How do you recover the body of a macro that has been removed from Confluence

[Bob Swift]

With wiki, you could easily recover the macro body or rename the macro easily if the macro was removed or renamed (user macro). Now it just shows an unknown macro image with no body text. This is not good. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to get the body text back or rename the macro. Is going to storage format view and cut and paste the only alternative?

[CharlesH · Accepted solution]

Hi Bob,

You could create a dummy user macro of the same name. It needn't take any parameters, but this should allow you to see the body that was previously entered. I think I've done this in the past, mainly to degrade gracefully to avoid those nasty "unknown macro" messages appearing in the page.

Regards,

Charles

[Bob Swift]

Yes, that is a workaround for download Confluence, but not OnDemand.

[Bob Swift]

Here is a way that covers OnDemand as well as download. Example 2: Renaming a macro

[Bob Swift]

Even though there are workarounds listed below, the Confluence editor should implement something much easier to cover this.