Remote documents allow to select the content of the document to be rendered. A remote controlled document uses macros that expose some or all of their parameters to be controlled by query parameters provided with the HTTP request.

This feature is useful for use cases where the content of a page should be controlled by an external information system. A typical use case is to aggregate a page based on an error code. The remote system can reference a remote controlled document on a Confluence server and select the information by providing the error code and some context information.