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Explains the differences between and commonalities of the Confluence Page Properties and the projectdoc Toolbox Document Properties.
This is a comparison between page and document properties. Users of Confluence learn the difference between and commonalities of
- page properties provided by Confluence macros and
- document properties supported by projecdoc Toolbox macros.
We refer to Confluence 5.9 and the projectdoc Toolbox 1.10 for our discussion.
Summary
Page properties are easy to use, but up to version 5.7 of Confluence provide limited capabilities to select and display the properties. While document properties provide some additional features, people my consider specifying the where clause to constrain the search result as complicated.
If page properties is providing all you'll ever ask for, you should stay with it: it is free and is part of every Confluence installation.
If you are asking for more and paying for additional features that make you more productive is not a problem for you, check out document properties.
The following table lists features that are related to one of the macros discussed, but are implemented by different macros. In this case the macro providing the feature is listed. No extra cost is involved to use the mentioned macros, since all these macros are either part of Confluence or the projectdoc Toolbox Add-on.
Before you start
We suppose that you know Confluence and its basic concepts.
References
More information on the macros discussed can be found at the following locations.
- Confluence 5.8+ Page Properties
- Confluence 5.7- Page Properties
- Confluence 4 Metadata
- projectdoc Document Properties
- Document Properties Marker Macro - a table containing document properties. Three columns: name, value and meta data (aka controls) to a property.
- Display Table Macro - lists references to projectdoc documents in a table. Allows to select document properties for columns. Also non-list representations are provided.