How to add navigation macro in Confluence page templates

Problem

• Link the pages with related content (e.g. meeting notes, release notes, guides and tutorials), so the user can navigate back and forth easily.

Proposed Solution

• Add CQL Navigation Macro in the Confluence page template

• When you create a page using this template, the macro will add the previous and next button

Benefits

• Users will be able to read the content (meeting minutes, deployment plans, etc) chronologically with a single click

  • The user can easily recap what happened during the previous meeting

  • The users can update the agenda/notes for the next meeting

• Direct the users through the content (e.g. user guides, tutorials or training materials) topic by topic

• There is no need to edit the pages to add the links in manually

Video Guide

Example

The image below shows is a page template for Meeting notes Blueprint, and we added the CQL Navigation Macro at the top.

To edit the Meeting notes Blueprint, click Space tools > Content Tools > Meeting notes > Edit

The CQL Navigation Macro is configured as follows:

Now, when you are creating a page using this template, click on the previous and next buttons will take you to another meeting notes page.

To create a page from template, click … in the Confluence header > select Meeting notes