Key concepts
- Robert Alexander Marshall
- Elizabeth Tai (Unlicensed)
- Karina Zoin
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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, such as knowledge-base articles.
Requirements | Challenges |
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You want the articles to share the same format, layout, look, and feel by using templates. | 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. | Confluence does not enforce standards in page structure, and everyone is allowed to adopt their own. |
Solution
Creating and maintaining similar pages could be a complex task - and it’s more complex with tens (or hundreds) of pages. 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. | 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. |
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 page can be edited in a form structure, making it easy for end users to contribute content based on what’s been defined earlier.
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.