Hi everyone,

Thank you for previously raising this bug and bringing it to our attention.

Within our company roadmap and work capacity, we try to address or review each bug request but admit that not each one will be resolved. To continue the culture of being honest and open, we are closing this bug to focus on our upcoming roadmap for all Confluence users.

As we continue to roll out features we do look at requests made by our users and if you feel like this bug is still impacting your team please let us know.

Thank you again for providing valuable feedback to our team!

I found a situation where the workaround doesn't work: if I want to place a link on an image. I can paste in an image with a link and everything looks fine; however, after saving the template and reopening it, the link is gone.

The workaround works only if you do [Lind description|<linkName>] in your template and not if you insert a link from the menu. (thought people would be interested to know this detail)

For RL and Jon: You made comments about SharePoint doing much better. Can you elaborate on this? As far as I've seen, the SharePoint wiki features aren't very good. We just upgraded to the latest Office 365 SharePoint and I played around with the wiki features and it doesn't seem like much has improved. It still seems far easier for me to create content quickly in Confluence. Now if I want to store Microsoft Office documents, SharePoint handles that better than Confluence. There are a bunch of other features in SharePoint, including wiki, but Microsoft has mostly ignored them, so much that they don't really seem that usable. I'm curious what you're finding in SharePoint. Maybe I'm missing something?

This is disappointing to see this bug had been open for 4 years...  For those not aware there is a workaround, it looks ugly when updating the template but works otherwise. Thank you to the person who posted the link to this open bug.  https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/269807/cannot-seem-to-create-a-template-with-anchors-and-internal-page-links-link

Thats pretty awful when sharepoint can do anything...Wow Atlassian fix this now I do not want to go to sharepoint.

Since it is unassigned, i don't think any of the Atlassian support ever watches or gets notified for this issue. I did already but no use.

Atlassian do not create templates so this is only an edge case for them.  And for all others go for other products. MS Sharepoint is doing far better than this.

I am about to ask all 200 of the users in our instance vote and watch this item, would anyone else that would like this fixed consider doing the same?

Possibly if we can get all current 84 watchers to comment on this post it will get some increased visibility. I too am concerned this issue has been flagged as "edge case" as it obviously impacts all cloud users and there is no viable workaround. Please consider fixing this issue Atlassian!

I voted for this ticket the first time about 2 years ago. We still need this features: please prioritize this.