Confluence Content Formatting Macros add-in for Confluence Server?

Question

We have an on demand instance for our internal wiki, and use a server instance for our external product documentation. I noticed the on demand instance comes with a set of HTML macros (e.g. div, span, ...). They seem to be part of a package called "Confluence Content Formatting Macros". How do we get the same plug-in for the server instance?

I'm aware of the paid Adaptvist add-on, but this seems to be capability that is in the box (or should be).

colinb · Answer

According to the Adaptvist Content Formatting FAQ the add-on is now a fully paid add-on:

Starting from version 5.0.0, Content Formatting for Confluence is a fully paid add-on. This means we can invest in the future development of the add-on and, of course, it becomes fully-supported by Adaptavist’s support SLA.

When we searched for the Adaptvist Content Formatting add-on from the Server administration page it came up as Free Trial or Buy Now.

When we searched for the Confluence Content Formatting Macros add-on from the Server administration page no results were returned. On our on-demand instance it is listed as a "System add-on".

Steven F Behnke · Answer

Well, have you tried? I'm inclined to believe the free versions is still available. Again, you just need to install the plugin without paying for it, the free macros I believe are still free.

It's not packaged, I believe, because Atlassian hasn't shipped officially third party modules to my understanding.

These add-ons I don't believe are enabled by default in New Cloud systems, so I believe they are feature similar.

colinb · Answer

That sounds like a good workaround, thanks! It's easy to forget all of the server-only features after trying to move as much as possible to on-demand. :)

It would be nice to understand why Confluence Content Formatting Macros is available in the on-demand edition but not in the server edition. You would think there would be a goal to keep the two products reasonably consistent.