Export of user macro values not workling when using javascript

thorsten_schmidt

Hi,

I'm just getting started to create user macros for confluence so I hope this is not a to silly question.

I created an user macro which simply searches for some text on it's confluence page and depending on the search result creates an output.

Simplified it looks like this:

<span id=(resultDate+$content.id)></span>

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {

    var dateElement = document.getElementById("(resultDate+" + $content.id+ ")");
        var dateResult = "Date result text";

    $(dateElement).html(dateResult);

});
</script>

The macro works as expected but when I try to export the page as pdf or word my result is not included in the export.

As far as I searched the forum I guess that exporting is done on the server side and the javascript is done on the client side so that my javascript is not executed when exporting.

How can I achieve that my result is also included in the export-files?

Best regards,
Thorsten

Davin Studer

You are correct that the PDF and Word export is server side. You could however, run your user macro and the print to PDF. That happens client side and thus you DOM changes made via JavaScript would be caught.