`quarto publish confluence` fails to find, or correctly link parent pages.

[jtlandis]

Bug description

I created a git repository to reproduce this issue. Please clone this git repo for a reprex.

It seems that sub pages cannot reference parent pages accurately with the [text](PATH/To/QMD) syntax specifically for quarto publish confluence and when using ../File.qmd or /file.qmd.

It should be noted that this syntax works perfectly when viewing the rendered html pages from RStudio, but otherwise not.

Description of the Project structure

├── index.qmd
├── _quarto.yml
├── README.md
├── reports
│ ├── 2022-01.qmd
│ └── 2022-03.qmd
└── section.qmd

Files and their links:

1. index.qmd contains 4 links: one link to each of the sub pages and then 2 links to section.qmd.
   • Both of the table links work on confluence 👍
   • [go to section](section.qmd#Challenges and Opportunities) links to the page but not the section 👎 .
   • When copying the link from confluence and manually pasting it (the second link), the following works:
     [New syntax](section.qmd#Challenges-and-Opportunities%5BinlineExtension%5D)
2. 2022-01.qmd contains 2 links, both trying to reference the top level index.qmd except one using ../index.qmd and the other using /index.qmd. 👎 Does not work but for different reasons.
   • In the ../index.qmd syntax, the link is never created.
   • In the /index.qmd syntax, A link is created but it redirects to the root uri on confluence, i.e. if your confluence site was named site.atlassian.net then /index.qmd syntax creates a link that redirects to https://site.atlassian.net/index.qmd
3. 2022-03.qmd contains only 1 link, still using ../index.qmd syntax except this file doesn't try and specify a section to jump to, still doesn't work 👎

Steps to reproduce

git@github.com:jtlandis/quarto-confluence-link.git
cd quarto-confluence-link
quarto publish confluence

Expected behavior

No response

Actual behavior

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Your environment

• IDE: RStudio
• OS: RHEL8
• Confluence: Cloud

Quarto check output

quarto check


[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.1: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.55.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.3.450
      Path: /usr/local/quarto-1.3.450/bin

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.6.8
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.2
      Path: /usr/lib64/R
      LibPaths:
        - /home/justinlandis/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.3
        - /usr/lib64/R/library
        - /usr/share/R/library
      knitr: 1.43
      rmarkdown: 2.23

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[dragonstyle]

I was able to reproduce this and I think we have a decent amount of work to do in the way that we're resolving paths back into links. Beyond the path issues outlined here, I think we should also look closely at how we're splitting / joining paths, whether we are properly supporting ipynb inputs, and any other assumptions about the presence of qmd etc...

Most of the work appears to be confined to confuence-helper.ts#updateLinks(), but I think it would make sense to tackle this post 1.4.

[jtlandis]

Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant to updating links in the parent, but I may have found a similar issue (I havent had the time to create a reproducible example yet).

This is what gather is the issue from a separate project. Attempting to refer to figures relative to one of the sub page .qmd files. In the context of the above repex the issue may look something like the following:

├── index.qmd
├── _quarto.yml
├── README.md
├── reports
├── 2022-01.qmd
├── 2022-03.qmd
└── figures/
└─ fig.png

so within 2022-01.qmd there may be an image embedded like so

![](figures/fig.png)

This file would render fine as standard html or pdf output formats, but when using the quarto publish confluence command, the resulting .xml (within the _site/ directory) paths for the embedded figure cannot be found because it is expecting something from the quarto project root.

i.e., we would see:

<ri:attachment ri:filename="figures/fig.png" />

but in order to find the figure attachment correctly it should be

<ri:attachment ri:filename="reports/figures/fig.png" />

At the moment I have been able to remedy the issue by creating a post-render bash script to correct the paths.

[aronatkins]

I have also encountered problems with relative links and ended up flattening my project so cross-page links would resolve. projects/planning.qmd became projects-planning.qmd, for example.