How can I use variables to define Space properties such as Organisation Name, Product Name, Version?

Shilpa Devi

Change is always constant and we must adapt to it. Considering that few parameters in our documents change often, I want to define a kind of configurations (name = Value pair) for my space, so that I can change them when required.

For example, if I want the Product name to be a variable, I want to declare the current name and reuse it across the space referring to one location. And when the name changes, I can only modify the Product name in one location and the rest of the document picks it up.

I searched the Community for similar scenarios but did not find an effective solution.

Any help is appreciated.

John Corwith

If you don't need a complex solution, a very basic method would be to create a user macro for your property, and include that macro on all the pages associated with that property. If you update the macro, every page it appears on will be updated. This will require admin priviledges to create and administer these.

## Macro name: propertyversona
## Macro Title: Property Version A
## Macro Body Processing: No macro body
## Visibility: Visible only to system administrators (if you don't want users to see/insert these macros)
## @noparams
## Previous Versions
## 1.0, 1.1

1.2

The above should print out the version (1.2) where ever you include the macro {Property Version A} on a page. Text may wrap around it, I'm not sure (I don't currently have admin access to test.)