Automation to check for page macros

Ian MacDonald

Hello,

I have been having some trouble building an automation that checks for various items on a page when it is edited. This is part of a document compliance effort to ensure people are not using certain macros in specific controlled spaces.

I have managed to put together some simple macros (see image) that check for a macro on the page, but I run into issues when I want to check for multiple different macro types.

 

 

I have tried using an IF/ELSE branch with multiple checks for macros. It seems to always return as TRUE even when none of the conditions are met on the page.

 

I feel like there must be a more elegant solution that I am overlooking, and any advice on how to check a page for macros would be very helpful. Thank you!

marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-

Hi @Ian MacDonald ,

Not sure why your automation is not working.

One thing you can do to streamline he macro detection is to use a condition like

macro in (toc, widget) 

in a CQL Condition in an if-block.

However for compliance it is probably better to work with an allowlist of macros instead of listing all forbidden macros:

macro not in (allowedMacro1, allowedMacro2)

We use a similar approach when we search for pages for our Document Control macro.