Add Placeholders

You can reference metadata in your exports by adding placeholders to your Word templates. During export, Scroll Word Exporter replaces the placeholders with metadata from Confluence, such as the page creator’s name or email address.

How to use placeholders

Simply add the placeholder (displayed in the 'Placeholder' column in the table below) into your Word template. Upon export the placeholder will be replaced by the data that the placeholder references.

Available placeholders

	Placeholder	Description
Page info	$scroll.title	The title of the exported root page.
	$scroll.version	The version of the exported root page.
	$scroll.creator	The creator of the exported root page.
	$scroll.creator.name	The account name of the creator of the exported root page.
	$scroll.creator.fullName	The full name of the creator of the exported root page.
	$scroll.creator.email	The email of the creator of the exported root page.
	$scroll.pageid	The page ID of the exported root page.
	$scroll.pageurl	The URL of the exported root page.
	$scroll.tinyurl	The tiny URL of the exported root page.
	$scroll.creationdate	The creation date of the exported root page. You can apply SimpleDateFormat on the date by appending .(FORMATTING-EXPRESSION). For example $scroll.creationdate.("yyyy-MM-dd") creates a date in the format: 2010-08-27. To avoid interpretation, the placeholder text should be quoted using quotation marks ( ' or ").
	$scroll.modifier	The last modifier of the exported root page.
	$scroll.modifier.name	The last modifier's account name
	$scroll.modifier.fullName	The last modifier's account name
	$scroll.modifier.email	The last modifier's account name
	$scroll.modificationdate	The last modification date of the exported root page. You can apply SimpleDateFormat on the date by appending .(FORMATTING-EXPRESSION). For example $scroll.creationdate.("yyyy-MM-dd") creates a date in the format: 2010-08-27. To avoid interpretation, the placeholder text should be quoted using quotation marks ( ' or ").
	$scroll.metadata.(YOUR_METADATA_KEY)	This placeholder can be used to access metadata defined on the root page of your export. This placeholder depends on the Comala Metadata App as a prerequisite. This placeholder is only compatible with the Server and Data Center version of Scroll Word Exporter.
Space info	Placeholder	Description
	$scroll.spacelogo	The space logo of the current space. You can scale the space logo by appending .(HEIGHT, WIDTH). For example $scroll.spacelogo.(200,100) renders the space logo with 200px height and 100px width.
	$scroll.space.key	The spacekey of the current space.
	$scroll.space.name	The name of the current space.
	$scroll.space.url	The URL of the current space.
Export info	Placeholder	Description
	$scroll.content	The full content of the export. This placeholder should only be used once in a template, as it defines where in the template the Confluence content should be exported, which is important if you have defined static pages like a title page, or a table of contents.
	$scroll.exporter	The user who exported the export.
	$scroll.exporter.name	Exporter's account name.
	$scroll.exporter.fullName	Exporter's account name.
	$scroll.exporter.email	Exporter's account name.
	$scroll.exportdate	The date of the export. You can apply SimpleDateFormat on the date by appending .(FORMATTING-EXPRESSION). For example $scroll.creationdate.("yyyy-MM-dd") creates a date in the format: 2010-08-27. To avoid interpretation, the placeholder text should be quoted using quotation marks ( ' or ").
	$scroll.globallogo	The global logo of the Confluence system.
	$adhocState (server only)	The state of the export root page taken from Comala Document Management. Possible values: 'DRAFT', 'PUBLISHED' or `null` (if there are no Comala Workflows in this space). You may want to use `$!adhocState` to avoid '`null`' printouts. This placeholder is only compatible with the server version of Scroll Word Exporter.
	$scroll.template.name	Prints the name of the export template used for the export
	$scroll.template.modificationdate	Prints the last modification date of the export template used.
Page content	Placeholder	Description
Page content	$scroll.includepage.(pagename) $scroll.includepage.(SPACEKEY:pagename) $scroll.includepage.(pageid)	The content of a specific page.

