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Should passing the URL parameters for createblogpost.action work with Confluence 4.0 as well?

Juha Meronen

I have been using this kind of URL links with previous versions of Confluence:

.../wiki/pages/createblogpost.action?spaceKey=space&labelsString=label

It seems that the labels parameters are not passed on for the blog post at all anymore.

Is there any way to get this working with Confluence 4.0?

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Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]

Yes you can do this with a little bit of javascript. Insert the following code to your Administration > Custom HTML > "At the end of the BODY"-part

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
 
AJS.toInit(function ($) { 
 
     //is it a create page action which is called?? 
    if( window.location.href.indexOf("createpage.action") &gt; -1 || window.location.href.indexOf("createblogpost.action")) {
         
        //if yes is there a label given as request parameter???
        var label = getUrlVars()["labelsString"];
        if(label) {
             
            //simply click the labeleditbutton
            jQuery("#rte-button-labels").trigger("click");
            //insert the label parameter value
            jQuery("#labelsString").val(label);
            //and close the label editor
            jQuery("#add-labels-editor-button").trigger("click");

            jQuery(".dialog-button-panel a.button-panel-cancel-link").trigger("click");

        }
    }
});
 
//this function is needed to get the parameters from the url
function getUrlVars()
{
    var vars = [], hash;
    var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&amp;');
    for(var i = 0; i &lt; hashes.length; i++)
    {
        hash = hashes[i].split('=');
        vars.push(hash[0]);
        vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
    }
    return vars;
}
 
&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Now you can use your "labelsString" Parameter. Don't forget to clear your browser cache with Ctrl+R. Testet with my Confluence 4.0.

Remo Siegwart

This should still work in Confluence 4.0 with the parameter labelsString, it works at least in our environment. They won't be displayed in the label editor, but they will be added to the page/blogpost after saving.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. You can pass multiple labels with labelsString=test1,test2 and then even add a third label (for example: label3) in the editor. Confluence will add all three labels to the page/blogpost. I can think of some use cases where hiding those passed labels would make sense.

Hope this helps

Juha Meronen

Remo, thanks a lot! This resolves my issue completely. It is actually even BETTER that the label parameters passed over in URL are not shown in label editor (the user cannot remove them...).

Remo Siegwart

Exactly, that's the use case I was thinking about. I'm glad that this resolves your issue!

KPAH

&labelsString=label doesn't work in 4.3

or should I still insert the script code for it to work?

eyrisone

It looks like the URL method is broken again (Confluence 5.9.3).

Sandro, your solution works perfectly for me (thank you!), but the labels window remains open after clicking the link.

I tried changing ".dialog-button-panel a.button-panel-cancel-link" to a couple of different things, but nothing I tried worked.

Any ideas?

Ingrid Schipper

We experience the same problems with the url method in5.9.4. Anyone any ideas how to solve it.

Auke_Miedema

see https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37848

A solutiion that fixes the url method is installing the recently published free Bitvoodoo add-on Label Fixer