This guidance will help you to update the Page Tree Creator from version 4 to version 5
The big differences are:
New Features
Multiple Template Spaces
Add as many template spaces as desired
New Categories
Categories are used in template spaces to help organize the templates
New Create Dialog
Instead of a replacement form
Tag Description Macro
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New field to select a separator for displaying multiple dropdown entries after instantiation.
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New format Regex with a pattern field to match the tag
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New textbox Info
PTC Button Macro
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Renamed Hide Select a new destination to Fixed Target
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Renamed Show Page Selection to Page Selection
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New checkbox Resolve Page Titles to forbid duplicate page titles
Changes
Migrate Templates
Templates have to be located in a template space ( Migrate your templates)
Consecutive Tags
Simplified functionality to only counting up after each instantiation
e.g. 001 → 002 → 003...
General Configuration
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Simplified General PTC Configuration
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New second configuration: "Template Spaces"
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Don't forget to check if your configuration are still correct after the update
Migrate your templates
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Create a new template space ( How to create a Template Space)
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Set up some categories if needed ( How to create a new Category)
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Got to your old template space and move every template individually ( How to create a new template from an old one)
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Move global templates
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Move templates for space
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Migrate tag formats
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Remove the tag format marker: __%uUser__ → __User__
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Add a tag description macro for tag __User__ with format "User"
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Remove the cascade tags: ____cascade____ → __cascade__
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General Configuration
Version 4 |
Version 5 |
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Tag Markers |
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Tag Format Marker |
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Use the PTC tag description macro to give a tag a special format |
Page prefix |
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Suffix instead of prefix, when duplicate page title e.g. "page title" → "page title (1)" |
Template Sticker |
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Hide Tag Markers |
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Tag markers are always hidden in the replace dialog |
Use Comala Workflow |
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Show PTC logo and description |
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No more PTC logo or description in the dialog |
Show context menu |
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Renamed to Show Copy Page Tree |
Icon in context menu |
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Renamed to Show Icons in Page Tools |
Confluence Create Dialog |
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Each template can be configured to be shown in the Create dialog individually |
Use Template Space |
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Templates have to be in a template space |
Template Space Key |
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Second PTC configuration: Template Spaces Multiple template spaces are now possible |
Template Groups |
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User with Create Page Permission on a template space can create new
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Permitted Spaces |
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Not supported anymore, replaced with concept of multiple template spaces |
Special Users |
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Not supported anymore, replaced with concept of multiple template spaces |
Special Groups |
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Not supported anymore, replaced with concept of multiple template spaces |
Deprecated Functionality
Tag Format Marker
__%uUser__ is not supported anymore → Use the PTC tag description macro instead