Link template
Asked by edwin:

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How do I share a template with a link?
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Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Edwin,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to meet you.

It's not possible to share a template with a link. If you need someone to edit a specific template, then you will want to tell them the name of the template and where it's located (i.e. which space, or if it's a global template.)

If you want users to create a specific template, you can use the [Create from Template Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/create-from-template-macro-724765187.html) in a page.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Dan Crosby
body: [@Sam Lucas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5105690) I just created a new template and the team that I want to use this is completely non technical. If I can't give them a link that will immediately start a new document based on that template, then I can almost guarantee that they will not use Confluence.


author: Suzanne Kafantaris
body: Atlassian has filled our Confluence with third-party templates that we never use because we can't direct people to them from wiki text. I can't believe I have to write instructions into a wiki page telling people how to go find a template for their documentation instead of just *linking to the danged template*. I get that you want to use an instance instead of the source template (which is, pointlessly, linkable). So how about letting me create a template with a button on the page that lets the user make a quick new copy, so I can at least link to the instance?


author: Dan Crosby
body: Worse yet, because there once was a workaround for doing this as noted by [@Austin G](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5221834), Confluence admin's who desire this capability are likely to stumble across old documentation on the Internet and fruitlessly waste a couple hours experimenting with dozens of URL combinations, and wondering what they are doing wrong, and never quite knowing if it is their failure or a true Confluence restriction.


author: Austin G
body: [@Sam Lucas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5105690) it means that you can get a hyperlink to a specific article after you've created it, but there is no way to create that new article using a template by simply clicking a hyperlink.   

The "create from template" macro works great from within confluence... But it is limited to within confluence. There used to be a hack way of doing this by using a url template i.e. https://\[confluence\]/pages/createpage-entervariables.action?templateId=123456789\&spaceKey=\[spaceID\]\&title=GPYYNNNN\&newSpaceKey=\[spaceKey\].

Being able to link from outside sources (say a workflow in slack) lowers the barrier to entry for creating new content pages for the "less technical" folk as [@Dan Crosby](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5085448) pointed out.


author: Nikhil Owalekar
body: [@Dan Crosby](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5085448) A couple of hours? More like a couple of weeks! I have been banging my head against a wall since the create-new-page / link-to-an-existing-page stopped working a couple of months ago. I was a bit relieved to see that it's not just me who tried countless combinations of query parameters, for which I could not find any documentation anywhere ?

I wasn't even using a template. I was just trying to create a new page under a parent page. And now the createpage.action always takes me to a new blank page, even if the page with that name already exists under the parent page. SMH

At this point I'm seriously considering moving the runbooks outside of Confluence.


author: Austin G
body: I had it implemented and working for awhile. I recently found that there's an error in the redirect though... something gets tied up between the hyperlink URL and the creation of a new page using the template. Errors out and then creates a generic page instead.


author: Dan Crosby
body: All I can say is that I wasted a couple of hours trying to implement those suggestions that I found, and I am not aware of anyone else having success on this lately.


author: Dan Crosby
body: For someone reasonably technical already using Confluence I agree. For non technical users who need extra motivation just to go looking for a button, it can be the difference in whether or not a technology actually gets utilized.


author: Dung L
body: The "Create from template" macro will do exactly what is requested here. There's going to be a button instead of a link When clicked will create the a new page from the specified template. The only obstacle is having to specified the templet in the macro instead of just pasting a link.


author: Sam Lucas
body: Hi [@Suzanne Kafantaris](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4874093) ! Great feedback here! I am the new Templates lead and excited to dig into our wonderful community feedback!

* Have you explored using the Create From Template Macro? This way, you can add a button to your pages that lets a user immediately create a new page with your defined template of choice!
* Can you help me understand what "I get that you want to use an instance instead of the source template (which is, pointlessly, linkable)" means? I am really curious here.

Thank you so much for your time! I see that sharing templates is very important to our users.


author: Rory Partalis
body: Agreed. Too many templates and not easy to direct people to the right template to use. Would be nice if they could be linked somehow.


author: Jules
body: Ditto


author: Sarah
body: Checking in to see if this is still the case or if there is now a way to do this?


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