Confluence drop down v5.4

[Wayne Gasson]

I am trying to create a drop down menu in Confluence, on the older version we were supported by the scaffolding plug-in but now I believe we are getting errors as the plug-in doesn't work on this version.

Where do I start in creating a drop-down menu?

[Stiltsoft Support]

Hello @Wayne Gasson ,

You could have a look at our Handy Macros for Confluence app. Handy Status, one of its macros, can be used to create status sets with unlimited custom options. You can switch the chosen variant whenever you need it in the page view mode.

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

Ok, to make it short, you then will need to write a plugin.

Read this:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Writing+Confluence+Plugins

and take a look on this tutorials:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Tutorials

In detail, you need.

• a macro with your markup
• a web resource module with a little javascript magic
• a xwork action to handle the ajax request from your dropdown choice
• a component for your service class

Or, if thats all static, you will only need the macro and components module.

[Wayne Gasson]

ok I'll take a look at the links.... and get back to you :) wish me luck!

[Wayne Gasson]

Hi Steve,

We are trying to build a report document with up 100+ options in some cases, so I suppose you would call it navigation structure, just not sure where to begin! I must mention we are 2 complete novices that have been thrown in the deep end to learn :)

[Wayne Gasson]

Hi Steve,

We are trying to build a report document with up 100+ options in some cases, so I suppose you would call it navigation structure, just not sure where to begin! I must mention we are 2 complete novices that have been thrown in the deep end to learn :)

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

What is your intention on creating such a dropdown? Contentcreation/manipulation? Some navigation structures?