This page last changed on Apr 01, 2005 by vidya.

What Are Shortcut Links?

Shortcut links are defined by the Confluence administrator. They are a quick way to create links to resources that are frequently referenced from Confluence. Administrators can maintain shortcuts from the "Shortcut Links" link in the administrative console.

For example, here are the shortcuts currently defined on http://confluence.atlassian.com:

For the examples I give below to work, these shortcuts must be configured on your Confluence server. If they aren't, ask your server administrator to add them.

How To Use Shortcut Links

Easy. You just specify in the link what should go on the end of the shortcut URL, followed by an at-sign and the name of the shortcut. Shortcut names are case-insensitive. So, for example:

Shortcut Example Resulting URL Demonstration
JIRA issue [CONF-1000@JIRA] http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=CONF-1000 CONF-1000
JIRA search [CONF open bugs@JIRA] http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=CONF+open+bugs CONF open bugs
Google Search [Atlassian Confluence@Google] http://www.google.com/search?q=Atlassian+Confluence Atlassian Confluence@Google

Shortcut links can have titles just like any other link:

Shortcut Example Resulting URL Demonstration
Internet Movie Database [Fight Club|tt0137523@IMDB] http://us.imdb.com/Title?tt0137523 Fight Club
Google Cache [Cached Homepage|www.atlassian.com@cache] http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.atlassian.com Cached Homepage

Limitations

Currently, you can only have shortcuts append things to the end of URLs. We're planning on removing this limitation in future versions of Confluence.


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Shortcuts are nice, but currently there is no way to see what ones are defined and available to use unless you are an administrator. Where are these stored in the database? I can expose them in a page so users can see them if I can query them.

Posted by bob.swift@lakeviewtech.com at Jan 25, 2006 13:20

Yeah, this is true.

Posted by david@randombits.org at Jan 25, 2006 15:33

We would like to create shortcuts to some of our common CamelCase works.

 e.g. VentureSource

Any page that has this word should automatically link to a space/link e.g. [VentureSource:Home].

 Is this possible?

Posted by patelh at Jan 31, 2006 09:48

You can enable CamelCase throughout Confluence as follows:

  • Enter the Administration Console (through Administration link at top of dashboard)
  • Select General Configuration, then click edit button that appears at bottom of display
  • Turn on CamelCase links

Note, however, that such links would only work within the current space. I don't know if there is any way to have them link elsewhere.

You could always use the normal notation, eg:

Fore more details see [VentureSource|VentureSource:Home|Venture Source].

Full details of the various linking options can be seen in the Wiki Notation Guide.

Posted by gfraser at Jan 31, 2006 14:13
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