Comments on: Confluence links to create pages from templates

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:21 +0000

Another possibility, which gives you similar (but not exactly the same) functionality is to go to Confluence’s Administration page, Plugin Repository, enable Linking Plugin & Scaffolding Plugin (Linking Plugin seems to require Scaffolding). Then you can create a link in your Confluence page where when a user clicks on it they go immediately to page creation using a template you specify. For example:
Click here to create a new {link-page:name=Some Title XXY |template=Your Custom Template|allowRename=true|parent=My Reports}page from some template{link-page}

Explanation:
link-page - is the macro from Linking plugin
name - this will be put in the page title, which the user can edit during the page creation
template - name of the template you want to use; space in name ok
allowRename - user can rename title during page creation
parent - parent page’s name for the newly created page. I think this must be pre-existing but am not sure. Spaces ok.
The big disadvantage is that you have to first fill in template fields and click the “insert variables” before you get to the screen where you can edit the title and any other non-field parts and save the page.
I hope that’s useful to somebody; was a bit confusing to figure out the syntax since it’s poorly documented.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:21 +0000

By: Matt Doar

Matt Doar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:34:15 +0000

Nice work, thanks for writing it up.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:00:09 +0000

Hi Yancy, yes it can be quicker to do it that way, but as you say, it’s getting them to do that… in certain circumstances you want a nice obvious “add a blah page here” type links, to make it super simple for people.

By: Yancy

Yancy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:07:29 +0000

Great work!

It seems that you might have missed an obvious item though. You can choose a template on the ‘Add Page’ screen, just above the markup editor. So four steps with certain permissions required becomes two steps with general permissions. Of course, you’d have to get them to make that second step
Cheers!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:11:25 +0000

Hi John. I’ll drop you an email with my IM details, and perhaps we can discuss this there? In the meantime:

You’ll need the following settings on the User Macro: untick “Macro has a body”, and set “Output” to “Macro generates Wiki markup”.

I’ve added some extra info in the blog post about using a User Macro to include the necessary Javascript. (It’s a bit long to paste into a comment.)

Has that clarified anything?

By: john

john — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:36:00 +0000

i’m really quite new to all this confluence stuff, so i’ve still got issues understanding this. Putting just your compoundmenu text into a user macro (with no wrapping) e.g. called quicktemplate, and then putting the “{quicktemplate}” into a page just echos the code above, and putting it into a menu structure doesnt appear, so do i need to wrap the code with some rendering code?
The next thing I dont understand is how to link the javascript into the document ready event…

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:13:42 +0000

Hi John, Thanks for your leaving a comment. I use a separate User Macro to add in links to external Javascript files. The Javascript function initCreatePageButtons() would triggered from a document ready event, which runs (surprise!) when the document is ready. Hope that helps. I’ll do some more editing on the main blog post above to try and make it clearer.

By: john

john — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:18:55 +0000

hi, i’m also doing stuff in confluence, and i can see that you first piece of code goes in the user macro area, but where do you put all that javascript? are they in the same user macro? or a different one? or as html somewhere?

thanks