Important: Forge Migration

We’ve released a major update to Easy Dropdown Menu as part of our move to Atlassian Forge, Atlassian’s modern cloud platform for apps. 🚀

Forge runs apps directly within Atlassian’s infrastructure, which improves security, reliability, and long-term compatibility with future Confluence updates.

Most things will continue to work as before, but some behaviors have changed after the update.
Please review the information below to ensure everything works smoothly in your instance.

EDM Filters and Usage Feature not working after update

If the EDM filters in Page Properties Reports or the Usage feature are not working after a recent update to version 4.0.0, this is caused by a known issue on Atlassian's side: CONFCLOUD-83926

After updating the app, Atlassian needs some time to re-index the content. As a result, EDM filters in Page Properties Reports and the Usage feature may not work immediately.

Please wait around one hour after the update. Once the indexing process is complete, the EDM filters and Usage feature should start working normally again.

Unable to get macro content: Failed to get macro: Error: getNodeWithPosByLocalId()

You will get this error when you try to edit the macro directly in the edit mode of the page after you have converted the Connect macro to Forge. You will get this error flag:

EDM Error Flag | Image

This issue is caused by a known issue on Atlassian’s side: CONFCLOUD-83319

We have found an easier workaround than the one described in the ticket:

After the macro gets converted to Forge wait until the macro is re-rendered. Then cut the macro and paste it again on the page.

Status Macros are showing yellow color with black text

Reindexing

If you have this issue, please run Reindexing once for affected spaces.

Because of a bug from Connect and the changed behavior of how the macros are now working, it can happen that your status dropdown shows the wrong color.
Reindexing fixes this.

Behavior Changes

Macro behavior

The behavior of the macros on pages has changed.
The dropdown value will always be shown based on what is saved in the storage format of the page.

Connect macros (edit mode limitation)

Macros with Connect storage format cannot be changed directly in page edit mode. In order to edit the dropdown in the edit mode of the page you need to update the macro in the macro editor.

When opening a page, you may notice three different loading indicators:

• The larger first loading spinner and the smaller second spinner, both displayed in the center of the macro, are provided by Atlassian. They appear while the page and its macros are being initialized.

Atlassian Loading Spinners | Images

• The third and last spinner which is displayed on the left side of the macro is displayed by our app and reflects the app’s own loading time.

EDM Loading Spinner | Image

We have significantly improved the app’s performance by strengthening the caching mechanism. In rare cases, cached data may need to be refreshed manually. If you experience outdated or unexpected behavior, please use the Session Storage Clear in any macro editor to reset the cache.

Other important information

Macro Migration

The tab where the macro migration is running needs to stay open while it is in progress until it is finished. Otherwise, the macro migration will be aborted.

Reindexing

The tab where the reindexing is running needs to stay open while it is in progress until it is finished.
Otherwise, the macro migration will be aborted. You will now see the last successful reindexing for each space.

Connect Macros

All macros will continue to work as usual, no migration is needed.

CCMA Migration

During the CCMA, the current Cloud settings will be chosen over the imported Server settings.
If you want to change that behavior, you need to use the manual data migration.

CCMA (Confluence version requirement)

The CCMA will only work from Confluence 9 with EDM Version 7.0.8 or higher.
Older Confluence Server versions must use the manual migration.

Configuration location

The placement of the Global and Space Configuration of Easy Dropdown Menu has changed:

• Global configuration → under Apps

• Space configuration → under Integrations

Forge

Macros are not compatible with the legacy editor.

Improvements

• Performance improvements

  • Caching

• UI improvements

  • Settings

  • Macros/Dropdowns

  • Macro editors

• Fixed different issues

Thank you ❤️

Thank you for using Easy Dropdown Menu and for your patience during this transition.
This update is an important step towards a more stable and future-proof app, and it enables upcoming features we’re already working on.

If anything feels unclear or not as expected, don’t hesitate to reach out, we’re here to help.

Need help?

If something looks wrong, doesn’t behave as expected, or you just have a question, feel free to contact us through our Service Desk.

To help us resolve your issue faster, please include:

• steps to reproduce the issue

• relevant information and context

• a short description of what happened

• screenshots or a screen recording (if available)

• the page storage format

• for migration issues: the log files

We’re happy to help 🙂