How to autogenerate the link to an anchor

[Ranjith Ramachandra]

The article https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html says that I need to create an anchor and then do some crazy text maipulation to actually have a link.

Notes about the full URL:

• The page name is repeated in the URL, after the # sign. The second occurrence of the page name is concatenated into a single word, with all spaces removed.
• There is a single dash (hyphen) between the concatenated page name and the anchor name.
• The anchor name in the full URL is concatenated into a single word, with all spaces removed.
• The anchor name is case sensitive.

Is there no easy way? Such as right clicking somewhere and get the link to that.

I am currently looking into the element and finding the ID and using that to make the URL. But this feels like a stupid thing to do.

[Dave O'Brien]

Even better would be improving the create-link dialog to let you pick a page, then choose to show either:

• all the headings on that page to link to, or
• all the anchors on that page to link to

...then the system would build the URL internally so we don't have to mess with it.