Status macro with predefined selections visible in edit mode

[Christoph Harrer]

Hello, 

The status macro is very useful and readable. But it's seems often very repetitive to reconfigure it all the time(title + color).

Is there a possibility to have a preconfigured sets of title/color combinations that can be selected by two clicks?

• 1) select macro and enable edit
• 2) select the target title&color combination

I was looking through some drop-down list macros, but they are only visible in preview or final view. In this case it should be readable in edit-mode

If nothing like this is around. Maybe some custom macro can be produced? I was finding some documentation for creating user macros or plug-ins but I am a bit confused which one I should look into. 

• User macros seem to only be rendered in preview or final view, never in edit mode. Is this correct?
• Then I need to go for plug-ins if functions in edit mode are needed?

Br, Christoph

[Bill Bailey · Accepted solution]

Hello @Christoph Harrer . Since you are on server, you are in luck. I have at least a partial solution to your problem already drawn up. Please take a look at my article here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Getting-Started-with-User-Macros-Writing-a-Wrapper-Macro/ba-p/979571 

Take a look

[Christoph Harrer]

Hitting the nail on the head, thanks for the quick answer! I will try it out.

[Daniel Toth]

Hello @Bill Bailey , I like your wrapper example and I am looking for something similar which seems to be more complex. Particularly, I'd like to extend the macro "popular labels" by the filter "excludedLabels" which is e.g. in the macro "listlabels". Can you help me out here? Thanks!

[Stiltsoft Support]

Hello @Christoph Harrer ,

Try our Handy Macros for Confluence app. It has many macros in a bundle including Handy Status. It allows you to create custom sets with multiple statuses and reuse them across pages. In addition, you can configure visibility per each set (personal, space, global), connect status with page label for future quick search by labels, and track the history of status changes.