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How do you delete unused labels?

David Meacock

We have a label map on our landing page showing all the popular labels in our space - it contains a whole bunch of labels that simply don't have pages associated with them. At first I assumed they existed on pages that were in the Trash, but I've since checked and the Trash is empty.

So how do I get rid of these labels? Or are we doomed to have an ever-growing map of unused tags?

That would make the product a lot less useful

Accepted answers

Jeremy Largman

You could also use the CLI for this:

confluence --action removeLabels --space "zconfluencecli" --title "This is title 0" --labels "testLabel1, testLabel2"

You can also getLabelList. In general that's a great utility for any kind of mass operation.

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RianA

Hi f1dave,

For this case, to get rid of this label I think it will be better to do it from database side. However please bear in mind that this might cause database inconsistency in your Confluence database, thus please shutdown your Confluence and backup your Confluence database and home directory before doing this.

You can delete it by running the following SQL query.

DELETE FROM LABEL WHERE LABELID NOT IN (SELECT LABELID FROM CONTENT_LABEL);

Please reindex after you've done so. Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Josua

David Meacock

Wow... having to do database queries to solve this? I would have thought this would be a reasonably common use case. Kind of makes the product a little less useful in that way.

Jeremy Largman

You could also use the CLI for this:

confluence --action removeLabels --space "zconfluencecli" --title "This is title 0" --labels "testLabel1, testLabel2"

You can also getLabelList. In general that's a great utility for any kind of mass operation.

David Meacock

Ah, that looks like a handy option. I'll give it a try later, thanks!

David Meacock

Ok, so I've given that a crack - it says it has removed them, but sadly they have not disappeared from my labels heatmap macro. Any idea why that could be?

Joerg Bencke2

Hm ... does the heatmap show spacewide or confluencewide tags ? Maybe you got them in another space.

Jeremy Largman

Or perhaps this is an indexing problem? If so, it's a bug that we should report. Try reindexing (Administration >> Content Indexing).

David Meacock

It's for a specific space. All trash emptied for it. Content re-indexed. Same issue

Jeremy Largman

Ah - sorry about the guess on the index. I just found it. It's at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6520. You'll need to purge the trash.

Phil Lancaster

I have exactly the same problem. Labels that are not attached to any page appearing in the labels list macro. Reindexing makes no difference except to inconvenience users while it's happening. I have no intention of using either the CLI or mucking around with the database to fix something that so obviously should just happen. If there are no pages associated with a label, it should disappear. This is a bug and should be just fixed without requiring a use case or 100 people reporting or documenting it. There's far to much of this kind of thing in Atlassian products.

Informatik Einkauf, IT-EL NA

Having the same Problem with Version 5.5.3

Mario SBB Switzerland

Phil Schwab

Are the labels on attachments?

Angelo Hannes

I completely agree with @Phil Lancaster on this matter. This absolutely needs to become a standard feature of confluence. Actually it seems to be a bug, that labels attached to no content at all, are displayed in popular label lists, etc. But I've browsed some related issues, and there seems to be quite some history with this matter. Unfortunately, the outcome is rather unsatisfying.

Mert Karadağlı _ Köstebek Teknoloji _

Hi,

We added new features to Label Manager for Confluence plugin to remove unused (orphaned) labels exists on deleted contents

You can find detail from link.

Best regards,

Coline Macorol

@Mert Karadağlı _ Köstebek Teknoloji _ your solution is faulty.

I bought your add-on because your trial version limits most label management actions. Follow all your steps to get rid of orphaned labels, yet the labels are still showing up on the "popular macros" heat map.

Am I missing something, or are you deceiving customers?

Mert Karadağlı _ Köstebek Teknoloji _

Hi @Coline Macorol,

If you can create ticket from link , we can try to resolve your problem.

However, this feature was developed after other customers request and it worked successfully.

Coline Macorol

I will

Justin Cimino

I have the same issue David and I'm in agreement with you.

Thu Nguyen_bvi6f1

Hi,

you can try to empty pages in Trash. It works for us.

David_bdghq4

Wow, just stumbled across this post from 2013 and it seems like this is still an issue. Crazy!

Jen Eldridge

Can you rename a label? I accidentally created a few with a "+" symbol between words and it throws an error whenever I attempt to add another label to that doc, and it won't let me remove it.

Jen Eldridge

PS - I created an entirely new doc without the label, purged the old one from trash and the label still shows up in my browse by label macro.

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