Set Pages with a specific label as Options for a dropdown menu?

Question

I would like to make a user makro that allows me to set the options of a dropdown menu as all the pages in a space with the label "inventory" (for example).

This is my code to set the options to the parents of the labels:

## @param Option:title=Label|type=string|required=true|desc=Pages that contain this label should be displayed.

#foreach ($paramOption)
#if ($label.name == $paramOption)
#set ($options = contentLink2($Label.name)
#end
#end

Doesn't work however...

Can anyone help please?

unknown · Answer

In that case, indeed, the Scriptrunner choose label macro is not usable. What you want is to have a dynamically created list in the drop down of all pages that have a certain label. These kind of dynamic real-time content is not possible with the standard Confluence system.

It is easy to show a list of all pages with a certain label but to create a drop down showing pages with a certain label may require an add-on or make your own macro. I suggest you to either look into forms add-ons or database add-ons.

Joham Alfred · Answer

The labels for the pages are automatically set by scriptrunner's "Add Label" macro.

I want to have two templates. Template A is a description of employees and template B is a description of inventory items.

All pages A get the label "user" set and all pages B get the label "item". This is always like that.

Now I want to be able to link page/s B to a page A by setting a dropdown menu to show all pages with the label "item" in page A. The person that creates the page from my template should be able to choose from the dropdown list.

unknown · Answer

Maybe you can take a look at the ScriptRunner add-on and more specifically the "Choose Label macro" .

It will enable you to make a drop down list of labels that can be selected. I use that in a template page so I know that the users can select one or more labels that will be added to the page that is created with the template. It even allows me to show readable text in the drop downs that will be translated into the corresponding label(s) in the labeling format we defined. This will prevent users from entering the wrong label.

I use the page labels to create overviews and dashboards that will show all pages using the " Content by label " macro.