Macro presets

Templates are ours; presets are yours. A preset is a complete macro configuration, built in the macro's usual configuration form and saved for everybody to start from.

Cards macro with the Presets menu open, listing built in presets, the organisation preset Team Cards and the personal preset Personal Intro — Every macro has a Presets button. The menu behind it keeps what Capable ships (Built-in) apart from what your organisation and you have saved.

This is how you make a house style stick without writing a style guide nobody reads.

#The rules

How many	Up to ten per macro
Which macros	Twenty macros support presets, opt-in per macro
A default	One preset per macro can be the default new macros start from
Who	A Confluence administrator, from the Formatting settings
How they are authored	In the macro's usual configuration screen, which opens in a pop-up window

Setting a default preset is the powerful part. Every new macro of that type starts from your configuration rather than ours, which means people get the house style without being told about it.

Presets page in the Macros app showing an organisation preset called Team Cards with three image cards, ready to insert — Presets your organisation has saved are gathered on the Presets page in the Macros app, ready to insert.

#A few things worth knowing

Presets are per macro, so rolling out a house style means doing the macros people actually use rather than all twenty.
Changing a preset does not change macros already placed on pages.
Presets and templates appear in the same part of the configuration panel, which takes a moment to get used to.

Starter templates

The ones we ship.

Brand and colour

The other consistency lever.

Administration

Where presets are managed.

Ours are templates. Yours are presets.