How to add user-defined page properties?

[Klaas Van Ammel]

Is it possible to add user-defined page properties, similar to those which are displayed in the page history (e.g. version)? Goal is to have metadata of which the value is page revision specific, not just page specific. Metadata using the Metadata plug-in is always displayed in the current state of the page, even when viewing an old revision of the page.

[Ture Hoefner]

The Page Properties macro confused me for a while because I assumed that it deals with the page properties that Confluence provides for apps:  https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/confluence-entity-properties/

But the Page Properties (and Report) macro is something altogether different.  It is a key/value aggregator that aggregates a collection of keys/values filtered by page label.

I'm posting this here because this is where I landed while searching for info on whether or not the Page Properties macro uses page properties (it does not).

[Klaas Van Ammel]

Yes, I've tried those macros, but as to my understanding the 'page properties' which are defined via the page properties macro are only accessible via the page properties report macro, and only in the format of that macro. Or can these properties also be accessed in another way?

[Davin Studer]

By default they cannot be accessed in other ways.

[Klaas Van Ammel]

Do you mean there is a non-default way too in which they can be accessed?

[Davin Studer]

Sure, but you'd have to write your own add-on to do it.

[Klaas Van Ammel]

Where does Confluence store these properties? Are there examples available how to retrieve them or where to look for them via a custom plug-in?

[Davin Studer]

Here is the developer documentation. Also, if you are an Atlassian customer you can get the source I believe for the page properties and the page properties report macro. https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started

[Davin Studer]

Have you tried looking at the page properties macro? That's the whole point of it. Combine it with the page properties report macro and you can get some nice reporting on the meta data within your pages.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Macro

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Report+Macro