Release Notes

Create Issue Automation Macro (Pro)

• With the PTC Create Issue Automation Macro you can easily create Jira issues when you instantiate a template with the PTC, for more information visit PTCC Create Issue Automation Macro (PRO)

Template Macro

• With the PTC Template macro you are able to easily create a new template for the new PTC Create Pages from the Templates dialog that can be found in the Navigation → Apps section, for more information visit PTCC Template Macro

Maintenance

• Searchable options for placeholder type dropdown

• optimized target space permission check

Maintenance

• Optimized settings endpoints performance

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed bug where the instantiation of templates with drafts or archived pages failed

• Fixed encoding issue of page titles with special characters

Maintenance

• Optimised permission endpoints performance

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed bug where trees with more then 25 pages were not fully copied

Jira Legacy Macro Creator (Pro)

• The Jira Legacy Macro Creator will get replaced with a Confluence Jira Legacy Macro to get and display issues according to the configuration of the Jira Legacy Macro Creator in your source page , for more information visit PTCC Jira Legacy Macro Creator (PRO)

Jira Legacy Query Placeholder (Experimental)

• Add a placeholder and use a query as its value to replace it with a Confluence Jira Legacy Macro, visit Placeholder Formats for a more detailed explanation

Template Page Macro (Pro)

• Add optional page specific template configurations such as custom page title or custom page restrictions, for more details please go to: PTCC Template Page Macro (PRO)

Maintenance

• Improved look & feel (more usage of Atlassian components)

• Added copy functionality for source/target page fields in create button macros

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed copying of confluence templates

• Fixed creation functionality for exempted spaces

• Fixed wrongly enabled buttons

Smaller features

• Compatibility of page placeholder type in default value macro

Maintenance

• Smaller UI improvements

Fixed Bugs

• Links in the default value macro are now clickable

• Fixed copying attachments when none are present

• Fixed exempt view permission when the source is @self

Fixed Bugs

• User search in replacement dialog not working

• Counters didn’t consider placeholder tags

Counters

Counters allow you to have a placeholder automatically replaced by the value of a running counter.

Smaller features

• @parent can be used to select the parent of the current page

• Added possibility to hide page title prefix in wizard

• Added possibility to copy page favorite

• Some UI improvements

Fixed Bugs

• Multi user placeholder does not find all users

• Multi Button Macro renders empty dialog

Smaller features

• Added placeholder type page

• Added Multi-User option in the placeholder configuration

• Placeholder support in the source selection

• UI/UX Improvements

Fixed Bugs

• Link placeholder in default value macro isn’t working as expected

• Multiline placeholder in default value macro isn’t working as expected

Wizard Customization through Buttons

• Create Space and Create Page Tree Button editors are split up into two tabs

• The General tab is responsible for what is to be copied

• The Customize Wizard tab is responsible for what is displayed in the Wizard

Wizard Improvements

• Create Space and Create Page Tree Wizards will skip all empty dialogs

• Placeholder Replacement screen will only show up if there are placeholders to be replaced

• Page Selection screen will only show up if a tree is selected as source, not for single pages

• New wizard end-screen that lets you choose whether you want to go to the created page or stay on the current page

Easy Dropdown Menu Compatibility ( EDM)

• Full Easy Dropdown Menu compatibility with placeholders through new placeholder type: Advanced Dropdown (EDM)

Fixed Bugs

• Hide Disabled Button was wrongly hiding the button in edit mode of the page instead of only in view mode

• Pages from exempt view spaces were not selectable as source pages for all users

• Links in the general settings were broken

• Automated space key generation sometimes generated duplicated space keys

• Copy options were only shown in the wizard if they were not set to the default value

• Label placeholders always showed up in the wizard even if not wanted

• Macro migration failed to set correct page id’s in source and target field of buttons

• Confluence links on pages were sometimes breaking after copying a page tree

• Special Letters â, ê, î, ô, û … were not shown correctly if they were written in a dropdown option of the placeholder configuration macro

Smaller features

• Remove border around buttons in the edit mode

Fixed Bugs

• Excerpt Include Macro breaks after copying

• Macros didn’t hide completely if so configured

Cascaded Placeholders

• Allows users to create templates for templates by enclosing placeholders in multiple layers of placeholder markers

• See Cascaded Placeholders for more information

Placeholder Configuration Macro in source ancestor hierarchy

• Add placeholder configuration macro on the parent page and it will automatically work for all children as well

Smaller features

• Added copy restrictions option

• Added copy labels option

Fixed Bugs

• Page title collision doesn’t work in multiple cases

• Server to Cloud migration of the placeholder configuration macro didn’t correctly migrate the format-id parameter of older PTC Server versions

• Incorrect validation and error message displaying

• Blank target isn’t working as @self

• Special characters in placeholders break the replacing

• Links not working with default value macro

• Incorrect date calculation

Compatibility with Excerpt and Excerpt Include macros

Internationalization

• Support german and english translations

Added accepted values for target page

• empty target page

• @self can be used for target page

Fixed Bugs

• Issues with permission handling

• Default value macro doesn’t work with user picker

• Page references weren’t updated after copying

• Page title resolution doesn’t work for titles with suffixes

• Multiple server to cloud migration issues

  • Wrong macro migration mapping for button, default value & placeholder configuration macros

  • Flawed saving of migration progress

  • Placeholders in macro parameters weren’t found

Smaller features

• UI improvements (when going back a step in wizard don’t lose filled in values, styling)

• Added watch pages option

• Math in date placeholders

• User type placeholder

EDM Compatibility

• Copy EDM space sets from source space when instantiating new space

Multi button macro

Migration path from server to cloud (version 1)

• Automated path with Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant

  • Macro migration in pages and templates

  • Placeholder migration in pages and templates

  • Automated settings migration from server to cloud

• Settings can also be manually exported for import in Cloud

Fixed Bugs

• Issues with permission handling

• Not all intended date formats worked in the default value macro

• Date placeholder breaks newly crested page if empty

• No error message if placeholder in title is empty

• Placeholders in code snipped macros didn’t work as intended

Smaller features

• Autogenerate a unique space key

• Regex placeholder

Settings features

• Template sticker

• User becomes admin

• Exempt create space permission

• Exempt view

Button macro features

• Macro preview

• Copy space favorite

• Copy space permissions

• Copy page templates

• Copy attachments

• Hide disabled button

• Permitted groups

Placeholder configuration macro

Fixed Bugs

• Issues with page title resolution

• Label placeholder doesn’t work correctly

• Default target space key gets removed when typing new space name

• Security settings won’t load if a deleted space is still specified

• Placeholders in links aren’t recognized

• Not correct order in page selection screen

Smaller features

• Split up configuration page in general and security settings

• Page selection screen

• Added copy without replacing option

• Added copy space labels option

Ignore placeholder macro

Default value macro

Fixed Bugs

• Placeholders with special characters don’t work

• Date placeholders in titles don’t work correctly