How would I show an include or some controls only if a label is present on that page?

[Martin Cleaver]

I have some pages, where I denote the type of the page using a label. (e.g. 'marketing')

On each of those labeled / typed pages, I want to show an {include} that brings in extra information .

How would I do this?

We are using Confluence 5.3.1

Thanks, M.

[Stephen Deutsch · Accepted solution]

You could use the "if-label" user macro, which can be found here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/if-label

NOTE: Ignore step 7.

I haven't tested it myself, but it should work.

[Martin Cleaver]

Thanks Stephen.

Yes, it worked, with a couple of tweaks! I've posted my replacement version to the page you pointed me to.

[Stephen Deutsch]

Glad to hear it worked for you, and thanks for the update! I think a lot of people don't consider how powerful the user macro functionality is, and unfortunately many of the user macros on the shared page don't work so well anymore (not to mention that the full documenation for user macros is pretty sparse).

[Christina Stergiou]

Hello,

I would love to have the opportunity to use more than one label within the macro. Currently I give out a status macro named Draft to my page whenever there is a draft-label attached to the site.

It would be great If I could add some more statuses like Approved, Reviewed etc. Unfortunately I'm absolutely in lack of experience in order to rewrite my own version of this macro.

Maybe someone can think of a solution and give me a hint?

Best regards!

[Stephen Deutsch]

Why not just include multiple versions of the same macro in the page? You can choose any label in the options. If the label doesn't exist, they don't take up any space on the final page anyways. Or perhaps I didn't understand your use case.

[Christina Stergiou]

Hey Stephen,

thanks for your fast reply. Of course that is a possible solution BUT I would prefer having less macros (best just one) on my pages. I have some late adopters in the team I currently work for and they can be easily scared away by having too much stuff they do not understand (yet).

I know this is quite a "first world problem" so I guess I will give your suggestion a try and see how it is going with the team. Thank you!