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Overview
Scaffolding provides reusable and editable forms with powerful live templates to simplify managing large Confluence instances.
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Imagine that you need to create and maintain a similar group of pages, for example, such as knowledge-base articles.
Requirements | Challenges | ||
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You want | Problem | the articles to share the same format, layout, look, and feel by using templates Panel | |
| It's hard to streamline this across tens or hundreds ofmultiple pages | ||
| apply Applying structure and layout changes in the template to all articles at oncePanel | | ||
| You can't apply further changes to a template to all the previous pages that have already used it (those pages will only display what was on the old template). | ||
| an An easy way for users to contribute and edit content, guided by predefined sections. In this case, you would have Problems, Troubleshooting Steps, Solutions, and so on Panel | | ||
| Confluence does not enforce standards in page structure, and everyone is freeallowed to adopt their own. |
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Solution
Creating and maintaining similar pages is hard could be a complex task - and even harder it’s more complex with tens (or hundreds) of pages.
Solution
Scaffolding made this easy with two key functionalities.
Create versatile forms | Make templates dynamic |
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By using the Field Group field group macro, you can define a page structure. This structure guides the end users on what and where to contribute content. | You can turn a static template into a dynamic template by one using the Live Template macro, which calls on pages or templates equipped with the Field Group macro. |
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You can create tens or hundreds of pages using the same template by having the above structure.
Each of the pages page can be edited in a form structure, making it easy for end users to contribute content based on what's what’s been defined earlier.
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The structure you defined, in turn, becomes a form to which end users can easily add content to |
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