why does Create from Template Macro open create dialogue instead of target template? [SOLVED]

Olaf Eichstädt

I start to edit a page, add the Create from Template Macro, configure the macro for one of the templates in the drop down list, save the page, click the button ... and the "Create ..." dialogue appears and asks me to select a template. 

Why would the Macro default to the "Create ..."-dialogue instead of using the template specified in the macros drop down menu?

Short answer as of 2019-11-21: don't use "0" as a space key in CONFLUENCE. 

Olaf Eichstädt

Is that right?
Does this occur with any template or with specific ones?

Your recap sounds about right. I did some digging and found that it sometimes works and sometimes not. And there are some funny things going on that I cannot explain.

I "inspected" working and non working buttons with the following result:

This button works:

<a class="aui-button create-from-template-button conf-macro output-inline" data-space-key="2" href="http://www.OURURL.cn:8090?createDialogSpaceKey=2&amp;createDialogBlueprintId=cd9d173b-2cb7-4324-90f5-a352aa637b2d" data-content-blueprint-id="cd9d173b-2cb7-4324-90f5-a352aa637b2d" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="create-from-template">创建会议记录</a>

This button works:

<a class="aui-button create-from-template-button conf-macro output-inline" data-space-key="office" href="http://www.OURURL.cn:8090?templateId=2293781&amp;spaceKey=office&amp;newSpaceKey=office" data-template-id="2293781" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="create-from-template">Create from template</a>

 This button works:

<a class="aui-button create-from-template-button conf-macro output-inline" data-space-key="office" href="http://www.OURURL.cn:8090?templateId=2293781&amp;spaceKey=office&amp;newSpaceKey=office" data-template-id="2293781" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="create-from-template">Create from template</a>

This button FAILS as described in the original question:

<a class="aui-button create-from-template-button conf-macro output-inline" data-space-key="0" href="http://www.OURURL.cn:8090?templateId=2293781&amp;spaceKey=0&amp;newSpaceKey=0" data-template-id="2293781" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="create-from-template">Create from template</a>

Please note that there are 2 different templates (first example uses standard meeting notes templates), examples 2-4 is a customized template.

I find it suspicious that the only FAILING buttons I could create so far reside in a space with space key="0" (data-space-key="0"). 

Funny things that happen:

(1) if I ask one of the working buttons to open the standard CALENDAR template (the first one in my list), I get a stalling dialogue window (never ending rotating ring indicator) after the first click of the button, and a working calendar dialogue after cancel and the second click on the same button.

(2) I had some buttons ... I believe it was the button on the original meeting index page ... that said it would use the Calendar template when I edited it ... but in fact it opened the meeting notes template. However, I can no longer recreate that. When I create a button myself, I get the "funny" case No 1.