Run macro only on create or edit

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Hello everyone.
I want to achieve something like this, when user adds {{myMacro}}#BODY{{/myMacro}} to his page, I want to parse text inside tags (#BODY) and return some html in there, but the thing is, I wan’t to do this only when someone is editing or adding new page, not everytime the page is visited. Is it possible to achieve it using custom Macro?

Regards,
Andrew

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Hi, yes, it’s possible and easy to do actually. In your wiki macro (see http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/Tutorials/WritingMacros/WikiMacroTutorial/ for a tutorial) you’ll just need to test for the context action.

For example:

{{velocity}}
...
#if ($xcontext.action == 'edit')
   ... do something...
#else
   ... do something else...
#end
...
{{/velocity}}
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Thank you for quick reply, but I don’t know if we are on the same page.
On ‘edit’ or ‘create’ I want to run macro and save some html produced by it, then on view i wan’t to display this html which was produced before.

So, when one types

{{myMacro}}abcd{{/myMacro}}

And let’s say that myMacro reverse a string, then on page we will see:

dcba

But i wam’t myMacro function to run only once(while creating), not everytime someone is accessing page.

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Ok so indeed we were not talking about the same thing at all :slight_smile:

You cannot really use macros for your need.

What I think would be better:

You can write your listener as a wiki component or as a java component (recommended).

Hope it helps
-Vincent

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Awesome, thank you for your help!