CRC Cards?

Question

Has anyone come up with a simple template or macro that would enable easy addition of CRC cards? essentially I want a small panel/tabel/box divided inoto three sections like this:

I made this one using table and merged the top row. But since I am going to be making dozens or hundreds of these, I just want to be able to cut& paste or use a macro to insert them. Unfortunately, there is a bug with the cut&paste so that pasted tables look like this:

where the top row gets truncated down to a single column. This isn't terrible, but it's annoying (especially with long class names, which stretch the first column way out). Any suggestions for a workaround?

salehparsa · Answer

Hi Kevin,

You are most welcome. Wish I could help more.

As you said " I just want to be able to cut& paste or use a macro to insert them." I thought that it's your predefined format. Maybe other people can modify this based on your need.

Cheers,

Saleh

Kevin Mote · Answer

Wow, this is cool -- I've never used User macros before in Confluence. Thanks for taking the time to create and post this! But from what I can see, this isn't really extensible, is it? (I.e., there's no way to add, for example, 3 Responsibilites and 5 Collaborators without editing the macro code and html itself, is that right? Or am I missing something? I'm guessing I'd have to use some sort of javascript to make it more dynamic -- a little outside my skillset at the moment.)

The other disadvantage with this approach is that I can't view the table in Page-Edit mode. It just looks like this:

I either have to preview the page or open the macro edit pane to actually see the table.

So I'm not sure that this is really a solution that will fit my needs. But again, I really appreciate the time you took to help me. And at least you have demonstrated the usefulness of User Macros which could come in really handy someday!

salehparsa · Answer

Hi Kevin, Following is a user macro code that I tried for this example. You can following the steps below to recreate this macro: Confluence Admin Panel > User Macros > Create a User Macro * Fill the mandatory fields such as Macro Name and Macro Title. * Select Formatting for categories. * Select Escaped for Macro Body Processing. * Copy and paste the following on Template ## @param classname:type=string|desc=Class Name ## @param responsibility:type=string|desc=Responsibility Title ## @param R1:type=string|desc=Responsibility One ## @param R2:type=string|desc=Responsibility Two ## @param collaborate:type=string|desc=Collaborate Title ## @param C1:type=string|desc=Collaborate One ## @param C2:type=string|desc=Collaborate Two #set ($paramHead1 ="CLASS NAME")

$!paramclassname

$!paramresponsibility

$!paramR1
$!paramR2

$!paramcollaborate

$!paramC1
$!paramC2

I would like to recommend you to take a look at Writing User Macro Template documentation. Let me know if you have any other questions, Cheers Saleh