An ongoing list of useful things you can do in Confluence!
CONTENTS
Embedding Files From Google Drive
Paste your link
Change to fully embedded preview
This type of preview is fully interactable (you can edit the embedded doc within the page) and you can also click the blue text at the top to directly open google drive!
We used to recommend the “Widget Connector” but this is no longer the best. As Confluence updates this may change again, but for now the above is the best option.
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
Deep Linking to Slack
THIS NO LONGER WORKS. Confluence update broke it. We will see if it ever gets fixed…
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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