Is there a way to see a page in a new version?

[NM]

Hi All,

I want to display a message in all pages of my space with a link that jumps to the newer version of the page, without having to add URLs manually.

Is there a way to do this please? 

Thanks!

[NM · Accepted solution]

For anyone looking into this thread, this is what I have been looking for: Confluence Space Jump Macro. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/space-jump-macro-792499201.html.

[NM]

Exactly! Thank you!!!

I know there's a solution for this. I saw it somewhere a while back but I can't find it now. I think Confluence uses it on their own docs.

[Doug Swartz]

Nidesha,

If Rob's suggestion is correct, do you have each version in it's own Confluence space? If you do, you should be able to do a single alteration to the documentation page template in the old version's space to add the message to each page for the old version.

[NM]

Rob's question is correct. That's exactly what I am trying to do. 

I want a link in each page- something that goes to the same page in the old documentation space, without me having to fill the URL manually. So this should ideally be a plugin kind of thing that automatically reads the old space key or something.

[Rob Woodgate]

Hi Nirdesha,

Unfortunately I don't know of any way to do this automatically.  Hopefully the clarification of the question will allow someone else to answer though....

if you find a solution can you post it here for future reference?

[NM]

Hi Rob, I found that the SpaceJump macro does the job.

[Rob Woodgate]

Hi Nirdesha,

Glad to hear you found a solution

[Rob Woodgate]

Hi Nirdesha,

It sounds like you're using Confluence for documentation and you've got pages for different versions of [whatever you're documenting].  So you've got pages for version 1, for example, and when people go to one of the version 1 pages you want an automatic link to the same page for version 2. 

Is that correct?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't quite understand the question.  When you look at a confluence page, you are always looking at the current version (i.e. "newer").  The url for a page does not change when you edit it and create a newer version.

To look at older versions of a page, you have to be digging through the page history.  Which has a link to the current version on it already.

So, I'm not really sure what you are looking for here?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Right, so it's nothing to do with page history or versions.

You are looking for something that can present Confluence pages or spaces as a set of docs directly related to an event such as a software release.  I think you need to look at something like "Scroll versions".

[NM]

Nic, this is my requirement:

1. I already have multiple spaces for multiple versions of a documentation. 
2. Usually, users find the old documentation through a Google search. 
3. When the user comes to the old documentation, I want to show them a link that goes as "view the same page in the newer version of the documentation".
4. The link should be generated from a macro/plugin so that I don't have to manually give the URL of the new version.

I explored the "Scroll versions" plugin but since I already have multiple spaces for multiple versions, I don't think that suggestion works. Confluence used to do this through some kind of plugin/macro that they add to the header.