User macro: change format of $body

[Rina Nir]

(Confluence 5.7)

Trying to write the following user macro (not a plugin- just from the user interface):

The body of the macro expects a list of link to other pages, and the macro should just apply bullet formatting on them.

The body html, may look like:

<p>
<ac:link>
<ri:page ri:content-title="Management review"/>
</ac:link>
</p>
<p>
<ac:link>
<ri:page ri:content-title="Documents control for HistoScanning, including DMR, DHR, DHF and TF"/>
</ac:link>
</p>

I digged and experimented with the macro, but could not figure out the right strategy. Any hints or examples are welcome.

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

I would do something like this ...

## @noparams
#set( $id = $action.dateFormatter.calendar.timeInMillis )

<div id="links$id">$body</div>
<style type="text/css">
    #links$id {list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 10px 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 40px;}
    #links$id p {display: list-item; margin: 0; padding 0;}
</style>

[Rina Nir]

Wow, I can confirm it does work! Thanks Davin. I would have never thought about such a solution. Now- I want to do even something more advanced. I want to put next to each page link, a certain metadata value from that page, something like this: <p> <ac:structured-macro ac:name="metadata-from"> <ac:parameter ac:name="1">Document number</ac:parameter> <ac:parameter ac:name="0">Management review</ac:parameter> </ac:structured-macro>  <ac:link> <ri:page ri:content-title="Management review"/> </ac:link> </p> So actually- make a simple link into a more sophitsticated metadata+title combination?

[Nelson Carranza]

Hi R Nir,

This will work. if the pages are in the same space. the body must be a comma-separate list of titles

## @noparams
#set($list = $body.split(','))
#foreach($link in $list)
<p>
<ac:link>
<ri:page ri:content-title="$link"/>
</ac:link>
</p>
#end

Regards

Nelson

[Rina Nir]

Thankyou for the quick response, it does the work. . Is there a way to achieve the same if the body is not a comma seperated list but the above structured html?