Hi Community, I created a global template in my Confluence where I defined a list type variable with 3 options. When I create a new Confluence page using this template, the variable is shown as list and I can pick one of the option from the list. This is a screenshot for the variable. However, when I published the page and open it again, I can't edit this variable because it became a plain text line in Confluence page. Do you know if this is the limitation Confluence has or I need to make some configuration to make the list variable working? Thanks a lot! Yi

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Confluence template list variable can't be reused/updated

Yi Meng

Hi Community,

I created a global template in my Confluence where I defined a list type variable with 3 options. When I create a new Confluence page using this template, the variable is shown as list and I can pick one of the option from the list.

This is a screenshot for the variable.

Confluence variable.png

However, when I published the page and open it again, I can't edit this variable because it became a plain text line in Confluence page. Do you know if this is the limitation Confluence has or I need to make some configuration to make the list variable working? Thanks a lot!

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Barbara Szczesniak

@Yi Meng This is how variables in templates work in Confluence Cloud. Once you set a value for the variable, it becomes text on the new page.

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Barbara Szczesniak

@Yi Meng This is how variables in templates work in Confluence Cloud. Once you set a value for the variable, it becomes text on the new page.

Yi Meng

OK. If that's by design, I'm fine with it. I was expecting this could be a workaround for drop-down list in Confluence page.

Thank you!

Elena Kokoliou

Hello, I followed the guidelines here for the variable list , but when I create a page from the template, the variables don't appear and not be prompted me to enter text into the field.

Do you know which could be the issue?

Thank you,

Elena

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