Our development team has posted an internal blog on the latest Scaffolding Plugin internal builds of the Scaffolding plugin and we wanted to share some further information to the community on our progress. We are expecting the Reporting plugin to be released for beta this week as well.
A gentle reminder that until Jan 31, you can get 40% off the already discounted price of Scaffolding when you also buy Reporting and Composition Plugin! Customers pre-purchasing will get access to the beta. If you would also like access to the beta, you can sign up at our Get Satisfaction community.
Here's the update:
One of our most popular Confluence plugins, the Scaffolding plugin, is now in the progress of getting a makeover for its debut in Confluence 4 and I am proud to announce that we are now approaching a beta release that people can try out, from a progress point of view, we have updated the basic functionality upgrade of the following macros:
- Text Data
- Number Data
- Date Data
- Get Data
- Eval Data
In addition to this, we have also completely revamped the editing experience to have full integration with the Confluence 4 Rich Text Editor to take advantage of the new features that were introduced in Confluence 4.
There are a number of items that we are currently working on before the beta is released, the main items include:
- Adding the validation options from the previous versions to the data macros mentioned above
- Adding in permissions to allow administrators to control who can edit scaffolding pages and who can edit the scaffolding templates
- Adding in the ability to preview the page before saving
- Adding support for Live Templates
- Fixing some compatibility issues with the Rich Text Editor
Here is a sneak peek of what the new version will look like:
Edit Page
Edit Scaffolding Data within the Page
View the Completed Page
Note that to make our fields stand out, the editable sections are displayed as white boxes and the non-editable sections are grayed out, we have also added icons to each of the editable sections to help identify what type of field it is.
We are currently aiming for a beta release in the upcoming weeks - so stay tuned! You can log comments & suggestions on our Get Satisfaction Scaffolding Community
