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If you maintain multiple pages in the Canisius Wiki, you need to add a navigation scheme so users can find and move between your pages.  There's two basic ways to do this:

Both are discussed in this video, and in the step-by-step tutorials below

00:00 Do Not Rely on the SideBar Menu

01:21 Children Display Macro 

03:49 Adding Internal Links Manually

06:38 Add "Back" Links to Wiki Pages

Children Display Macro

This gadget lists any child pages of the pages on which it is posted. It is useful for the home page for each space, as well as parent pages for offices.  

Two great things about this macro:

  1. It updates automatically.  If I create another page, it appears in the Macro’s published list without my intervention.
  2. It only shows pages as clickable links if the particular visitor has permission to see that child page.  So if a page is only visible to my team, other visitors won’t see it in the list generated by this macro.


Add the Children Display Macro to the parent page for your office or department to list any child pages you have associated with that parent page.  To do so, on your parent page, click Edit to open the editor.  Place your cursor where you want the macro to operate.  Type an open curley brace: {  Once you do, confluence will open a code editor:

Just after the curley brace, type in Children Display.  Confluence will make this available on the list (before you finish typing, probably.)  Press Enter or click it on the menu.  Once it's installed, it will look like this in your editor:

Now it's ready to operate.  You can click on it to edit it, but by default it will list your child pages.  Simply click the blue Update button in the lower right, to publish your page.  On the published page, you should see that the macro box is replaced with a list of your child pages.  

Manually Created Links

To add a link to a Confluence page, click Edit to open that page's editor.  Then, click the chain-link or "Insert Link" icon on the toolbar.  In the resulting dialog, you can choose Recently Viewed to see choose pages you were just on, or can click Search to search by the page's title.  Once you choose a page, Confluence will set up the link.  Click the blue Insert button in the lower right to add the link.  




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