Use Forge to replace custom user macros

[Kirstin Seidel-Gebert]

Hi Atlassian community,

I am currently looking into Atlassian Forge because I read somewhere (cannot find this page anymore) that you can use either Forge or Connect to replace custom user macros from your server instance.

I successfully completed the first two tutorials and got some insight, but I'm not sure if this can really replace user macros from Confluence server.
We mainly (and extensively) used user macros to conveniently wrap Confluence macros so that they would be used consistently throughout our instance.

AFAIKS you cannot get Forge to wrap a Confluence cloud macro, can you? I see no way to access Confluence macros via the set of commands Forge supplies, nor with the Confluence API you can use inside Forge.

Is there another way I didn't see? Would this work with Connect (didn't have a look at this yet)?

Cheers,
Kirstin

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked- · Accepted solution]

Forge macro support has less features than Connect macros.

In principle it is possible to embed Connect macros into Forge by using something called "Connect on Forge".  However using this is relatively complex.

From you description, it seems you are using nested macros on server.  You could try to emulate that with Connect macros, but there are some differences.

[Kirstin Seidel-Gebert]

Thanks for your reply, marc. I'll definitely have a closer look at Connect instead of Forge.