Blog from February, 2009

It is often useful to send links to confluence pages via e-mail. It is tempting to copy the page's URL from your browser's address bar, but this has two disadvantages:

• The URL's are often long and will get wrapped and/or corrupted in e-mail messages.
• If you change the title of the page, or move it to a different space, the URL will change.

Much better is to select Tools, Info from the menu bar near the top of the page, and from the info page select the "Tiny Link" which is not subject to either of the problems cited above. For example the "Tiny Link" for this news item is:

http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/x/6oF3Ag

There will be a 3 hour confluence outage on Thursday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 Pacific time, so that both the database and web-server can be moved as part of the seismic retro-fitting in the SLAC computer center.