An ongoing list of useful things you can do in Confluence!
Deep Linking to Slack
Slack allows for linking to its application and even specific parts within the app via a specially formatted link. Their full documentation of this feature is here: Deep Linking
Linking to the NER Workspace
The general format:
slack://open?team={TEAM_ID}
Plugging in our workspace/team ID:
slack://open?team=T7MHAQ5TL
Our team ID will always be T7MHAQ5TL
Linking to a Channel
The general format:
slack://channel?team={TEAM_ID}&id={CHANNEL_ID}
Using #electrical as an example:
slack://channel?team=T7MHAQ5TL&id={CHANNEL_ID}
Finding a channel ID
Desktop App
Click the channel name for more details
Scroll to the bottom for the ID
In-Browser
Just look at the URL!
Your team ID starts with a T and your channel ID starts with a C
Mobile App
Long press the channel and copy link
The channel ID can be found as described above
Linking to a Person’s DMs
The general format:
slack://user?team={TEAM_ID}&id={USER_ID}
Using Matt as an example:
slack://user?team=T7MHAQ5TL&id=UNCFTKUAV
User IDs always start with a U
Finding a user ID
Desktop-App & Browser
Open Profile of the user
Click the button with 3 dots
Copy member ID
Mobile App
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Using Iframes
Confluence has awesome widgets to integrate nearly anything cleanly into a Confluence page (you can find these via inline / commands or the + at the top of the editing window). Sometimes these cannot handle everything however.
Iframes are a common tool used in web development to insert a window from one website into a “mini-browser” view of another. These can be used in Confluence to open just about any website when cleaner integrations don’t work.
This is a lot closer to editing the page in raw HTML/CSS, so do note it will look uglier and should be avoided when possible
One example of needing to use Iframes is for Google Calendar previews! Check out Calendars