How to find pages that DON'T include a specific macro?

Question

Being able to find pages that include a specific macro is incredibly helpful, however I have the opposite challenge: finding pages that do NOT include a specific macro.

In this case the macro is the "include page" macro. I've tried many variations on search syntax but no joy. Help?

(In our wiki, most pages include a customized search bar and help links via an included page. I want to find the pages that *don't* include that page so I can add the search bar where it's missing.)

Thanks in advance!

Michelle Rau HP · Answer

Hi Kurt, I took a look at this. Since I'm not a wikispace admin, just a lowly and humble wiki admin :-) I finally got ordinary search parameters to work:

type:page AND NOT macroName: include*

This found all pages in our wiki that DON'T include the "include page" macro. This will help me find and update all the pages that still need a specific page include.

There is probably another search parameter that can help me narrow it down further to pages that don't include a *specific page* (instead of pages that don't have any includes at all) but I haven't worked that out yet.

Thanks for getting me on the right track learning about search though!

Kurt Klinner · Answer

@Michelle Rau HP Hi Michelle https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-find-all-pages-and-spaces-that-use-a-specific-macro-via-sql-747837116.html shows how to list pages that have a macro in use, so i think by modifying the where clause you could get the results that you want AND bc.body not LIKE '%ac:name=""%' instead of AND bc.body LIKE '%ac:name=""%'; you might need to add additional clauses to get to the final result Cheers Kurt