.

In my case, the "REQ" actually happens to also be the name of a Jira project, as is often the case in our company...maybe that's why Confluence is trying to create this link. Regardless, I don't want Confluence to create the link.

How can I avoid Confluence's automatically creating this link? I just want the bare text, "REQ-10", in the page, not a link to a (nonexistent/incorrect) Jira issue.

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David Hazeel

You need to put a '\' before the hyphen. So rather than REQ-123 put REQ\-123. That will display the text without the link.

Jeremy_Villa

That was the first thing I tried, and unfortunately it just displayed literally "REQ\-123". This is within a table, if that makes any difference?

David Hazeel

I'm not sure if it being in a table would make a difference.

The only other thing I can think of is to disable the application link to Jira from Confluence - although that might have an impact on other integrations you have. If you do unhook them then it should stop any automatic links entirely.

Jeremy_Villa

Yeah, we do use the Jira links normally, so we don't want to disable the application link altogether.

Jignesh Patel_qr0vie

@David Hazeel was there a solution for this? I have come up with a script in java to remove. but when I hit refresh the hyperlink comes back on the confluence page.

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