Duplicating How-to article

Question

Hi,

Very new to confluence. I like the how-to articles but I want to be able to have multiple how-to articles. I can copy the How-to articles page and it works but pressing the "add how-to article" button adds a label of "kb-how-to-article" so all the newly created articles will still show in the original how-to report table.

Where can I edit this default label?

I could use different spaces for each of the topics but I want everything to be in the one level.

I've been going through the blueprints and templates but can't figure it out just yet. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Barry

Patrick Cartier [Candylio] · Answer

If the "create from template" button is using any Confluence out-of-the-box templates such as the 'how-to article template' then you cannot change the labels that it is using.  There is a feature request for that now:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-29447

That being said, there is nothing preventing you from creating your own template, exactly the same, and adding your own label to it.  So you could have a new template for provisioning, technical, etc.  Then a different create from template for all of those, with different labels for each.

Barry O'Reilly · Answer

Hi Patrick, thanks for helping.. Had come across these articles alright and went back trying to work it but i'm struggling with that button as it somehow tags the article it creates with "kb-how-to-article tag" by default. I can't figure out how to change that default tag to another custom tag, might be missing something really simple here :P

I can add custom tags and then use the content report table to display only these tags.

Patrick Cartier [Candylio] · Answer

Aha!  You can just copy this exact page format for different headings on the same or different page.

One heading for "provisioning", "technical" etc.  Then use the content report table macro to display the right information depending on the label you use.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-report-table-macro-317194676.html

Furthermore if you want to make it really easy on your users you can create a custom template for each type of how-to article and add a button (create from template):

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html

just like on the "how-to articles page" so depending on the type of how-to article they want to create a page will be made with the correct label automatically.

As long as each page has a unique label they should show up in the relevant table.

Hopefully this helps!