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What's Missing in Confluence?

Confluence is a user-friendly tool for sharing unstructured data within its native environment. However, as our users have noted, some tasks can be challenging, such as:

  • Easily collecting and displaying structured data.

  • Creating and enforcing consistency in data handling, access, and presentation.

  • Capturing and delivering structured data across groups and teams.

Scaffolding addresses all these concerns and more.

What is Scaffolding?

Scaffolding is a powerful app for Atlassian Confluence that helps you manage structured data with editable forms and reusable linked templates. It includes custom macros that capture, store and manage structured data on a Confluence page. This data can then be manipulated, evaluated, or compiled into reports.

What Scaffolding provides

Consider these features when evaluating Confluence forms solutions.

Feature

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User Community

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Visit our Scaffolding Community to learn from our experienced user community

Ease of use

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Access powerful and easy-to-use text and date editors, plus flexible drop-down lists

Templating

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Create templates to help structure data collections and presentation

Dynamic Forms

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Use the Confluence Edit Content capability to enter data and create new entries

Drop-down List Selections

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Access customer drop-down lists

Advanced List Selections

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Use custom drop-down lists based on attachments, images, user pages and other non-text selections

In-Form Calculations

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Display the data gather in Scaffolding with numeric summaries and data analysis

Dynamical Show/hide data

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Control the data displayed to your users based on custom constraints

Custom data retrieval/grouping

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Display your data using custom grouping and display rules

Reporting

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Basic report capability of Scaffolding can be enhanced with the advanced features of the Appfire Reporting Add-on for Confluence

Integration

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Add advanced reporting and SQL database access with the Appfire Reporting app and the M20 Reporting Connector for SQL Databases (the latter app is for server only)

Step 2: Create a Simple Form

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