Can no longer create in-page anchor links in templates?

[David Corlette]

Seems like when they "simplified" the editor in Confluence, Atlassian has broken some functionality - for example, it now seems impossible to create in-page anchor links within a template.

Let's say I have a template, and somewhere in the middle of it I have a complex term that is defined in an appendix towards the bottom of the page. Seems pretty simple, I would just create an anchor at the place where I define the term, and then insert a link of the form #anchor as a superscript on the complex term.

- But Atlassian has removed the Anchor macro

- But we can't use a heading anchor, which has the form #pagename-heading (because the page name isn't known yet, in a template)

So... out of luck?

Doesn't it seem that by designing for the lowest common denominator, Atlassian has made more advanced work much harder or even impossible?

[Rob Bunten]

Page templates were horribly broken in the 'new' editor (January, wasn't it?). I was just searching to see how broken when I came across this. A real shame - they were powerful. I don't know how many hours I'm going to waste trying to find how much functionality I need to remove before I get one working again.

So - sorry if this doesn't actually answer your question, but I feel your pain.