Is it possible to set a variable to be used later in the page?

Question

We've got a lot of Confluence pages that contain runbooks. These runbooks contain code sections we need to copy/paste.

I'd like a text field at the top of the page, which an end user can fill. The text in this field should then be used to populate the variables inside code snippets later on the page, which now manually have to be edited after copy/pasting, which sometimes leads to errors.

I wonder if there's an existing plugin that does this, lr get some pointers on how we could get this to work.

Fenil Fadadu · Answer

@Brian Bolt I also could really use something like this. Did you find an alternative in Atlassian?

Brian Bolt_kc77sa · Answer

I think something like this is the goal.  https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/guides/create-cluster#creating_a_cloud_dataproc_cluster

Being able to create simple variables and use them throughout the page would be great.  Do you know of any specific market place or build in features for this?  A bonus would be able to set them via URL params so we can direct people to a page with as a pre-filled tempted page.

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Answer

Hi @Bas H ,

If the code text is in a code block then probably not. You maybe able to look into using variables.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html#CreateaTemplate-Templatevariables

IF you are using code blocks, it might be worth looking a code blocks type of apps int he marketplace.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&query=code%20block

Hope this helps.