How to call space home from a macro

[ashan]

Dear forum,

In a user macro, the following line gets me the home page of a space:

<a href="$space.getHomePage().getUrlPath()" class="home">

My question is, this returns the URL as /display/<space-key>/<home page title>. But in my company's docs, we have internally added an extra /wiki part to the URLs. So our URLs read as wiki/display/<space-key>/<page title>. As a result, the macro doesn't work. How can I resolve this issue please?

Thanks

[Steve Goldberg]

If that doesn't work you could always use:

<a href="$req.contextPath/display/$space.Key/">

This will cause Confluence to redirect the user to the homepage of the current space.

[smaida]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for the prompt help! I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems the issue is that $space isn't parsing. Your latest code works with the exception of just printing out $space.Key in the template.

-Shawn

[Steve Goldberg]

OK, my guess is that you can't use that where you're using it (e.g., in a layout) because when it is being rendered it is 'outside' of the space, as it were. This is the case with a number of other APIs.

Perhaps you could create a separate question on this site with more details about your problem so that it's separate from this one. Be sure to post a link here and I'll be sure to stop by and take a look (I don't want to hijack ashan's question).

[smaida]

Thanks Steve. I've created a new post here: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/213041/linking-to-space-home-from-a-decorator

[Nicolas Casel]

Thank you @Steve Goldberg2  ,

Based on your input, I managed to build url for labels

<a id="clickable-label" class="aui-label" href="$req.contextPath/label/$space.key/$label.getName()">$label.getName()</a>

(should it be useful for other people here)

[smaida]

Hello,

I'm trying to use $space.getHomePage().getUrlPath() inside of a velocity template, but it doesn't seem to be parsing. I'm trying to link to the space home page from a template of a custom theme. Any ideas?

<div id="logo">
    <h1><a href="$space.getHomePage().getUrlPath()">Home</a></h1>
</div><!-- /#logo -->

Thanks!

[Steve Goldberg]

$content.getAncestors().get(0) lets you get the most top page in a space, which is usually the homepage. However, that won't render the URL path - I'm sure you can fiddle with it so that it does.

Alternatively, you could use some jQuery to re-write the URL (but it would be better not to have to do that).

[ashan]

Any chance of a reply please? :)