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Add Custom Button to Copy Permalink/Shortcode in Atlassian Confluence to top of Every Page

Atlassian Confluence JavaScript

⁠|Add Custom Button to Copy Permalink/Shortcode in Atlassian Confluence to top of Every Page 

Whenever a page in Atlassian Confluence is moved or renamed, its canonical URL is updated.  This can quickly lead to broken links after a change has been made.  To solve this issue, Atlassian Confluence has paired each Confluence Page with a permalink (aka shortlink) which will always stay the same - even after a page has been renamed or moved.  For instance, the following canonical URL is (at the time of writing this) associated with this shortlink:

⁠https://support.member.buzz/display/organizers/Custom+Domains

https://support.member.buzz/x/egEi 

However, getting to this link can be buried under several dropdowns, and, if you have a public facing Confluence Space like we have with Member.buzz Support, it can be difficult to have something visible to visitors.

⁠To solve this, we wrote a little JavaScript that is included in the HTML of our Confluence Pages:

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Most of this script should work for most instances - the one part that you may want to change is the $("#page-metadata-banner .banner") selector - this works for our theme (provided by Refined), but you will want to find some element to add your new button to on your page.  Here is the result:

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⁠Comment below if you have found any other creative solutions to this problem!

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