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The basic metadata macro allows the attachment of a single piece of metadata to a page.

This allows a single metadata value stored on an individual page to be referenced from other pages (see the space-metadata macro for the equivalent functionality for spaces).

Parameters

Parameter

Required

Default

Notes

Version

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This is the name given to the added metadata.

  • the metadata name is case sensitive


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false

  • true – metadata value is not displayed on current page

  • false – metadata value is displayed on current page

Info
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The option to hide or display the metadata value affects only the page that contains the metadata macro. It does not affect any pages where the metadata is reused.


Usage

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To add a single piece of metadata to a page, choose the Metadata (Metadata Plugin) macro in the Confluence macro browser:

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Simply add your chosen metadata name to the macro editor e.g. Owner. This metadata name will be case sensitive.

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Insert the macro to the page.

Add the value of the metadata to the metadata macro placeholder.

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To see the page display, choose the placeholder Edit option.

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The added metadata value is now displayed in the macro editor Preview.

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The metadata macro body accepts both plain text and simple wiki markup for the value.

The metadata is stored as un-rendered wiki markup, so in this case the value |Captain Comala| is stored for the Owner metadata. The wiki markup will create a cell in a table containing the text value of the metadata, Owner.

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If you don't want the metadata value displayed on this page, simply check the Hidden option in the macro editor. 

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This only hides the metadata value on the current page. It will not affect the visibility on any pages where the metadata is reused.

When using the macro to set a metadata that is a date and time, Confluence search and CQL will return the value as a string value unless the metadata value is added in the following format yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS.

  • for example, creating a metadata End Date with a value of Dec 2023 or 08/09/2024 will be returned as a string value and is not recognized as a date format value

You can add the individual metadata from this page onto another page, for example, using the metadata-from macro or one of the report macros.

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