Is it possible to generate a page id

[Bruce Schlueter]

Hi all,

We use Confluence also as a Knowledgebase and what we would like to do is generate a unique page id. Does anybody know of such a solution?

Thanks,

Bruce

[David Simpson · Accepted solution]

I think this is really a duplicate of How to add a serial / issue number to a page in Confluence 4.0?

My answer to that likely holds up still:

Browse to Confluence Admin | Look & Feel | Custom HTML

Paste this in At the end of the HEAD:

<script>
AJS.toInit(function(){
  if (AJS.params.pageId != 'undefined') {
    AJS.$('#title-text a').prepend(AJS.params.pageId + ' ');
  }
});
</script>

It will prepend the pageId to the page title.

[Bruce Schlueter]

You are right, this is a duplicate and your solution is close to what we are looking for. Actually we are running into the same problems as the id will not be printed when doing a PDF export and that it is not searchable. Do you have any ideas on this?

[David Simpson]

Either create a user macro with the following content:

$content.id

...then add the user macro to the page.

Or add the above to an appropriate place in the PDF template.

See: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Providing+PDF+Versions+of+your+Technical+Documentation

[Bruce Schlueter]

Thanks a lot for your assistance. I managed to write tha user macro and it works fine if I add it to a page, but I am somewhat not able to get it into the PDF export. What I did is added following lines to the CSS

1. @page
2. {
3. size: 210mm 297mm;
4. margin-top: 1.4cm;
5. margin-bottom:1.4cm;
6. margin-left: 1cm;
7. margin-right: 1cm;
8. padding: 1em;
11. @top-left;
12. {
13. content: $pageid;
14. font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
15. font-size: 6pt;
16. }
17. }

The name of the macro is pageid. Could anybody please tell me where I am going wrong? I read through the documentation without finding a hint how to add the macros. Or am I running into the item CONF-16733?

[Sarah Maddox [Atlassian]]

Hallo Bruce,

Each page in Confluence does have unique page ID. Would you be able to use the ID that Confluence generates? To see the ID of a page, view the "Information" screen for the page then look in the URL. For example, in this URL:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewinfo.action?pageId=135922

The page ID is "135922".

You can view the page by ID, using this URL format:

confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=135922

And edit it too, provided you have the right permissions:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/editpage.action?pageId=135922

Does that answer the question?

Cheers, Sarah

[Bruce Schlueter]

Hi Sarah,

that is not quite what we are looking for. But it would suffice if this id could be added to the page by a macro, so that if the title changes you still find the page by this id. Is there a possibilty to do so and if yes, can the existing pages be updated automatically so that these pages also contain the id?

Thanks, Bruce