Including All Child Pages

This is applicable only to the Server version.

Scenario

This recipe is handy if you want to have a parent page present an aggregated view of all its children, displayed in full. This recipe includes an Edit link for each section, which will automatically allow the user to edit the listed page. It combines the functionality offered by Reporting for ConfluenceLinking for Confluence, and Visibility for Confluence add-ons.

The steps will guide you on how to include the content of all children of a page, headed by the page title and a link to edit the page.

Result

Recipe

Ingredients

Apps

Linking for Confluence, Reporting for Confluence, Visibility for Confluence

Platform

Server

Level

ADVANCED

Estimated time

30 minutes ⏱

Macros

Content Reporter, Report Block, Report Body, Report Info, Text Sort

Suppliers

Content Supplier

Storage Format

You can copy and paste this code into the Confluence Source Editor:

<p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="9250fecf-e394-4533-aefa-737973f26698" ac:name="report-block" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type">INLINE</ac:parameter> <ac:rich-text-body> <p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="a8b07332-112a-468b-aa12-144feaac98f8" ac:name="content-reporter" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="scope">@self > children</ac:parameter> <ac:rich-text-body> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="b645edb4-b2ea-4cde-a68b-11b8ad9df2f7" ac:name="text-sort" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="">content:title</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro> </ac:rich-text-body> </ac:structured-macro> <p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="a7f431c4-4ce8-44c4-b231-01eb6e988daa" ac:name="report-body" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:rich-text-body> <h2> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="0a1652b8-bff2-4543-a75e-65f24043a7fb" ac:name="report-info" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="link">true</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="">content:title</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro> </h2> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="7f427c06-26e1-476c-94ff-f48c14e1c190" ac:name="show-if" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="spacePermission">edit</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type">INLINE</ac:parameter> <ac:rich-text-body> <p> <em>(<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="3adaafeb-d74e-4f39-b4ac-d9e2a8908e24" ac:name="link-to" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="linkText">Edit</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="">page edit</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro>)</em> </p> </ac:rich-text-body> </ac:structured-macro> <p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="649d8ebc-de47-4937-96ae-8a1dd9adc97a" ac:name="report-info" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="render">richtext</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type">INLINE</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="">content:body</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro> </p> </ac:rich-text-body> </ac:structured-macro> <p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p> </ac:rich-text-body> </ac:structured-macro> <p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="0a6c97bc-a3ba-4fa7-bb6f-5ad1fd3438ff" ac:name="show-if" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="spacePermission">@self:edit</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type">INLINE</ac:parameter> <ac:rich-text-body> <p> <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="9c7e5a7f-1977-4dca-be02-626118bc427e" ac:name="add-page" ac:schema-version="1"> <ac:parameter ac:name="parent">@self</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="linkText">(+) Add a new section</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro> </p> </ac:rich-text-body> </ac:structured-macro> <p class="auto-cursor-target"> <br/> </p>

 

You can recreate the example in the editor view:

 


Steps

  1. The format of the report will be in the form of a Report Block.

  2. The content Reporter is used to report children on the current page by setting the scope to "@self > children".

  3. Pages pulled from Content Reporter are sorted by content title via Text Sort, setting the supplier key to "content:title".

  4. Report Body is used as a container for displaying results.
    Injected is set to true so that we can inject values within the field of Link to Location macro (see step 7).

  5. Report Info displays the title of each page returned from the Content Reporter, setting the supplier key to "content:title".

  6. The Show If macro will only display the contained contents (see step 7) if the current user can edit this current space by setting the Space Permissions parameter to "@self:edit" or "edit".
    This macro is from the Visibility add-on.

  7. Link to Location macro creates a link to special Confluence locations. In this case, it links to the edit page of each child page from Content Reporter. The Location parameter is set to "page edit".
    The content parameter is set to "%content:title%".
    The "%" sign indicates that the enclosed text is injected - the text within will be replaced by the value of supplier key "content:title".
    Link Text is set to "Edit".
    This macro is from the Linking add-on.

  8. The Report Info macro displays the content body by setting the supplier key to "content:body". The render parameter is set to "RichText".

  9. Same as Step 6.

  10. The Add Page page creates a link that adds a new page. The Parent parameter of this created page is the current page, i.e., "@self". The Link Text parameter is set to " Add a new section". This macro is from the Linking for Confluence Server & Data Center add-on.