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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.
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You want |
Problem
the articles to share the same format, layout, look, and feel by using templates |
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. | It's hard to streamline this across |
multiple pages |
Applying structure and layout changes in the template to all articles |
simultaneously. | 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 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 |
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does not enforce standards in page structure, and everyone is |
allowed to adopt their own. |
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Solution
Creating and maintaining similar pages is hard could be a complex task - and it’s more complex with tens (or hundreds) of pages, even harder.
Solution
Scaffolding made this easy with two key functionalities.
Create versatile forms | Make templates dynamic |
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By using the |
field group macro, you can define a page structure. This structure guides the end users on what and where to contribute content. |
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You can turn a static template into a dynamic one using the Live Template macro |
, which calls on pages or templates equipped with the Field Group macro |
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Each Live Template macro is referencing to references the same template , which contains containing a Field Group macro. |
By having the above structure, you 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 that to which end users can easily add content to |
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Follow the Quick quick start guide to create your first solution.
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