How can I add in an interactive drop down menu on a page?
These tools and functionalities should be native in Confluence and not forcing us to pay another licence just install an app for a single purpose aka "dropdown selection"
Hi @Derek Magnuson
It depends what you mean by interactive drop-down menu - there's two options here:
You haven't mentioned a hosting type so this is based on Cloud - although I'm pretty sure it's quite similar across Server/DC.
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Templates:
You can add custom templates - like the ones offered during creation such as Blank Page or Blog Post. In templates, you can have an interactive list where you choose the options before the page creates, and then the options chosen form part of the data on that page.
To be clear, the drop-down is only available here during creation - not after.
To create a template like this you'll need to be a Space Admin and then:
^ When creating a page with this template the drop-down fields will be available to choose options for during creation.
Pages:
On pages themselves, having a drop-down field isn't possible natively. You could try an app - such as Easy Dropdown - or an alternative I've seen users try in the past is:
^ This isn't a drop-down list, but it's an alternative option!
Ste
Hello @Derek Magnuson
You can create dropdown menus in Confluence with Handy Status. It's one of many macros included in our Handy Macros for Confluence. With its help, you can create custom sets of statuses and switch them without editing the page.
Best regards,
Elena
I've tried this a few times this hasn't worked for me. Is there something that I'm doing wrong?
The shortcut "[]" does not work. Also when I try to add a checkbox without shortcut it gets pushed out of the /expand macro.
Hi @imachin , @MarQuita Scott ,
I tested this in Cloud and both worked fine.
Can you clarify whether you are on Server/DC or Cloud? What is happening when you try @MarQuita Scott ?
Why there is no native control in confluence for a drop down that you can use in pages?
How is this supposed to be helpful. if we work in a big company which for security reasons cant do a cloud version. is there any other option, that is included in the server/ data center solution?
YES! You are completely right, Mario!What a waste of time to look for solutions for simple things like drop down lists! Not at all an argument in favor to Confluence...
Hi @Elsa Navarro
Sure, the same functionality is available in the Data Center version of the app.
Hi SR
Confluence is a good product compared with other products. Considering that more and more people are using Confluence to push corporate documentation, we should have available more edit tools deployed with Confluence.
Atlassian reads our comments and they act upon them.
Wanna bet they will deploy the dropdown soon?
There is a suggestion for this; check out CONFCLOUD-71449
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