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Confluence: how to use variables in a page

John Bercik

How can I use variables in a page in Confluence please? For example I want to type "company" variable and have it insert my company name, address, city, state.

Can I have a list of variables for a space that all pages in the space can use ?

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David at David Simpson Apps

Tell us which product you want help with -- Confluence?

John Bercik

I did get a "User Macro" setup to include text with the reference to the user macro "{mymacro}". Is that the only way ?

Jeremy Largman

I'm not quite understanding what you mean by a variable. Do you mean that you would type 'company' and the values would change, depending on who you are (ie what company you work for?).

In either case, writing either a user macro or a plugin would probably be the way to go. If it's simply a text replacement, it looks like you already discovered the user macro. If it's a true variable, and pulls some data from LDAP, you can probably even do that in a user macro as well (you can access the user object, then try to get user properties), like this:

($generalUtil.getUserAccessor().getUser($userId))

There's a good example here. Let us know more specifically what you want.

K Cann

See reply.

K Cann

I think that the question can be explained as follows (this is also my question):

The content author for a page enters a variable, such as <company>.
Somewhere else, the author defines a list of values for each variable. One of these might be, for example, company = Atlassian.
On the page, Confluence replaces the variable <company> with the value 'Atlassian'.
Any exported output also replaces the variable <company> with the value 'Atlassian'.
If the content author changes the value to something else, the value is automatically replaced on the Confluence page.

How might this be accomplished?

Shilpa Devi

I dont see this question answered yet. I have a similar requirement to meet and would be glad if any one in the Community can provide a feasible solution