"Mention/Call/Reference" pages

[Giulio Pengo]

Hello,

First time using Confluence community, hope I'm doing this right.

As a PO, I've been looking for a while for a feature allowing me to "Mention/Call/Reference" other Confluence pages from within one, as I'm editing it.
It appears to me that this does not exist in any form.
Let me present the use case, hoping that clarifies what I mean.

The stressful situation:

1. I start editing a Confluence page
2. I start writing about a certain subject
2.1 Now I'd like to reference the main page (or more than one page) regarding that subject
3. I open a new Chrome tab OR explode the pages index on the left of the Confluence space
4. I navigate Confluence pages until I find the aforementioned main page
5. I click on the "copy page link" button or copy the URL
6. I go back on the point where I was and paste it 

My desire/request/need: as a user I want to reference another Confluence page simply by "calling it" using a special character or the page elements (macros, info panels, etc.)

This is very similar to:
- mentioning other users using @ 
- referencing other tickets in Jira by simply typing down their KEY value and pressing the spacebar, which is a great feature


Hope you can help me or that this help provide a bit of context on a situation that might be stressful for other users.

Thank you and enjoy 2025!

[Rebekka Heilmann (viadee) · Accepted solution]

Hi @Giulio Pengo and welcome to the Community,

linking the page is the correct way to do it. However, you can use the /link macro which opens a small search bar. You can search for the Confluence page in there - usually no need to open new tabs.

You can format how that link is presented (text only, small preview, preview etc.). 

[Giulio Pengo]

Hi Rebekka, thanks for your answer! I actually didn't think about looking for a generic "link element" and searched for pages related elements. It's probably why I never found it! That is handy and solves my problem for sure. Thanks again :)