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-rw-r--r--changelogs/unreleased/feature-plantuml-restructured-text.yml5
-rw-r--r--doc/administration/integration/plantuml.md11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/feature-plantuml-restructured-text.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/feature-plantuml-restructured-text.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b885029f589
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/feature-plantuml-restructured-text.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Add documentation for PlantUML in reStructuredText
+merge_request: 13900
+author: Markus Koller
+type: other
diff --git a/doc/administration/integration/plantuml.md b/doc/administration/integration/plantuml.md
index b21817c1fd3..652ca9cf454 100644
--- a/doc/administration/integration/plantuml.md
+++ b/doc/administration/integration/plantuml.md
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ And in Markdown using fenced code blocks:
Alice -> Bob : Go Away
```
+And in reStructuredText using a directive:
+
+```
+.. plantuml::
+
+ Bob -> Alice: hello
+ Alice -> Bob: Go Away
+```
+
The above blocks will be converted to an HTML img tag with source pointing to the
PlantUML instance. If the PlantUML server is correctly configured, this should
render a nice diagram instead of the block:
@@ -94,4 +103,4 @@ Some parameters can be added to the AsciiDoc block definition:
Markdown does not support any parameters and will always use PNG format.
-[ce-8537]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/8537 \ No newline at end of file
+[ce-8537]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/8537