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The Scaffolding plugin allows you to create dynamic forms and form templates. 

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Capabilities of the Scaffolding Macros

The Scaffolding macros are available in an add-on distributed by Service Rocket, whose website

• Create forms to fill in
• Collect and display data
• Manipulate and evaluate data
• In conjunction with the Reporting macros (not installed on the NCI Wiki), create reports from data
• Using live-templates, create pages with forms and data; these forms and data will change dynamically wherever the template is usedin use, each time someone updates the template is updated.

Service Rocket organizes the macros in a hierarchy as follows:

• Tables (table-data)
• Templates (live-template)
• Fields
  • date-data
  • eval-data
  • excerpt-data
  • get-data
  • group-data
  • hidden-data
  • number-data
  • repeating-data
  • set-data
  • text-data
• Lists (list-data)
  • label-options
  • content-options
  • list-option
  • attachment-options
  • user-options
• Attachments (attachment-data)

List of the Scaffolding Macros

In the The Service Rocket Macro Reference

• attachment-data
• attachment-options
• content-options
• date-data
• eval-data
• excerpt-data
• get-data
• group-data
• hidden-data
• label-options
• list-data
• list-option
• live-template
• number-data
• repeating-data
• set-data
• table-data
• text-data
• user-options

Using the Scaffolding Macros

To use the Scaffolding macros

1. Enter { and the first few characters of the name of the macro.

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1.  The macro browser

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1. appears.
2. Select the macro,

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1. configure the

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1. parameters, and insert the macro.

To edit data on a page with Scaffolding macros

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1. Click Edit Contents

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1. .
2. Complete the fields provided.

To edit the page

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1. Click Edit

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1. .
2. Make the changes and

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1. click Save.

These tips are provided We provided the following pages to show tasks that can be completed using one or more of the macros on the NCI Wiki. These examples were initially adapted or excerpted from Atlassian's pages for Confluence 3.4.

Additional Information

The following resources provide more information about the Scaffolding macros.

Videos

• Videos listed on the Service Rocket website

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• Scaffolding Plugin video on YouTube

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• Scaffolding and Reporting Plugins video on YouTube

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   (The Reporting macros are not installed on the NCI Wiki.)

Overviews, User Guide, Example

• Atlassian's overview

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• Service Rocket's overview

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• User Guide

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• Example from New York University

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  (search for "Scaffolding Plugin")