Simple macro to insert image from remote server

[Сергей Рябенко]

Hello, I want to create a macro to list and insert selected image from my server into confluence page. I can do some Java coding, especially with examples provided, but currently I stuck looking for right examples.

My questions are: 

- How do I remove left panel in macro dialog?

- Can I make dialog content an iframe?

- How do I insert selected image (considering image and "Insert" button are just HTML inside dialog)?

Thanks for help in advance.

[Сергей Рябенко]

Hi Zak,

thanks for your reply, I'll check this.

[Zak Laughton]

Hi Сергей!

I understand you'd like to create a user macro that lets users select from a group of images and insert it onto a Confluence page.

To answer your specific questions:

• How do I remove left panel in macro dialog?
  I don't believe this is possible. The left panel in the dialog for the macro will always be present, even with no parameters specified.
• Can I make dialog content an iframe?
  There's not a way I'm aware of to use an iframe in the macro dialogue.
• How do I insert selected image (considering image and "Insert" button are just HTML inside dialog)?
  I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here with the image and insert button. Hopefully though, the example below might clear some things up.

I created this quick user macro that lets a user choose from a list of image files and show the image on the page. You can replace the imgur address with a path to your server, and the file names with actual files, and you will have a list of files to insert in a macro in Confluence:

## Macro title: Remote image list
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: No macro body
## @param filename:title=Image|type=enum|enumValues=LRoLTlK.jpg,4AiXzf8.jpg,Xc1QTk8.jpg

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/$paramfilename">

More helpful examples can be seen at the bottom of Writing User Macros and User Macro Template Syntax.