Variables in confluence Text

[Fabian Arndt]

Hello,

is there a easy way to define certain variables. like $comanyname=mycompany and use them confuence or space wide?

We wish to sync some pages between multiple company's and that would be a handy feature.

[Bill Bailey]

Have you looked at the metadata plugins? You could set a bunch of custom metadata values on a page at root (so it doesn't appear in the left-hand navigation), which can be referenced anywhere in Confluence.

I use this plugin to pass values to documents with the k15t Scroll export utilities.

[EPS Software Engineering AG]

Hi Fabian,

Maybe our App Easy Space Variables could help. You find it on the Marketplace.

Regards,
Stephan (I am the CEO of EPS, the vendor of Easy Space Variables)

[Fabian Arndt]

Thanks but we already try your plug-in. It seems do do exactly what we need.

:)

[EPS Software Engineering AG]

Ok, great. Please let us know if you need any assistance.

[Robert Reiner _smartics_]

There are similar questions:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-use-variables-to-define-Space-properties-such-as/qaq-p/619160
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-use-variables-across-multiple-Confluence-pages/qaq-p/455365

Maybe the User Macro approach (first link) is a solution to your requirements?

[Davin Studer]

To add to this if you create a user macro to do the replacement you could put the macro in you page decorator so that is is automatically included on every page.

[Shannon S]

Hi Fabian,

I would recommend using Excerpt Include Macro for this. 

You can have a page with the main excerpts you'll be re-using, and then you can call them from other pages within Confluence. Keep in mind that a user will need to have view access to the source location if they are to see the excerpt on another page.

Let me know if you have any questions on how to use that.

Regards,

Shannon

[Fabian Arndt]

Hello,

we already use that on some occasions. but that's not what we need.

What we need is a defined list of words which will be replaced by a set value.

$cname with mycompany

[Shannon S]

Fabian,

There's no additional feature like that at the moment, but we do have a feature request for it:

• CONFSERVER-3999

Otherwise, you may be able to use an add-on such as Scripting for Confluence. It looks like you may be able to have set variables there.

Regards,

Shannon