How to add labels to the current page in a self-written user makro?

[stafff95]

I searched a lot, but nothing worked. There are downloadable Makros who manage to add labels you type into them, but as they´re not open source I can´t get behind that magic, which of course works, as I tested. Using the REST Api didn´t work, using the labelManager and labelUtil also lead to nothing. But I am sure there´s a way to use the labelManager to do so, maybe with the function "addLabel(Labelable content, Label label)" but there I don´t know with what to fill the parameters, beacause I have no access to the current page and I don´t know how to create a new label.

Thanks for your help

[Stephen Deutsch]

I've tried adding labels via user macro, and the easiest thing I've found is to use ajax and let Confluence take care of the rest of the details.  Here is a simple user macro that adds a label based on what you type into a text field.

## @noparams
<script>
var addLabel = function(label) {
    jQuery.post(contextPath + "/json/addlabelactivity.action", {"entityIdString": "$content.id", "labelString": label, "atl_token": jQuery("#atlassian-token").attr("content") }, function() {
        jQuery("#label-to-add").val("");
    });
}
</script>
<form class="aui" onsubmit="return false;">
  <input id="label-to-add" class="text">
  <button class="aui-button aui-button-subtle" onclick="addLabel(jQuery('#label-to-add').val());">
    <span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-add">Add </span>
  </button>
</form>

[stafff95]

thank you very much it works fine for me :)

[Melissa C]

This is great!  Thanks for posting.  

Can I use a field in my macro example "Document Number" that populates the label for the page.  I'm pretty new to this so I'm no sure how to do that yet.  

I currently have my users populating a number of fields in a macro. I wanted to use the "Document Number" field to update the label of the page. 

what should I add to do this?

[Kevin Suter]

Thank you for this macro. It still works with Confluence 6.11.2.