Adding nested macros to confluence page via API (ScriptRunner)

Question

Hi community,

Just posting a question here since I've been having trouble finding resources for this.

While using scriptrunner to create a page, I can add macros to it. I do it through XML like this:

xml.'ac:structured-macro'('ac:name':"section) {
    'ac:rich-text-body'("here are some values to be shown in the body of the macro")
}

but keep running into problems when I try to add a macro within the body of that first macro. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here or point me at some documentation? Not sure how to bypass the 'WYSIWYG' editor many of these macro's have. Here is an example of one attempt of mine:xml.'ac:structured-macro'('ac:name':"section") {
    'ac:inline'('ac:structured-macro'('ac:name':"column") {
        'ac:rich-text-body'("there should be some value in here")
    })
}

EDIT: Found during testing and looking at other documentation pages that you can specify 'inline' instead of 'rich-text-body' or 'plain-text' and it will read a little bit of the code. It was just reading the string value "there should be some value in here" instead of just "ac:structured-macro". Still not invoking the macro to be nested in the section macro.

Jordan Hauser · Answer

This appears to be the Confluence api, for this post I was generating the page from our Jira instance. Basically I created the confluence page template manually, then copied the page source into my code and edited certain lines to use variables instead of whatever was in the template. Whatever you pull from the template page source, try pasting that into the 'page.setBodyAsString('')' function I tested what you posted in my console and after editing the string page source stuff I had from my original script (basically just removed the variables I had in) and it worked just fine Here is an example you can paste in that spot, just replace the issue key with some one from your systems (shows up twice, I bolded and underlined them) """

Jira issuekey,summary,issuetype,created,updated,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution Key,Summary,Type,Created,Updated,Assignee,Reporter,Priority,Status,Resolution key = JTES-2256 08c4b063-58d0-3ea5-906a-60932f95f843 JTES-2256

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Manager Approving:

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Stefan Salzl · Answer

Hi @Jordan Hauser

In your original post you mentioned you are able to embed a macro while creating a page via xml.

Could you please provide an example of code how this would work?

I got stuck on how to add the xml/macro content to the page content:

import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page

import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceManager

import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.PageManager

import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator

def pageManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(PageManager)

def spaceManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SpaceManager)

def spaceKey = "STS"

def space = spaceManager.getSpace("${spaceKey}")

def homePage = space.getHomePage()

Page parentPage = pageManager.getPage(homePage.id);

Page page = new Page();

page.setSpace(space);

page.setParentPage(parentPage);

page.setTitle("Created by Scriptrunner");

page.setBodyAsString('');

parentPage.addChild(page);

pageManager.saveContentEntity(page, null, null);

This is where I am. Tried to add the macro as string but didn´t work.
Any help appreciated.
Best
Stefan

Alexandra-Mihaela Apostol_ca8xte · Answer

Hi @Jordan Hauser , this worked perfectly for me!

Thank you for your explanation!

Cheers,

Alexandra-Mihaela