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Overview

Scaffolding provides reusable and editable forms with powerful live templates to simplify managing large Confluence instances.

With Scaffolding, you can dynamically modify existing content by changing the underlying live templates, simplifying content management in Confluence.

Challenges

Imagine that you need to create and maintain a similar group of pages, for example, knowledge base articles.

You want

Problem

  • the articles to share the same format, layout, look, and feel by using templates

It's hard to streamline this across tens or hundreds of pages

  • apply structure and layout changes in the template to all articles at once

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

Confluence doesn't enforce standards in page structure, and everyone is free to adopt their own

Creating and maintaining similar pages is hard

Creating and maintaining similar pages is hard - and even harder with tens (or hundreds) of pages.

Solution

Scaffolding made this easy with two key functionalities.

Create versatile forms

Make templates dynamic

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.

You can turn a static template into a dynamic template by using the Live Template macro, which calls on pages or templates equipped with the Field Group macro.

Each Live Template macro references the same template containing a Field Group macro.

You can create tens or hundreds of pages using the same template by having the above structure.

Each of the pages can be edited in a form structure, making it easy for end users to contribute content based on what's been defined.

The structure you defined, in turn, becomes a form to which end users can easily add content to

Ready to start?

Follow the Quick start guide to create your first solution.


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