Custom user macro not working on pdf space export

Question

I have the following maco that creates a table of information that includes, who edited the page, modification date, page name and version. This macro works fine when applied to the page, it also works if you export just the page containing the macro. However when you export the space, the table only shows the page on which the macro is applied. Here is the code ## Macro title: Page Data ## Macro has a body: N ## Body processing: n/a ## Output: HTML ## ## Developed by: Brian Mitchell ## Date created: 06/27/2013 ## @noparams #set ($PageTitle = $content.displayTitle) #set ($PageVersion = $content.version) #set ($PageDate = $action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd MMM yyyy", $content.lastModificationDate)) #set ($PageAuthor = $content.lastModifierName) #set ($pageListArray = []) #set ($currentPage = $action.page) #macro ( process $rp ) #set ($pagelist = $rp.getSortedChildren() ) ## returns List #foreach( $child in $pagelist ) #set($p = $pageListArray.add( $child ) ) #if( $child.hasChildren() ) #process ( $child ) #end #end #end #process ( $currentPage)

Confluence Page Versions

#foreach( $child in $pageListArray) ## child is of type Page #end

Page Title	Page Version	Date	Changed By
$PageTitle	$PageVersion	$PageDate	$PageAuthor
$child.getTitle()	$child.getVersion()	$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd MMM yyyy", $child.getLastModificationDate())	$child.getLastModifierName()

Does anyone know why this is the case?

Pavel Potcheptsov · Answer

Is there solution for that?

I've user macro to customize CSS during export to PDF. And this macro applied during export single page to PDF but when I try to export space or several pages from space it doesn't work.

unknown · Answer

The File > Print solution will not work as the macro works fine was exporting a single page.

The problem occurs when you export a entire space, the page on which the macro sits is not rendered.

Exporting that very same page indivdually is not a issue, but we have a lot of people exporting entire spaces to create documents so we need this macro to be reliable when exporting.

unknown · Answer

Well exporting just the page is not a issue, the problem occurs when exporting a entire space.

Its because something is not being run when exporting the space, however i have had a thought.

If i can add something in to the macro that allows the user to decide what page it uses as its head page and the macro scans everything below that and populates the table that might work.

This is effectivly hard coding the first page in rather than using

#set ($currentPage = $action.page)

I found this out by setting this to entire space and the export worked so if i could allow the user to set the page on which is scans from it might work.