Key concepts

1 Overview | 2 Challenges | 3 Solution | 4 Ready to start?

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

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 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, and guided by predefined sections. In this case, you would have Problems, Troubleshooting Steps, Solution, 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 - and with tens (or hundreds) of pages, even harder.

Solution

Scaffolding made this easy with two key functionalities.

Create versatile forms	Make templates dynamic

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.	By using the Live Template macro that calls on pages or templates equipped with the Field Group macro, you can turn a static template into a dynamic template.

A typical setup showing pages containing Live Template macro

By having the above structure, you can create tens or hundreds of pages using the same template.

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.

Ready to start?

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