The Scaffolding plugin allows you to create dynamic forms and form templates.
Capabilities of the Scaffolding Macros
The Scaffolding macros are available in an add-on distributed by Service Rocket, whose website explains that Scaffolding gives a Confluence instance the ability to do the following:
- Create forms to fill in
- Collect and display data
- Manipulate and evaluate data
- Using live-templates, create pages with forms and data; these forms and data will change dynamically wherever the template is in use, each time someone updates the template.
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
The Service Rocket Macro Reference provides a complete list of the macros:
- 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
- Enter { and the first few characters of the name of the macro. The macro browser appears.
- Select the macro, configure the parameters, and insert the macro.
To edit a page with Scaffolding macros
- Select the Edit Contents link.
- Complete the fields provided.
To edit the page
- Select the Edit link.
- Make the changes and select Save.
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
- Scaffolding Plugin video on YouTube
- Scaffolding and Reporting Plugins video on YouTube (The Reporting macros are not installed on the NCI Wiki.)
Overviews, User Guide, Example
- Atlassian's overview
- Service Rocket's overview
- User Guide
- Example from New York University (search for "Scaffolding Plugin")
Scaffolding Tags - Do Not Use
Scaffolding macros should no longer be enclosed inside Scaffolding tags.