Is there a shortcut way to use 2 macros together?

Steve Reynolds

We're using Confluence for some product documentation. The documentation has lots of chunks of text that are reused in various places, so we're using "Include Page" to pull them into the right place. But every time we pull them into the page we also want the chunk to be expandable/collapsible, so we're using the expand macro.

This means that every time we pull a chunk of text in we have to use 2 macros separately, like this:

expand "Chunk title"

include page "Chunk title"

There are thousands of these chunks, so it's very tiresome doing this repeatedly.

Is there a way we can combine the expand and include together in a shortcut, to speed this up?

Thanks!

David at David Simpson Apps

Try this user macro:

## Macro title: Expand and Include Page
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: David Simpson, AppFusions <david@appfusions.com>
## Date created: 2013-06-20
## Installed by: My Name

## See: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/182288/is-there-a-shortcut-way-to-use-2-macros-together
## Source: https://gist.github.com/dvdsmpsn/5822321

## This is an example macro
## @param Name:title=Page Name|type=string|required=true|desc=Your page name
## @param SpaceKey:title=Space Key|type=string|desc=Add the space key if including from another space

#if($paramSpace)
  #set($includeName = "$paramPacekey:$paramName")
#else
	#set($includeName = $paramName)
#end
<ac:macro ac:name="expand">
	<ac:parameter ac:name="title">${paramName}</ac:parameter>
	<ac:rich-text-body>
		<ac:macro ac:name="include">
			<ac:default-parameter>${includeName}</ac:default-parameter>
		</ac:macro>
	</ac:rich-text-body>
</ac:macro>

Updates here: https://gist.github.com/dvdsmpsn/5822321

More on user macros:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding,+Editing+and+Removing+User+Macros