Can we create an action form in a Confluence page?

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hi everyone,

I would like to create an action form in one of my company's Confluence pages, where a client may fill in a few input fields, and then press "Submit". Upon submit, an http POST request would be performed, to a certain URL with a few parameters built from the form fields.

Is this possible at all in Confluence. Is there any documentation I can have a look at about this, or could you maybe provide me with instructions about how I could possibly achieve this?

Thanks a lot!

Eduardo

[Eduardo Mendes · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the contributions. After analyzing pros & cons, I have decided for a different alternative. Since the site I want to submit to is a JIRA instance, I will use its REST API.

It also looks like you can create a simple html form in any confluence page, and include it in an html macro, to achieve this.

[Alexander Schermann]

looks like?

[tousifs]

Hi Mendes,

I have similar line of requirement where i have created macro which was holding the page and it has .vm ui display where i have given action and able to achive customized requirement.

you can also achive the same way.

Regards,

tousif shaikh

[Eduardo Mendes]

Thanks Tousif. Do you think you could send me an example of this?

[tousifs]

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/XWork-WebWork+Module

please refer above link.

[Bob Swift]

Run Plugin for Confluence can provide the form and for the body of the macro you may need to use html or a script (Script Plugin for Confluence) depending on what you want to do. Use insert wiki markup for the run macro.

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the feedback. I have installed the Run Plugin for Confluence v3.0.0, and entered the 30-day license key. My Plugin Manager (I am using Confluence 4.2.8) tells me the Plugin is enabled.

However, when editing any Confluence page, I do not find a way to insert this plugin. e.g. if I start typing '{ru' the autocomplete does not find any matches, and neither if I go directly to the macro browser.

Could I be missing a particular setup step? Or could it be that the Confluence version I am running is not supported?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards,

Eduardo

[Eduardo Mendes]

Thanks for the feedback. Do you think you could send me a small configuration example, about how I could do the following: Upon clicking on the 'Run' button, the following url post request would be made -> http://www.myapp.com/index.jsp&priority=high

Where 'high' would be read from an input field of the form created.

If this macro can do this, then my company will definitely buy a license for it. I just wanted to be sure it will do what we need, before purchasing.

[Bob Swift]

I think you would need something similar to the following translated to groovy from https://discursive.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CJCOOK/Making+an+HTTP+POST+Request:

{run:replace=priority:high:Priority of request}

{groovy}
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod
HttpClient client = new HttpClient()
        
def url = "http://wwww.myapp.com"

// Create POST method
def method = new PostMethod(url)

// Set parameters on POST    
method.setParameter("priority", "$priority")  // <---- run macro will substitute in here

// Execute and print response
try {
    client.executeMethod(method)
    String response = method.getResponseBodyAsString()
    out.println(response)
} catch(Exception exception) {
    out.println(exception.toString())
} finally {
    method.releaseConnection()
}
{groovy}

{run}