Task Report macro missing older tasks after update

[Gerald Schneider]

After updating our Confluence instance to version 8.7.1 the task report macros stopped showing tasks that had been created before the update.

All tasks that are newly created since the update are shown properly.

According to both of these KB articles:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/certain-tasks-do-not-show-up-in-the-task-report-macro-658179671.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/task-report-macro-is-showing-tasks-from-previous-versions-of-the-page-1050546046.html

it should suffice to delete the content of the table AO_BAF3AA_AOINLINE_TASK and restart confluence to have the table rebuilt. The mentioned entry in the table BANDANA does not exist.

I tested this approach on a test instance before doing it on the production instance, but even after restarting Confluence multiple times the table is not populated again. The macro doesn't show any task at all.

Flushing Caches or rebuilding the Content Index does not help, but I didn't really expect them to.

How can I rebuild the table, or is there any other way to show all tasks in the task report macro?

[Charlie Marriott · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gerald Schneider

Thanks for your post and sorry to hear you've encountered some problems with the task report macro. We have some fixes for this coming in Confluence Data Center 8.7.2, which should be released in the next few weeks.

Kind regards,

Charlie

[Gerald Schneider]

I can confirm that the issue is fixed with Confluence 8.7.2. Thank you very much.

[Charlie Marriott]

Great to hear @Gerald Schneider, thanks for letting me know!

Take care,

Charlie

[Stefan Salzl]

Hi @Charlie Marriott 

Is there any workaround for this too?

Even though it´s a real pain in the ass to not seeing old tasks an update of the whole environment isn´t that easy for companies with big systems.

Any suggestion?

Best
Stefan

[Axel Bodemer]

Hello,

We updated our Confluence test system from 8.7.2 to 9.03, with the same effect. The task macro did not display any tasks. In our case this workflow was funktional:

1. shutdown confluence
2. erase the files application-data/confluence/journal/task_report_*
3. start confluence

Kind regards,

Axel

[Marco Bosetti]

There have been some code changes for the inline task in Confluence v8.7.1.

We have found in some cases adding the dark feature to disable the new code changes has helped to fix the issue

• Trigger the Full site index:

Go to

https://confluence-staging.eoc.ch/plugins/servlet/rebuildindex

                and click on Site reindex

• Go to <confluence-url>/admin/darkfeatures.action

Add the parameter below: 

confluence.task-report.use-database-for-reports

[Gerald Schneider]

For me this resulted in no tasks being visible at all, neither old nor new. Luckily, removing the entry from the darkfeatures returned the previous state.

[Вадим Новик]

the same thing happened to us

[Grayson Horne]

We are also having this issue after we updated to 8.7.1. Ticking/unticking (or vice-versa) the tasks in the pages causes them to show up again, but this obviously isn't a solution. 

[Marco Bosetti]

Good morning,
We also encountered the problem as soon as we updated to 8.7.1.

The workaround didn't work.