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The Markdown from a URL macro renders Markdown content from URLs or from profiles. Profiles are a means of retrieving information data from other external sources such as databases. To know more about the profiles created in your instance, contact your Confluence administrator. You other applications or even databases. You can read more about profiles from this link.

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Macro Editor LabelDefaultDescriptionMacro Parameter
Profile

Enter a profile name

. Profiles are default parameters provided by the administrator.

. Administrators set up profiles to connect to other applications such as GitHub or GitLab.

Contact your administrator to know more about the profiles used in your instance. To know more about how profiles are configured, refer to this link.

profile
URL to markdown file

Enter the URL of the Markdown file. relative path to the Markdown file(s) to be displayed. If a valid path is entered here, the macro accesses the given location and processes the content accordingly.

A profile comprises a base URL and other credentials that are required to access a specific application. These details point to the actual location where the required Markdown file(s) are available. The contents are then accessed and displayed through the macro.

Note

If an absolute URL is

given

entered here, the macro reads content from the specified URL. If a profile is also specified, the macro ignores the given profile and

the profile is ignored

processes content through the given URL.


url
URL user
Enter the user name for URL access that requires basic authentication.user
URL password
Enter the user password for URL access that requires basic authentication.password
URL connection timeout
Enter time in milliseconds such that URL connections do not timeout before getting data. Use this to increase the access time needed for slow connections. Note that if a zero is given the connection may wait infinitely.timeout
File encodingUTF-8

Specify the encoding for an external file, if different from default system handling.

encoding


Note

It is mandatory to specify either a profile or a URL for this macro.


Info
titleHow profiles and URLs are processed in the macro

Depending on the values provided for the Profile and URL to markdown file parameters, the following process applies:

Is Profile given?

(Y - Yes, N - No)

Is URL to markdown file given?

(Y - Yes, N - No)

Macro behavior
YNAccesses the URL specified in the profile through the pre-configured information.
NYAccesses the URL specified and renders the Markdown content as required.
YYAppends the URL mentioned in the URL to markdown file parameter to the URL configured in the profile. Thus, the macro creates a relative path to the Markdown file. If this path is not valid, a network error message is displayed. To resolve this issue, contact  Contact your Confluence administrator for more informationto know how you can resolve the issue.


Common parameters

The following parameters are available for all the Markdown macros:

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The following example uses an absolute URL in URL to markdown file of the macro settings:

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