Formatting pages

[Jenny Gallagher]

Community, how can I insert an info panel (or other non-numbered content) inside a numbered list? Basically I want to interrupt the numbered list, then continue with numbering. 
So,

1.

2.

3. 

• Note: a pop-up menu will appear.

4.

5. 

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Jenny Gallagher welcome to the Atlassian Community!

What you are looking to do is called 'nesting'. - seamlessly placing one object inside another. In this case, an info panel inside of a numbered list.

Currently this is not available on Confluence Cloud - but there has been a lot of research going into making it happen, so hopefully you'll be able to accomplish this sometime in the near future.

[Jenny Gallagher]

Thanks Andy. I've seen it done on other pages, but they probably did manual numbering. I don't have full access to editing, so I can't see behind the scenes—yet.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Hi, @Jenny Gallagher As a (not great) workaround, I use emojis to number my steps. This allows me to:

1. Insert panel macros and images between steps (though they can't be indented).
2. Indent paragraphs under steps (substeps, explanatory paragraphs, bulleted paragraphs that may also use emojis).
3. Incorporate my company color palette—I created and uploaded my own custom emojis to use.

[Jenny Gallagher]

Thank you Barabara, what a creative solution. Do you have an image you can share? I wonder how this renders. 

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Jenny Gallagher I hope the image below helps. I tried to point out a couple of the issues with this method with the callouts.

[Jenny Gallagher]

Thanks! How did you replace the number/letter/bullet with an emoji?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

It is not a list. It is just a regular paragraph, where I insert an emoji at the beginning of the line. I made sure all my number emojis are the same width, with the number starting at the left side and some white space on the right, so the text of each paragraph lines up and I am covered in case I need to emojis with double digits.

[Jenny Gallagher]

Gotcha!