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Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials

You're reading from   Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials Centralize all your organization's documentation in one place using Confluence. From installation to using add-ons, this is a complete, user-friendly tutorial that assumes virtually no prior knowledge.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689526
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kohler Stefan Kohler
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Shortcut links


Shortcut links provide a quick way of linking to resources that you use often, for example, a link to a Google search. Shortcut links need to be configured by a Confluence Administrator before users can use them.

Creating a shortcut link

If you search for a book on the Packt Publishing website, the URL will look like http://www.packtpub.com/books?keys=. If you create a shortcut for this search with the key packt, every time a user needs to visit the website they can just type [terms@packt] and Confluence will link to http://www.packtpub.com/books?keys=terms.

  1. Browse to the Administration Console (Administration | Confluence Admin).

  2. Select Shortcut Link from the left-hand side menu.

  3. Enter a key for you shortcut value. In our case, we will use packt.

  4. Enter the Expanded Value: http://www.packtpub.com/books?keys=. You can use %s in the URL to specify where the term needs to be inserted. If there is no %s in the URL, the term is put at the end.

  5. Enter a Default Alias. This is the text of...

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