Can I create macros within an HTML macro?

Willy Case

Hi,

I am just a user, and not an admin of my team's Confluence server. However, I frequently use the HTML macro to include snippets of Javascript to generate dynamic content of some sort. What I'd really like to do is to include an excerpt-include macro within that dynamic content. So, my javascript would generate/edit some html that could include 1 to several excerpt include macros based on some criteria.

Is this possible with Confluence?

Thanks

Stephen Deutsch

Hi Willy,

It's a bit hackish, but not impossible:

<script>
function renderAndInsertMarkup(markup, containingElement) {
 var dataObj = {};
 dataObj.representation = "storage";
 dataObj.content = {};
 dataObj.content.id = AJS.params.pageId;
 dataObj.value = markup;

 jQuery.ajax({dataType: 'json',
  contentType: 'application/json',
  type: 'POST',
  url: contextPath + '/rest/api/contentbody/convert/view',
  data: JSON.stringify(dataObj),
  success: function(response) {
   jQuery(containingElement).append(response.value);
  }
 });
}
renderAndInsertMarkup(`<ac:structured-macro ac:name="cheese" />`, "#output-markup");
</script>
<div id="output-markup"></div>