Hot to add macros to a header, footer or sidebar?

[Tiberiu_Cristea]

Hi,

I noticed that I can customize the sidebar, header and footer in Confluence 5.10.

I would like to add a livesearch macro in the header, but when I paste this, it is displayed as such:

<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="eeede5a3-a0bd-4a99-b7ca-5aa3f5e8043b" ac:name="livesearch" ac:schema-version="1">
 <ac:parameter ac:name="spaceKey">
 <ri:space ri:space-key="bqc"/>
 </ac:parameter>
 </ac:structured-macro> 

 Any help with this?

Thanks.

[Stephen Deutsch · Accepted solution]

You should be able to get it to work by inputting it in the old wiki markup format:

{livesearch:spaceKey=bqc}

The alignment might be off because the header is set to be center-aligned, but it should still work. 

[Hauke Hörhold]

I tried that with the Metadata 2 Plugin (https://comalatech.jira.com/wiki/spaces/META/overview), but the stuff is not rendering when I put for example this in the main.vmd file:

{space-metadata-from:Release-Version}

Do you have any ideas how to accomplish rendering stuff from the Metadata 2 Plugin in a Velocity file?

[Christina Hiller]

Using the suggested {livesearch:spaceKey=xxx} works great in the header.  I'm wondering if there is a way to get just that macro to have its standard alignment for search results, rather then retaining the space header center alignment.

[Sophie Forceno]

It appears that adding {livesearch:spaceKey=xxx} to the header no longer works, at least not for me. No search box is displayed in header, although I can add it to pages just fine.

[Richard J_ Rasor]

We are having a similar issue.  When we use the above referenced way to add macros, we get an error stating that the macro can't be found.