Status variable disappears after page is created from Template
I've developed a custom template using the "/var" option to create a dropdown "status" menu.
spaces have been removed from the title and the dropdown list. No special characters are used.
The status variable remains visible until a page is created from the template
Please see screenshots attached (starting in the template builder and moving through the pages created from the promoted template)
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That's right. And if you want something more advanced than the 5 global statuses Confluence Cloud offers built-in, try a more flexible content lifecycle management solution, like Better Content Archiving for Confluence.
Here is a comprehensive article on how to set the Confluence page status with Better Content Archiving >>
With this app, you can:
- automatically set each page to a status based on a CQL query
- view the page status in the top of each page
- view a number-of-pages-per-status report for a space or for the whole site
- set expiration date, archiving date, owner and other content lifecycle metadata
- create custom dashboards from statuses
- search for pages with CQL by status, space, labels, etc.
- send custom notification emails (reminders, digests, reports, etc.) based on status
- run archive/delete automations based on status
- etc.
(Please note that Better Content Archiving is a free/paid and supported app and I'm part of the team developing it.)
Hello @Lindsey Smith !
Thank you for your question, and welcome to the Atlassian Community! Based on your needs and use case, I’d like to introduce our Handy Macros for Confluence app, which can be a good fit. It is a bundle of different macros, including interactive statuses and dates, which can also be put into a template.
- Create unlimited customized status sets.
- Switch Handy Status and Handy Date directly in the view mode, including the Confluence Page Status, which can also be an alternative.
- Connect statuses to page labels for quick search
- Ensure status and date consistency across Confluence tables and pages
- Quickly update the Page Properties Reports
Please see examples below.
We also have a blog post covering this and other Confluence tips and tricks with interactive statuses. Perhaps it can be helpful for you as well. You can try the Handy Macros for Confluence app on the Atlassian Marketplace for free to see if it works for you. Our support is always happy to assist with any concerns.
Have a lovely day!
Kind regards,
Anastasia
@Lindsey Smith As far as I know, the variables you add in a template are for people to set when they create a page using that template. They are no longer available once the page is created.
It seems like you want to add a dropdown list within the content of the page where someone can select a status from the list. You cannot do this natively in Confluence, but there are plug-ins you can use for this (see the Marketplace).
Are these items for display only or will you need to search and do other actions based on the selection? For example, I notice in your screenshot above, you only have 3 possible statuses. If you are using them just as a visual indicator, you could try creating checkboxes for each status (you can format the label text if you want) that might look something like this:
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