Using the SharePoint Link Macro (v 1.6)

Owned by Almuth Boehme [Communardo]
Aug 19, 2016
2 min read

You can use the SharePoint Link macro {sp-link} to put a link on a Confluence wiki page, pointing to an Office document hosted on your SharePoint server. When someone clicks the link, the document will be opened in the appropriate Microsoft Office application.

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Usage

The SharePoint Link Macro may be inserted using the 'Insert SharePoint Document Link' dialog.

To insert the SharePoint Link macro into a page,

  1. Go to the Confluence page or blog post where you want to display the SharePoint link.
  2. Click the 'Edit' button. The page or blog post opens in edit mode.
  3. Click the Macro Browser icon  on the toolbar.
  4. The macro browser window opens. Find the 'SharePoint Document Link' macro:
    • Scroll through the list of macros, or
    • Start typing the macro name into the search box at the top right of the macro browser window. Macros with a matching name will appear in the main pane.
  5. Select the SharePoint site where the document is stored.
  6. Search for the name of the SharePoint document by entering a search query in the Search field and then clicking the 'Search' button.
  7. Select the document you wish to insert from the list of results
  8. Click 'Insert' to add the macro to the page.

 

Diagram: The Insert SharePoint Document Link dialog

Office Integration

If you are using Microsoft Office integrated with SharePoint, the {sp-link} macro will make use of this integration. When someone clicks on the link created by the macro, it integrates with MS Office in the same way as SharePoint. You can check documents in and out of SharePoint and edit the document from within the Office application.

In order for the Office integration to work, you must be using Internet Explorer as the browser when accessing the Confluence page.

Diagram: Office integration with the SharePoint Link macro

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