Alternative to the old 'Show and Hide' macro?

Question

Is anyone aware of either an alternative macro (or another way of achieving the same result) to the old 'show-and-hide-macro' which used to allow us to set a date as the condition?

The use case is quite simple: Needing to keep a block of text on a page within product documentation hidden until a certain date, when it will automatically show. Or alternatively, hide a block of content starting on a certain date.

We are upgrading from 5.10 server and onto Cloud.

The Visibility plug-in contains show-if/hide-if, but not 'show-and-hide'.

thanks!

Shannon S · Answer

Helen,

I'm not aware of any other add-ons that could support that behavior, but I've tagged your question so that it will also appear on the Marketplace Collection.

That way, if anyone knows of a solution, they can let you know.

Regards,

Shannon

Helen Gosper · Answer

Hi Shannon, thanks for replying and sorry it's taken me so long to reply myself.

It was a third-party plug-in, called 'shownhide' I believe and it showed content according to a date range.  Unfortunately I can't recall the developer and no longer have access to the old server instance to look for it.

It worked like this:

{shownhide:from=2010-01-12|to=2010-01-24}

The cloud version of Visibility for Confluence contains some conditional hiding of content (eg showif). However, I really need something that will allow me to add content to a page that will automatically display on a certain date. This is what shownhide previously did.

Shannon S · Answer

Hello Helen,

Thank you for contacting us! Happy to help you track down a solution for your team.

I apologize but I am really not familiar with the show-and-hide-macro or the Visibility plugin.

Could you tell me, was this a 3rd party add-on? The add-on Visibility for Confluence sounds familiar to what you are describing. Since you mentioned you are migrating from Confluence Server 5.10 to Cloud, perhaps this could work for you?

Regards,

Shannon