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How find pages without a specific label in Confluence?

Alex Obuhovich

Hi,

I want to find pages that have "label-a" but don't have "label-b".

The advanced search form allows to search for label presence by adding "+labelText:label-a", but searching for label absence using "-labelText:label-b" doesn't seem to be working.

Also in each case I'm required to enter a keyword for search, but since I want to find all pages I get no search results because of missing keyword.

Thanks.

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Stephen Deutsch

Sorry, I forgot that Confluence label searching sort of has a bug: if you search for a label that has a dash in it, it only searches for part of the label. Therefore, when we were searching for "task-related", it was matching any labels that contained the word "task".

If you search for labelText:"task-created" NOT labelText:"task-resolved" (with the quotes) then it works properly.

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YouriDS

Hello

Use the NOT operator.

type:page labelText:label-a NOT labelText:label-b

Alex Obuhovich

Thanks, but that doesn't work. Here is where I use it: http://community.in-portal.org/dosearchsite.action?queryString=type%3Apage+labelText%3Atask-created+NOT+labelText%3Atask-resolved 1. the "Type" in sidebar on the left still says "All Content" even though I've searched for pages only (maybe pages only are found) 2. the 1st found page doesn't have any label at all. I've tried to add "AND" before "NOT" but that resulted in no pages found.

Stephen Deutsch

It seems like that's because all pages that have the "task-created" label also have the "task-resolved" label. Searching for each label individually shows 2011 results for both.

Alex Obuhovich

That's not true as well. There following group of pages (I'm certain): - ones, that don't have any label - ones, that have label other then "task-created" or "task-resolved" - ones that have "task-created", but not "task-resolved" - ones that have both "task-created" and "task-resolved" Fact, that page with no labels were also found proves, that suggested search query doesn't search what it's supposed to.

Stephen Deutsch

If you search for labelText:"task-created" NOT labelText:"task-resolved" (with the quotes) then it works properly.

Alex Obuhovich

Yes, that is what I needed. Big thanks. This is final search query I've used: labelText:"task-created" NOT labelText:"task-resolved"

Martin Cleaver

Is this bug still the case? Do you have the issue ticket?

Martin Cleaver

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html says

Searches for content containing a specific label. If the label has a hyphen, include it within double quotes.

labelText:roadmap

labelText:"product-roadmap"

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