Introduction to Scaffolding
- Elizabeth Tai
- Smita Nair
- Megan Storie
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 | Available | About |
|---|---|---|
User community | Visit our Scaffolding Community to learn from our experienced user community. | |
Ease of use | Access powerful and easy-to-use text and date editors, plus flexible drop-down lists. | |
Templates | Create templates to help structure data collections and presentation. | |
Dynamic forms | Use the Confluence Edit Content capability to enter data and create new entries. | |
Drop-down list selections | Access customer drop-down lists. | |
Advanced list selections | Use custom drop-down lists based on attachments, images, user pages and other non-text selections. | |
In-Form calculations | Display the data gather in Scaffolding with numeric summaries and data analysis. | |
Dynamical show/hide data | Control the data displayed to your users based on custom constraints. | |
Custom data retrieval/grouping | Display your data using custom grouping and display rules. | |
Reporting | Basic report capability of Scaffolding can be enhanced with the advanced features of the Appfire Reporting Add-on for Confluence. | |
Integration | 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). |
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