Does Confluence Have Built In Forms?

[Cameron Minihan]

Hi,

At my work we use confluence for a variety of different things but the main one if that we make central pages for information on the different applications we have, sort of like a hub where someone would go to find documentation etc.

However we would like to make it so that when a developer makes a change to that application, they have to enter this information to inform others what has happened. Ideally we would like a form where they click a button or link, enter the information such as date, free text field of whats happened and a few other mandatory fields and then submit this and it will show somewhere on the page (haven't thought this far ahead as I'm not sure if its possible yet).

So my question is, as a person with basic access (i dont manage anything technical, i am just a user with access to edit any page and space i want) is this possible or is there a different way i can go about it? I wont be able to spend money and im not sure about plugins either, so best to stay away from those. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Confluence, at its heart, is a wiki.  The idea of a wiki is "write what you need to, and be instantly published"  (then add a shed-load of other functions and clever stuff, but let's keep it simple for authors and readers)

Forms are not a fit for that idea.

But there are a lot of apps that do add forms in various ways.  Some are fully-formed "list of fields to fill in" (and make me want to say "that should be in an issue tracker, not an authoring system"), and the other end of the scale are thing that pop something up and do little more than drop it on to an edit page.

TLDR: to do "forms" well, you will need an app.  (But they do work well when you get the right one for you)

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

In my opinion Confluence nowadays is much more than just a wiki. It is the company's heart when you use it right.

And "forms" apps do compliment and extend Confluence functionality quite well.

(disclaimer: we do develop and support our forms app, called ConfiForms)