Due to an issue with dependency injection in the Information Systems Extension for the projectdoc Toolbox the Autoconverter for URLs failed to do its job. This issue is fixed with version 3.0.1 of the Information Systems Extension.
Also note that the extension checks the Confluence Whitelist for accessing remote resources. This had not been mentioned in the documentation. In case the Whitelist is used, URLs to remote systems need to be added to that list for the Autoconverter to run. The Autoconverter needs to fetch the title of the page the link refers to to render this information as the label. Otherwise there is not much benefit to autoconvert the URL to a macro in case for accessing public resources on the internet - like articles on Wikipedia.
On Autoconvert Information System URIs the configuration to access articles on Wikipedia is shown.
Since the Confluence Whitelist restricts access to remote servers. URLs that are not listed in the Whitelist cannot be accessed from the Autoconvert code. Therefore all URLs configured for the projectdoc Autoconvert need also be added to the Whitelist.
Configuring the Whitelist, as part of the Confluence documentation by Atlassian, shows how to allow access to remote servers.
For the projectdoc Autoconvert only access to the remote system is required. The remote system does not access the Confluence server for this feature.
When pasting an URL to a Wikipedia article, the autoconverter will create a macro for the link.
The rendered macro will show the title of the article as its label instead of the URL.
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for the projectdoc Toolbox.
The tip shows how to control rending by the use of document properties, see as variables in your documentation.
