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How do I create a custom macro to create a page using from a template?

Rafer Gluyas

I know how to create a template and I have a general idea of how to create a macro.

What I want to do is create a macro that enables users to create a page using an already existing template.

Page templates are easy to maintain, which means that any minor changes are easy to view in the WYSIWYG editor, which is why I want to do it this way rather than have a macro that contains the page content in code, and then creates the page using that.

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Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

Hello Rafer,

You can use parametrized URL for creating page from template, see this post:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-questions/URL-or-hyperlink-to-page-creation-via-template/qaq-p/819221

Additionally, you can crate a User Macro with a button which will be the anchor for it. Macro user parameters might be utilized for selecting a template and/or space for the URL

Regards, Roman

Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_

Hello @Rafer Gluyas ,
You can definitely use the process defined by @Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

Checkout Create from Template macro - https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-create-from-template-macro/

Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_

For Data center https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html

Chu Dam

hi @Rafer Gluyas

there is no app install needed here, there is a native macro in Confluence to create a button to display on page, this button will create a new page based on an existing template: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html

I hope this help.
Dam

Rafer Gluyas

This is more what I was looking for, as I wanted to add in some logic behind the variables, extracting dates, incrementing (etc).

Rafer Gluyas

@Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_ I misunderstood your answer and thought that this provided a way to fill in the variables, it does not, all it does is open the template with empty fields.

Is there any way to send the variables through in the same call as well?

Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

Did you mean to fill the new page with variables?

This is how I add them to template:

This is how I call page creation from template:

https://wombats.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage-entervariables.action?templateId=461570049&spaceKey=DS&newSpaceKey=DS&title=My%20Title

This is how it looks for the user who clicked on it:

But I do not find a way to "preset" values to variables by URL, for example

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