Is there a “What's New” mechanism for Confluence that displays in the "Children Display" macro?

[KeithC]

We use Confluence to author our product documentation and would like to be able to mark specific pages as "New" or "New in Version 9" - using e.g. a label - and have that reflected in the "Children Display" macro.

Is there a free or paid component we can add to Confluence - we host our own instance - that does this? My Google-fu is weak on this one.

I don't imagine it is possible to construct a macro to do this, but if it is please share. I've taken a look at the "Content by Label" and "Content Report Table" macros as an alternative and they don't work too well for this case.

[Diego]

Hello there Keith!

I am not aware of third-party addon that does this. However, I think we can setup the Content by Label macro to work almost as specification. Here, take a look:

1. Create a new page
2. Add the Content by label macro
3. Setup a label for new content (such as newly-created)
4. Edit the settings for that macro
5. Under the Label text field, insert the label you created
6. Add a new Filter for Creation
7. Select the time window (Last week, for example)
8. Go to the Options section
9. Select creation
10. Select Reverse Sort (this should bring the newer ones to the top
11. Type a List title (if you want to, not mandatory)
12. Define the maximum number of pages you want to display

This is my result Keith:

Reference

Content by label macro - Confluence Server

Would the final result above work for your objective? Let me know Keith.

Looking forward to your reply.