Aura Cards (Cloud)

The Aura Cards macro allows you to create up to six content boxes (cards) that are automatically organized by columns and rows to display your content in a more attractive, easy to read, and organized way.

Each card's content, link, color, and icon can be customized independently with Aura's powerful and intuitive configuration dialog. Even inexperienced users can create beautiful Cards and easily customize those to suit their needs.

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Please follow these steps to insert an Aura Cards macro on a Confluence Page:

  • Go to the Confluence page you wish to edit

  • Click on the Edit button of the Confluence page or press E

  • In the page editor, click on the + button (Insert More Content) and select Other macros

  • Select the Aura Cards macro from the provided list, and the configuration dialog appears

 

 

 

The configuration dialog helps users to create cards that suit their needs and the live preview shows the result in realtime.

All parameters are organized into two tabs and a live preview:

  1. General

    • All parameters inside the General tab have an impact on all cards inside that macro and control the overall design & layout.

  2. Content

    • All parameters inside the Content tab have an impact on a single selected card and are all about the content inside that card.

  3. Live Preview

    • The live preview is interactive and important for selecting cards (see Content Tab) and creating new cards

The available parameters are described in detail below.

After the configuration is done click Save and the Aura - Cards will be visible on your Confluence page. Clicking on Close will abort the configuration and the inserting of the macro.

All parameters inside the General tab have an impact on all cards inside that macro and control the overall design & layout.

Alignment

Choose from different alignment options, that will change how the text inside the cards will be aligned.

Card Type

Choose whether your cards should consist of text, icons with text or images with text.

Columns

Select how many columns should be created.

Design

Select from various designs, that will have massive impact on the overall design of your cards.

Hover Effect

Select a hover effect for all of your cards.

Margin between cards

Choose a suitable margin between the cards.

Padding inside cards

Choose a suitable padding inside the cards.

Full width of parent

Choose how the width of the cards should behave

 

First select a card you wish to edit. Then customize it as you like.

All parameters inside the Content tab have impact on a single selected card and are all about the content inside that card.

Configuration options in the content tab are changing depending on the previously selected Card Type (for example, you can only select an image for the Card Type Image).

Title

Enter a title for your card

Content

Enter more text here

Color

  • Choose from predesigned color palettes (provided by Administrators) that suit your needs.

  • Each color palette comes with a set of up to 18 different colors that for example will match the companys brands and corporate identity.

  • Click on a color box to apply the color to the button.

  • An applied color box is highlighted with a white frame and a white circle.

Clicking on Add Link will open up the Insert Link dialog where users are able to provide a hyperlink to a…

  • …Confluence page,

  • Confluence blog,

  • Confluence attachment,

  • e-mail address,

  • website,

  • or any other internet address.

The Insert Link dialog is separated into several parts:

  1. Search - Searches for Confluence pages, blogs and attachments in specific Confluence spaces

  2. Recently viewed  - Displays all recently viewed Confluence pages, blogs and attachments

  3. Attachment - Displays all attachments. Use the space filter to get less results

  4. Web - Insert an e-mail address, website or any other internet address

Remove a link by hovering above the link field and clicking on the x button on the right.

Move

Reorder your cards

Icon

  • Filter the icon list by using words that match your use case

  • The icon list displays all available icons that can be used for your cards.

  • The icon list is also scrollable in case you want to search visually for a suitable icon.

Image

Click on the Add Image button to open up the 'Image Sidebar'. Choose from one of three options presented as tabs:

  • Aura Images, Attachments or Direct Link

Aura Images

All images are provided by unsplash.com and can be used freely. Find out more about the licence here.

Add image

  • To add an image to your Card simply click on an image.

Search & filter

  • Search field: Enter the desired term

  • Orientation: Choose Landscape, Portrait or Square

  • Color: Choose whether your image should be ‘Black and white’ or a specific color

Attachments

Either use an image that has already been attached to a Confluence page or upload a new image onto the current page.

Use already attached image

  • Search field: Enter the name of the image

  • Filter dropdown: Specify where the image should be searched

  • Table: All images matching the search are displayed in the table. Hover on image titles for a preview. Click on an image title to select it.

Upload and use new image

  • Users can either upload a new image via drag and drop or by clicking into the 'Upload attachment' box.

  • The uploaded image is automatically set in the Cards macro.

 

Direct Link

Enter a link to an image.

 

Delete Card

Click this button to delete the selected card

 

 

 

The live preview is interactive and important for selecting cards (see Content Tab) and creating new cards

Create a new card

  • In order to create a new card click on the dashed, grey box with a + inside

 

 

Please follow these steps to edit or remove the Aura macro on a Confluence Page:

  • Go to the Confluence page you wish to edit

  • Click on the Edit button of the Confluence page or press "E"

  • Click on the Aura macro you wish to edit or remove

  • A small dialog with the options Edit and Remove appears

  • Click on the desired action