Collect Team Feedback Directly in Confluence: Survey Macro is Here

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Some team questions sound fairly simple when born in someone’s head.

Who can join the company meet-up?
Which option works best?
Do you have any feedback before we move forward?

But in practise, we’ve seen miracles: some answers end up in a Slack thread, others in the main chat, some as comments on a Confluence page, and some… right before the event starts (Yes, I’ve had a colleague who was always surprised when a team building approach. Like “Oh, really… when, where?”) And there is usually a poll or external survey added to the mix. That’s how a relatively small and fast question becomes a whole activity someone has to chase, organize, and summarize.

That is exactly the kind of everyday friction we wanted to reduce with the new Survey macro in Macro Pack for Confluence.

Ask questions where the context already lives

Confluence is often the place where teams document plans, decisions, project updates, retrospectives, event details, and internal processes. So when a page already contains the context, it makes sense for the questions and answers to live there too.

With the Survey macro, teams can add structured surveys directly to a Confluence page and collect responses without sending people to another tool.

For example, a company meet-up planning page in Confluence can include questions like:

• Can you make it?

• What is your preferred location?

• Workation or vacation?

• Any ideas you want to share?

Instead of gathering answers across multiple channels, the survey becomes part of the page itself.

Build surveys with UI Builder or Markdown

Different teams prefer different ways of working, so the Survey macro supports two creation modes. You can use the UI Builder for a guided, visual setup when you want to create a survey step by step, or use Markdown for a faster, more direct way to structure the survey content. This makes the macro useful for both quick team polls and more detailed internal surveys.

Useful for more than company lunch planning 🤌 🥗

The Survey macro can support many everyday Confluence use cases, such as:

• team feedback
• internal votes
• retrospectives
• planning pages
• process check-ins
• product or documentation feedback
• lightweight decision-making

Sometimes a Confluence page should not only explain the work - it should help move the work forward.

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Marco Pack has more than 21 formatting Confluence macros that help you write better documentation and structure useful pages for your team. See more or try it free on the Atlassian Marketplace.

[Peter_DevSamurai]

Thank you for this article and absolutely helpful macros to try out as well!

[Teodora V _Warsaw Dynamics_]

Thank you @Peter_DevSamurai 🙏 I am curious what number of macros the Macro Pack will reach because our Devs-Unleashed crew is getting wild :D