How to pull native 'Page Status' metadata into a Page Properties Report

[Elikplim Dornor]

I am looking for a way to surface the native Page Status (the one found at the top of the page next to the breadcrumbs) within a Page Properties Report.

Currently, we have to manually insert a Status Macro inside a Page Properties table to track progress.

It would be much more efficient if the report could dynamically reflect the actual Page Status metadata. Is there a way to reference this system field in the report, or is this still a limitation of the Page Properties macro?

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Elikplim Dornor ,

Yeah... you currently cannot do that. The only possibility, as you've noticed, is to manually add a status macro 🫤
There's a feature request related to this, though: CONFCLOUD-74397: Add option to show page status in various macros 

One info/tip that could be useful - page statuses can be displayed (and edited) in the Confluence databases: 

You can read more about that here: Confluence best practices / Tips and tricks for Confluence databases 

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Elikplim Dornor]

Thanks for your response Tomislav Tobijas. I've voted for the feature request you referenced. 

[Elikplim Dornor]

Thank you @Kris Klima _K15t_ for your response. I was hoping to have a page that provides users with all children pages, their status, owners, and other important meta data for governance. I'll look into the content manager as well. 

[Veronika Chachkova I Stiltsoft]

Hi, @Elikplim Dornor 

As some of the previous users mentioned, right now the native Page Status (shown in the page header) isn’t exposed as a field that Page Properties or Page Properties Report can reference. This is a current limitation in Atlassian Confluence.

Alternative: instead of Page Properties reporting, you can use Handy Page Status Report (from Handy Statuses). It allows you to assign page statuses and automatically collect them into centralized reports across pages or spaces. So there’s no need to manually maintain a Status macro inside Page Properties.

Here's how mine looks like:

While the native Page Status metadata can’t be pulled into reports today, Handy Page Status Report gives you a more automated and scalable way to track and report page progress without duplication.

Handy Statuses is part of the Handy Macros for Confluence app. Feel free to try Handy Macros if you’re looking for more flexible page status tracking and reporting.

Cheers,

Veronika from Stiltsoft

[Elikplim Dornor]

Thank you, @Veronika Chachkova I Stiltsoft for your response. 

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

Hi @Elikplim Dornor ,

Confluence has no built in method to do that.

However our app allows you to put the page status into the page properties report: Document Metadata for Confluence Cloud. Our app has a status metadata macro to allow this.

You can try the app for free for 30 days.

Hope this helps.

[Elikplim Dornor]

Thank you, @marc -Collabello--Phase Locked- for your response.

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Hi @Elikplim Dornor 

I understand why you'd want that but maybe there's another method of getting the overview of page information.

Check Content Manager, it shows pretty much every detail about the pages in one place.