3rd party apps with plain text macros will now be compatible with the new editing experience

[#1]

Hi team,

For those of you who’ve had 3rd party apps with plain text macros installed on their sites, we have good news - these will soon be compatible with the new editing experience.

For context, plain text macros are any macros that take text as the main input and convert that to a different output. We don’t have any plain text macros native to Confluence, but a number of 3rd party apps make use of them, and they’ve been temporarily unavailable in the new editor.

One of the main focuses with the new experience has been to make pages look the same while editing as they do when published, so you have more predictability and control over how your page looks.

Image: plain text macros in the old editor

In the old editor, you’d add the text in a box, as in the image above. You might have several lines of text, which would take up a lot of space while you were editing, but when you’d publish, you’d have a completely different sized and shaped output.

In order to make plain text macros look the same while editing as when published, we’ve moved the text input step into the macro browser. That means that when you add a plain text macro to your page now, you’ll first be prompted to add your text within the macro browser, and when you’re done, you’ll see the fully rendered output on your page. To edit that text again, just edit the macro.

Image: plain text macros in the new editor

This change has already rolled out behind a feature flag, so for any of you who need these macros to work in the new editor immediately, please let us know and we can enable this for your site.

For the rest of you, this change will go live in mid-June in order to give 3rd party developers time to make any necessary changes to their macros.

Thanks for your patience!

[Andrey Stepanov]

I'm developer of one of plain text macro. Could you please enable this feature for my account?

[Kevin Chase]

@Klaus Could you please enable this on https://artemis-dev2.atlassian.net/wiki and https://artemis-dev4.atlassian.net/wiki as well?  We have a plain-text macro we need to test this with.

[Ajay _view26_]

Hi @Klaus ,

Could figure out your email id :)

My test instance is - https://sitetestconfluence.atlassian.net

[Deleted user]

Hi @spud , 

can you please confirm if this feature is enabled on my test instance - https://vdev.atlassian.net/wiki

If not, can you please do the needful.

[Tech Labs]

@spud  is this issue fixed and released? We still get this issue :(

[Vladislav Falfushinsky]

Dear @spud ,

Is it possible to enable this feature for https://sharecatsolutions.atlassian.net?

Would be very grateful for that.