$content.getTitle() is not rendered in user macro

Simone_Avossa

Hello,

I have created a user macro that needs to print the following HTML tag:

## @noparams

<input type="hidden" name="xxx" id="xxx" value="$content.getTitle()" />

The user macro is then rendered in the page via the following expression placed in the Main Decorator of my space layout soon after the <body> tag:

...

<body #onLoadAttr() id="com-atlassian-confluence" class="$!theme.bodyClass $!sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.bodyClass") aui-layout aui-theme-default">
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{myusermacro}") 

...

This is, in theory, okay and I should expect to have the content title printed out as in the value attribute of my <input> tag.

However, for some reasons, the $content.getTitle() expression is not rendered in the HTML and what I get in my page HTML source code is the following output:

...

<body #onLoadAttr() id="com-atlassian-confluence" class="$!theme.bodyClass $!sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.bodyClass") aui-layout aui-theme-default">
<input type="hidden" name="xxx" id="xxx" value="$content.getTitle()" />

...

Instead of:

...

<body #onLoadAttr() id="com-atlassian-confluence" class="$!theme.bodyClass $!sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.bodyClass") aui-layout aui-theme-default">
<input type="hidden" name="xxx" id="xxx" value="My Page Title" />

...

Please, can you help me solve this mystery?

Many thanks!

Bill Bailey

I think your issue has to do with the difference in context. $content.getTitle(), is intended to be used in a page, i.e., the content is the page.

Used in the Main Decorator, there is no content per se. There is probably something like $currentPage.getTitle() that would work. You would have to look through the API docs to find the correct reference.