Show available labels when creating page

Question

When we create a page we also use labels to find/combine the pages.

This is where we find a bit of a problem, when we add a label to a page it does not show the labels that are allready in use.

It starts showing as soon as I start typing, but there is the problem if a collegue of mine enters: office and I enter outlook it does not show me that there is a label called office.

And we end up creating a extra label, pretty soon you have 100+ labels, is there a way to show all labels when adding to a page?

AhmadDanial · Answer

Hi, Mark.

After re-reading through the initial description of the question, I understood it a little better.

It starts showing as soon as I start typing, but there is the problem if a collegue of mine enters: office and I enter outlook it does not show me that there is a label called office.

The concern that you have here is that the label field is not dynamic enough to notify you that another user is already in the process of creating a label called office (in this example) until the label is actually created. Let me know if I get the right idea on this. If not, please attach some screen shot(s) to display the behavior that you are trying to explain here as well as the ideal feature that you would like to see.

A couple of questions on this statement though:

It's not what we were looking for, because if i want to add a tag like: outlook and my collegue uses: Office, we can not link the to pages together.

* May I know why the page is not created using one label in the first place? Eg. when creating the page, the page creators agree to use a single label called outlook so they are searchable using one specific keyword only?
* If there is a need to link these pages, you should be able to remove the unnecessary label and update it with the single label that you and your colleague agrees on. May I know if this is a feasible workaround in case the pages were labelled incorrectly in the beginning?

Mark Wingens · Answer

It's not what we were looking for, because if i want to add a tag like: outlook and my collegue uses: Office, we can not link the to pages together.

AhmadDanial · Answer

Hi, Mark.

By default, you should be able to view every label created in the instance via https://<fqdn>/wiki/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action as mentioned in the View all labels in a space or site documentation.

If you are looking at a drop down list that will list every label ever created in the site / space when you are adding, we do not have a feature for that but Confluence is capable to pull the information to display any labels that have been created before dynamically as you type. For example:

It also eliminates any duplicates / merge them if you attempt to create new ones if there are existing labels with the same name. May I know if that capability is sufficient to avoid the creation of extra labels?