how can I retrieve the name of the space i'm in (for a macro)

[le tu]

Hi,

I'm writing a macro and I need it to save the name of the space that the macro was inserted in, can anyone help with this? is there a system variable for the space name?

Thanks,

-lee.

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi Lee,

you get the name of the current space with: $space.getName()

[le tu]

could you please elaborate? when I've added this to my macro it didn't work, here's the relevant part of my code (it's inside of an HTML macro):

<script>
var title;
var url;
var space_name;

var func = function() {
  console.log('func loaded');
  AJS.toInit(function() {
    console.log('toInit loaded');
    AJS.$(document).ready(function() {
      console.log('ready loaded');
      title=AJS.params.pageTitle
      console.log(title);
     
      space_name=$space.getName();
      console.log(space_name);

in the above 2 lines I'm getting the following error:

What am I missing? Should I include somekind of library?..can you please guide me further on how to use the $space in my macro..?
And could you guide me on where to check these kinds of stuff for further times?

Thanks!!!

[Thomas Schlegel]

Ah, you didn't mention that you want to get the space name in javascript. There you get it like this:

AJS.Meta.get('space-name')

To make sure, you get the right name, try an alert first:

alert(AJS.Meta.get('space-name'));

[le tu]

Hey Thomas Thanks a lot!!

How did you know where to find this solution? 

I've looked on google and couldn't reach any useful information...can you please explain how should I find solutions to this kind of questions in the future?...I couldn't find any good documentation for libraries that work with Atlassian or stuff like that...

Thanks,

-Lee

[Thomas Schlegel]

You're welcome, Lee!

How to find a solution? There's no simple answer for this question. I am working as an administrator for 12 years now with Atlassian's products and try to learn from various sources, so experience is an important thing. A great source is this community. You can learn by reading answers to questions you do not even have at the moment just for learning. Here you find answers to a lot of questions, although they are sometimes not so easy to find. Communicating with other users, developers and admins in this community is always a good idea. Don't hesitate, ask your questions. With most questions, there's someone who can help you. And the next time, you already know the answer. And answer other's people questions... I am doing that for years now :-)  

Another great source is Atlassian's developer site:

https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev      

There you find tutorials for developing plugins and a lot of other useful things.

[le tu]

10x:)