Alternatives to Confluence’s Page Properties Macro in Coda?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been exploring ways to replicate something I really like from Confluence: the Page Properties + Page Properties Report macros.

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For those not familiar:

  • In Confluence, the Page Properties macro lets you define metadata at the top of a page (like Project Owner, Status, Due Date, Priority, etc.).

  • The Page Properties Report macro then aggregates those fields from multiple pages into a central table or dashboard — super useful for things like project tracking across a space.

I’m trying to achieve something similar in Coda.

So far I’ve gotten similar results by having a master table of projects and then having subpages with a relation where I manually set the project that the page corresponds to, then create a Cards-view of the master table and filter based on the relation.

I’ve also tried automatically filtering the Cards-view based on the page title, but doesn’t seem like the thisPage object is supported anymore, so can’t get any way of getting the title of the current page.

Are you aware of any better solutions to achieving this structure?

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Is the goal for each project to have it’s own page?

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Hi Markus,

Welcome to the community!!

I would like to suggest that you investigate Coda’s Canvas Column functionality. Think of it as a page-in-a-table.
In the example below you can see my page for a FRICEW specification, with quite a few “page properties”, then a table with open questions, and finally the text where the specification is written. Top right of the image you can see that the layout is the FRICEW layout, but I have different layouts for different types of pages,

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Here is the same canvas column/ page, but making use of the FDD layout:

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Hopefully this will help you somewhat.

Piet

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Yes, though after seeing Piet’s answer, I might have underestimated the power of Canvas, so will explore this as an alternative. Also wasn’t aware you could make the layout on “Expand row” fullscreen, which makes it more as an actual page

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Thank you, Piet - this is great. Wasn’t aware that the Expanded row layout could fill the screen, which makes it like a page-in-a-table, as you say. I think is what I’m looking for. Thanks!

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@Piet_Strydom is indeed one of a GOATs.

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