Updating Confluence Space Key caused my Child Macros to malfunction

Question

So my pages used to have this beautiful Child Macros that shows up properly. I noticed that when I changed the Confluence space key, the child macros doesn't show up anymore.

Is there any way to get these back. Now, all of my Child Macros aren't working at all and I tried re-linking them but nothing works.

Shannon S · Answer

Hi Nikka,

Do you happen to be on Confluence Cloud? That would prevent you from reindexing Confluence.

If so, you can reach out to the Cloud Support Team in order to reindex. If reindexing doesn't resolve the issue, then they can have a look at your instance itself and the database in order to determine why this might be happening.

I would ask that when the issue is resolved for you through the support team, you come back here and let us know how they resolved the issue for you, in order to help other users.

Regards,

Shannon

Nikka Lao · Answer

And yes the Child Macro I'm referring to is Children Display Macro.

When I attempt to type the new Space Name in the Parent Page, it doesn't even show the list properly. And using the former space name yields a "Not found" error message.

I also went and tried to re-index but my General Configuration but then got a "Temporarily, currently only sysadmin can change indexing language and reindex all documents. Contact Atlassian Support if you need help."

Shannon S · Answer

Nikka,

Thank you for clarifying that!

When you are referring to Child Macro, could you just confirm that you are referring to the Children Display Macro?

Could you first try to rebuild the Confluence content indices (reindex) and see if that helps the issue?

If not, could you please send some screenshots of the behavior you're experiencing when you try to re-insert the macro?

Regards,

Shannon