Scroll Document placeholders

If you are using Scroll Documents you can use the following placeholders in your template:

Placeholder	Description	Settings
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,document-id)	Displays the ID of the exported document	To define fallback text (if the exported document ID is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,document-id, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,document-title)	Displays the title of the exported Scroll Document	To define fallback text (if the exported document title is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,document-title, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,variant-name)	Displays the name of the exported variant	The use of variants in Scroll Documents requires an extension app, Variants for Scroll Documents To define fallback text (if the variant name is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,variant-name, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,language-name)	Displays the language of the exported version	The use of translation in Scroll Documents requires an extension app, Translations for Scroll Documents To define fallback text (if the translation is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,language-name, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,language-code)	Displays the language code of the exported version	The use of translation in Scroll Documents requires an extension app, Translations for Scroll Documents To define fallback text (if the translation is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,language-code, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,version-name)	Displays the name of the exported version	To define fallback text (if the version name is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,version-name, "Fallback text")
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-creation-date,"fallback text", "add-date-format")	Displays the creation date of the Scroll Document	You need to apply add a fallback text and a date formatting expression for the placeholder. For example: `$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-creation-date, "my fallback text", "d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss")` creates a date in the format: 2 May 2022 13:22:50 `$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-creation-date, "my fallback text", "d MMM yyyy")` creates a date in the format: 2 May 2022 `$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-creation-date, "my fallback text", "yyyy MMM d")` creates a date in the format: 2022 May 2
$scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-status, "Fallback text")	Displays the status of the exported version	To define fallback text (if the version status is unavailable), simply the change the text in bold: $scroll.custom.(k15t-scroll-document-versions-for-confluence,instance-status, "Fallback text")

Customize your own placeholders

Interested in 3rd-party placeholder support?

Scroll Word Exporter also supports 3rd-party placeholders through a Velocity based API - read more here

You can also customize your own placeholders in your template:

Use page properties as placeholders

You can use the Confluence Page Properties macro to define customized text placeholders in your exports. To use page properties as placeholders you need to:

create page properties on your Confluence page
insert a page property placeholder into your Word template

Step 1: Create page properties

To start, you need to create the page properties to be used as placeholders.

Navigate to your export's root page (because page properties are always taken from the export root page)
Insert a Page Properties macro on the page
Add a two-column table into the macro body, with the left column containing the keys (i.e. the page property names), and the right column containing the corresponding page property values. The added table should contain a left header column for the keys like this:
Key#1 Value#1
Key#2 Value#2

Step 2: Define your page property placeholder

Now you can use the content that you defined in the Page Properties macro as a placeholder in your export.

Open your Word template and insert a Page Property placeholder using the following style: $scroll.pageproperty.(page-property-key)
Enter the name of the page property key (defined on your Confluence page), after a full stop in brackets. The placeholders are case-sensitive.
e.g. The key User would be written as $scroll.pageproperty .(User)
Save and upload you Word template to Confluence

After following these steps, the corresponding page property value will be added to your export.

Using multiple page property macros?

If you insert multiple page property macros on the root page, you have to assign an ID to each Page Properties macro, so you can differentiate between them when referring to them in your Word template. For example, ID 123.

You then have to refer to this ID via the placeholder in your Word template – for example: $scroll.pageproperty.(User,123)

Page property placeholder parameters

The page property placeholder has a number of different parameters that can be defined in the placeholder text to define the export result. The table displays the possible combinations for the parameters that can be used:

Parameters	Description	Placeholder example
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro on the export root page	$scroll.pageproperty.(test)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,fallback-enabled)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will check for the key on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text true	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,true)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,fallback-disabled)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will not be enabled to check for the key on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text false	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,false)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,macro-id)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro with the specific macro ID on the export root page	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,macro1)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,fallback-enabled,alternate-text)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will check for the key on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text true If no page property key is defined on the space homepage, alternate text will be rendered in the export instead	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,true,no content included)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,fallback-disabled,alternate-text)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will not check for the key on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text false If no page property key is defined on the export root page, alternate text will be rendered in the export instead	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,false,no content included)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,macro-id,fallback-enabled)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro with the specific macro ID on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will check for the key with the specific macro ID on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text true	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,macro1,true)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,macro-id,fallback-disabled)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro with the specific macro ID on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will not check for the key with the specific macro ID on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text false	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,macro1,false)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,macro-id,fallback-enabled,alternate-text)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro with the specific macro ID on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will check for the key with the specific macro ID on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text true If no page property key is defined with the specific macro ID on the space homepage, alternate text will be rendered in the export instead	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,macro1,true,no content included)
$scroll.pageproperty.(PP-key,macro-id,fallback-disabled,alternate-text)	Renders the value from the defined key in the page property macro with the specific macro ID on the export root page If no page property key is defined on the export root page, a fallback mechanism will not check for the key with the specific macro ID on the Scroll Document root page or space home page when defining the text false If no page property key is defined with the specific macro ID on the export rootpage, alternate text will be rendered in the export instead	$scroll.pageproperty.(test,macro1,false,no content included)

Key#1	Value#1
Key#2	Value#2