Looking for Detailed User Documentation on "Insert More Content"

[Craig Senior]

I'm looking for user documentation on the page editing function Insert more content. Without creating a sandbox page, I'd like to know what each content type does and how to use it. Looking at it now, it looks like the term changes, mid-stream, from content to macro, so I might be looking for documentation on macros.

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

The "+" menu in the tool bar is a collection of page editing features and macros that Atlassian includes in the editor, but that don't really fit in the editor bar. My hunch is they were put there to save space as to try and put them all in the editor bar would make the bar really long and possibly have issues on smaller screens.

As for macros ... this is how I explain macros to my users. You can think of macros are really cool things that Confluence can do. All sorts of cool things. It's really just as simple as that. It sounds complicated but really they are just features of the editor that allow you to create compelling content easily. Confluence has a bunch of built-in macros but they also have a marketplace where you can purchase apps to extend the editing experience and add more macros. Some examples of some pretty common macro uses that I have seen in our environment would be the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and PDF macros. The macros allow you to take and attached document of those document types and display them on a Confluence page as if the content were really on the page. It's not. It's still in the PDF/DOC/XLS/PPT but you can render it directly to the page.

Another example would be the panel macro. It allows you to create a outlined panel on your page that has a title bar and a body section to put content into. Below are some screenshots of what some of these macros look like in edit and in view mode. Also, one thing to note is at the bottom of the "+" menu there is a link to the macro browser that shows you a list of all the macros installed on your system with descriptions about what they do.

Panel Macro

Word Macro

[Craig Senior]

Thanks Davin. I was about to say that I'm after one layer of detail lower, but your example of Panel turns out to be exactly what I needed, among others.

[Davin Studer]

I'm glad it helped.

[Craig Senior]

I did wind up creating a Sandbox page and adding one of every content type and macro, a one-time investment that I hope will payoff with on-going efficiencies, not having to wonder what to pick.