I'd say that there is mistake in Steven Behnke's comment above.
He said that

Space Template do NOT have this problem

but really Space Template has this problem too.
You can't use Create From Template macro in both, Global and Space Templates.

And yes, copy/paste does the job.
And strange why Atlassian coudn't fix this bug for years.

Well done Steven, wish I'd spotted your comment before I was just about to post a similar work around

I propose this be addressed as a bug or at least looked into more quickly as this is irregular and feels like unexpected behavior.

Bug

It appears that the issue here is that when you are in a Global Template edit action (I am SPECIFIC here because Space Template Edit actions do NOT have this problem), the macro parameters do not load correctly. Please inspect my screenshot.

Workaround

• Add the macro on an actual page draft
• Modify the macro parameters as desired
• Use your system copy (CTRL+C/CMD+C) to copy your macro from your page draft
• Use your system paste (CTRL+V/CMD+V) to paste your macro into your global template

The macro (storage format) will be pasted into the editor with it's parameters intact.
Working example

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="create-from-template">
<ac:parameter ac:name="createResult">edit</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="blueprintModuleCompleteKey">com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-software-blueprints:jirareports-blueprint</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="contentBlueprintId">51826ad4-03d5-47cd-b161-712c778c8e09</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="buttonLabel">Create from template</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="templateName">51826ad4-03d5-47cd-b161-712c778c8e09</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>

Bugged example

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="create-from-template">
<ac:parameter ac:name="buttonLabel">Create from template</ac:parameter></ac:structured-macro>

I confirm the above comment (Fabrizio Galletti 10/Oct/14)
You can prepare the button on a standard page and copy-paste it to Global Template.
Of course you won't be able to change the parameters of the button on the Global Template page, but it will work as expected.

I've used it, with copy and paste from a standard page if i remember well

Any luck with making this happen?

I would love to use this feature as well.

I would like the feature too. Now I have to create the same template for each space, which also means a lot of maintenance. For every small change on the template I have to do it in every space where it is used. So being able to use the Create from template button in a global template would help a lot.

Hi Natasha,

yes thats correct understood.
I want to build an hirachical requirement document.
My Ideas is to have a Page "Requirement" which has the global defenitions of an part of the software.
Requirement can have Requirements and additional they can have several "UseCase" documents.

The Ideas is to have a List of the nested Requirements / UseCases in the Requirement page. And below this Lists I want to have an Button "Create new Requirement" or "Create new UseCase". For that I want to have this Button in an Template.

Req1

• Req2 <- A button to create a new Page as child document from a template
  • UseCase 1
  • ...

Perhaps there are more use cases where it would improve the creation of hirachical documents.

Hope my explanation is understandable.
Otherwise feel free to ask for more informations.

Best regards
Heiko

Hi Heiko,

If I understand it correctly, you are trying to use the "Insert from Template" macro while you are IN a global template (essentially adding the ability for a user to invoke another create-by-template after creating a page by (global) template).

If this is accurate, can you give me an example of what you'd want to do this for? Just trying to better understand your use case here. Also, it seems like your workaround (as you mention) is to add the button to each page that is created by the global template.

Thanks,
Natasha Prasad
Confluence Product Manager