'Page Tree' page emoji not updating?

[Si]

It seems the 'page tree' macro does not use the current emoji for the pages displayed in it. Assumedly it's using the emoji that was used when the page was created? Not sure.

Here's a screenshot demonstrating the issue: all these pages have green tick emoji's on them: left side of pic = the standard confluence sidebar showing the current emoji. Right side of image shows a "page tree" on a different page where it's pulling the correct page names, but the page emoji's are a collection of old emoji's and no emojis... It's not even possible to have a page with no emojis anymore: everything should at least default to the "document" default emoji... So yeah, it's weird :D

[Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_]

Hi @Si,

Yes — I’ve noticed the same thing and it’s definitely odd 😅

From what I’ve seen, the Page Tree macro seems to cache the emoji that was set when the page was first added to the tree, and it doesn’t refresh even when you change the emoji on the actual page title later. So the macro ends up showing outdated icons while the sidebar shows the latest ones.

A couple of things to try:

• Force a reload of the macro by removing and re-adding it to the page (not great, but sometimes it resets the icon mapping).
  
  
• Or try editing and saving the parent page — occasionally that causes Confluence to update the rendering of the tree.
  
  
• If you’re using Scroll Documents or any structure plugin, they may override emoji inheritance.

Otherwise, yeah — it looks like a bug or at least an oversight in how the macro pulls metadata. Everything should fall back to the current emoji or the default 📄 one.

Might be worth raising a bug with Atlassian or voting on an existing one if it’s already reported.

— Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty

[Si]

Thanks yeah couldn't it get it to reload either :/