Is there a way to see a page in a new version?
Asked by NM:

Hi All,

I want to display a message in all pages of my space with a link that jumps to the newer version of the page, without having to add URLs manually.

Is there a way to do this please?

Thanks!  
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Answers:
author: NM
body: For anyone looking into this thread, this is what I have been looking for: **Confluence Space Jump Macro** . See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/space-jump-macro-792499201.html>.


author: NM
body: Exactly! Thank you!!!

I know there's a solution for this. I saw it somewhere a while back but I can't find it now. I think Confluence uses it on their own docs.


author: Doug Swartz
body: Nidesha,

If Rob's suggestion is correct, do you have each version in it's own Confluence space? If you do, you should be able to do a single alteration to the documentation page template in the old version's space to add the message to each page for the old version.

comments: author: NM
body: Rob's question is correct. That's exactly what I am trying to do.

I want a link in each page- something that goes to the same page in the old documentation space, without me having to fill the URL manually. So this should ideally be a plugin kind of thing that automatically reads the old space key or something.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nirdesha,

Unfortunately I don't know of any way to do this automatically. Hopefully the clarification of the question will allow someone else to answer though....

if you find a solution can you post it here for future reference?


author: NM
body: Hi Rob, I found that the SpaceJump macro does the job.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nirdesha,

Glad to hear you found a solution :smile:


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nirdesha,

It sounds like you're using Confluence for documentation and you've got pages for different versions of \[whatever you're documenting\]. So you've got pages for version 1, for example, and when people go to one of the version 1 pages you want an automatic link to the same page for version 2.

Is that correct?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't quite understand the question. When you look at a confluence page, you are always looking at the current version (i.e. "newer"). The url for a page does not change when you edit it and create a newer version.

To look at older versions of a page, you have to be digging through the page history. Which has a link to the current version on it already.

So, I'm not really sure what you are looking for here?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Right, so it's nothing to do with page history or versions.

You are looking for something that can present Confluence pages or spaces as a set of docs directly related to an event such as a software release. I think you need to look at something like "Scroll versions".


author: NM
body: Nic, this is my requirement:

1. I already have multiple spaces for multiple versions of a documentation.
2. Usually, users find the old documentation through a Google search.
3. When the user comes to the old documentation, I want to show them a link that goes as "view the same page in the newer version of the documentation".
4. The link should be generated from a macro/plugin so that I don't have to manually give the URL of the new version.

I explored the "Scroll versions" plugin but since I already have multiple spaces for multiple versions, I don't think that suggestion works. Confluence used to do this through some kind of plugin/macro that they add to the header.


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