Is it possible to paste markdown containing macros?

[David Wahlstedt]

Hello,

I am wrtiting a document in emacs org-mode, and export to markdown(if you don't know what org-mode is, you can consider me as writing markdown) I want some of the paragraphs to be expandable, and I found that confluence supports the "expand" macro. I have succeeded with the following:

I paste the markdown file into confluence, and it show exactly what I want. So far so good! Then I cut out a larrge wall of text that I want to be expandable, so I type "/expand" and then paste in my section manually.

But, according to this page

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/expand-macro-223222352.html

it should be possible to enclose a section between

{expand}

...

{expand}

to get it expandable.

So I modified my markdown accordingly, but without success. It it possible to edit the confluence contents in "raw" wiki format? Then I could try to paste it in there.

Thanks in advance!

David

[Bill Bailey]

You may have hit on a limitiation of the new editor in Cloud. But yes, you can edit the source code (XHTML) for the page. But you will need a special editor to do so.  I suggest this app:

source-editor-for-confluence 

[David Wahlstedt]

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look!

[David Wahlstedt]

Hello,

It seems as if the source editor is a tool that is not included in the standard functionality: it was only available as a "free trial", which in practice means it's not an option for me. I want to use what's available in what's already included in the Jira/bitbucket/confluence account.

Is it not possible to edit confluence pages with wiki notation?

It would be a great improvement to have that, so you don't have to click and type everything manually.

BR,

David

[Bill Bailey]

Theoretically yes, but I am pretty sure that was deprecated with the new editor, and possibly in the cloud version generally (Cloud is generally a feature-reduced version of server, with more features being removed everyday ;-) ).

Unfrotunately, Confluence often needs a few free/paid plugins to get what you want. Just the nature of the beast. If you compare the cost of the plugin versus your productivity, it may well be worth it.

[David Wahlstedt]

Thanks for your answer :-)

I don't know if my employer would find it worthy, and my task is now not that urgent that it motivates such a purchase. But it is good to know that it exists! I will work around it by either inserting the expands manually, or having links to separate pages. Or I'll just be more brief, and maybe that's a good thing ;-)

Cheers,

David