For this example we assume that the author creates a Topic document.

Add a new property called 'Status' to the document by adding a line to the properties table (within the Document Properties Marker Macro). Use the Name List Macro as a value to the property.

Open the macro editor for the Name List Macro and set the following parameters:

You may also limit the search for valid values on specific spaces. Please refer to delegate-space Delegate Space for more information on how to use delegate spaces to define common information that applied to all delegating spaces.

If you save the page, you'll see ... nothing!?!

That is because we just have defined a property and a valid range of values, but actually did not select one. Properties without a value are not shown by default (to not clutter the view with non-information).

The template author may select one as default, which would be 'Open' in this example or leave the selection completely to the author. See Select a Value for details.

Specifying a property value for a class of documents is typically resolved by the creation of a blueprint.

In this case the template author adds the property with the configured Name List Macro to the table of properties using the Storage Format syntax.

<tr>
  <th>Status</th>
  <td>
    <ac:structured-macro ac:name="projectdoc-name-list">
      <ac:parameter ac:name="doctype">tag</ac:parameter>
      <ac:parameter ac:name="property">Status</ac:parameter>
      <ac:parameter ac:name="where">$&lt;Parent&gt;=[Status]</ac:parameter>
      <ac:parameter ac:name="empty-as-none">false</ac:parameter>
    </ac:structured-macro>
 </td>
 <td> </td>
</tr>