Description
This article illustrates the process of linking Confluence to another app via Application Links (sometimes called "app links" or AppLinks). Markdown-url macro will prompt you to authorise the app, on the first instance of rendering Markdown content in the macro. Creating AppLinks has many advantages such as:
- Security: password is required only at the time of creating an AppLink.
- Usability: since an AppLink is created through one-time authentication of credentials, you do not have to change your password frequently.
- Works seamlessly across the platform: admins have to configure AppLinks only once for permitted users to access the app.
Before you begin:
- To link Confluence to another app, you should be an administrator on both the instances of the app.
- Atlassian recommends that you use OAuth with impersonation authentication if you check the option The servers have the same set of users, at the time of linking.
- You will need the URL of the application you want to link to Confluence.
Steps
- Refer to the steps mentioned in the Confluence support page on Application Links. Once the linking is successful, you will see the Connected status in green.
- You can directly enter the complete URL in the Macro URL parameter.
