Description

This macro has similar parameters as the SQL macro and behaves similarly in most cases. There are two primary reasons for using sql-file:

Security — it can be secured separately from the other SQL macros.
- Using Macro Security for Confluence, more general users can be authorized to use this macro since the administrator controls what queries can be accessed.
- When not using Macro Security for Confluence, the administrator can disable the sql and sql-query macros and still allow the sql-file macro since it has a fixed set of queries that can be run.
Simplified file access — the modified parameter makes it easier to specify and read SQL from files.

Usage Parameters

Parameter

Required

Default

Macro Browser Label

Description

Data source
(may be restricted)

Data Source Name

Specify the data source name. It represents an application server defined data source or data source profile defined by your administrator.

file
(may be restricted)

File

File path in the configured Confluence server home directory under the script directory.

Output

Output format

Determines how the output is formatted:

HTML — Generates HTML from the result set data. Data is HTML encoded unless encoding has been disabled.
wiki — Generates and renders wiki markup from result set data. If the data might contain unintended wiki markup characters, set the escape parameter as true.
XHTML (Pro Edition) — Generates and renders XHTML from result set data. Data is HTML encoded unless encoding has been disabled (disableAntiXss).
unrenderedWiki (Pro Edition) — Generates wiki markup from result set data, similar to wiki, without rendering. Wraps with a table-plus macro suitable for copying to another system.

For more information on common SQL parameters, refer to Working with SQL parameters - 9.x.

The SQL-file macro has dozens of built-in parameters that you can explore and apply.