auto-populating the currentuser name and today's date when creating a new from from a template

Gilbert Louis_26mip3

Hi,

Creating my first space template and I'm looking to minimize input fields and so I am looking to automatically populate the 'Requested by' field by the currentusername (registered name of the user creating that new document) AND the created date (today) when a user is creating a new document from that specific template.

Thx for your help

Diego_88dj6o

 

Hello there Gilbert!
You can surely achieve this with native tools from Confluence. However, we will need to dig a little into User Macros creation.

Let us start by taking a look here:

Macro Template Syntax

Writing User Macros

Now for us to achieve this result, we will need to:

1- Click the Cog Icon at the top right corner in Confluence
2- Select General Configuration
3- Search for User Macros in the left side bar
4- Enter User Macros
5- Click to Create a User Macro

Now that we are inside the creation, we can start creating the macro:

1- In the Macro name text field, insert a name for this macro. I used creator-macro, for the sake of simplicity
2- Select who can view this macro under Visibility
3- Write a Macro Title for this macro. Macro title is what is shown when you search for this macro
4- Under Definition of User Macro, look into Macro Body processing
5- Select No Macro Body
6- Now in the Template text field, insert this code for the macro

## @noparams

<div class="aui-message aui-message-info">
$content.getCreatorName()
$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("yyyy-MM-dd", $content.getCreationDate()) 
</div>

7- Save the macro

After saving, you can now create your template and insert this new macro into it. When someone uses the template, their name and content creation date should be displayed.

Let us know if this is what you are looking for!

 

edit: fixed the user macro