Confluence Plugin Macro should only be visible to system administators in the Macro Browser

[Tim]

Hi,

I transfered a former user macro to a plugin macro, because I needed additional functionality, which are not possible within just a user macro. As a user macro, I had the option to limit the visibility of the macro to system administrators only in the Macro Browser. How do I achieve this with a plugin macro?

Within the macro definition in my atlassian-plugin.xml, I already tried the following:

• <category name="admin" /> (macro is in this category, but still visible to every user)
• <xhtml-macro hidden="true".... (macro is not visible at all, it doesn't even render when using wiki-markup {myMacro}
• <xhtml-macro showInMacroBrowser="false"... (that is the field name of this setting in the updateusermacro-start.action, no effect)

Any Idea?

[Tim · Accepted solution]

Well, I still don't know how to make a plugin macro only visible to administrators in the macro browser, but I figured out, how to use the attribute hidden="true" in way that works for me.

The setting hidden="true" hides the macro from everyone in the macro browser, the rendering problem, which occured, was due to the fact, that I implemented my plugin only in the xhtml-way:

<xhtml-macro key="mycolour-xhtml"
             name="mycolour" class="com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.xhtml.MyColourMacro" hidden="true">
    <category name="development"/>
    <parameters/>
</xhtml-macro>

after adding also the old style macro definitions to my atlassian-plugin.xml:

<macro key="mycolour"
       name="mycolour" class="com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.xhtml.MyColourMacro" hidden="true">
    <category name="development"/>
    <parameters/>
</macro>

my macro renders now fine using wiki-markup.

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Upgrading+and+Migrating+an+Existing+Confluence+Macro+to+4.0

[Adrian Moerchen]

Unfortunately hidden=true doesn't seem to work (any longer)