Was the Page Properties Macro improved?

[tash_macnica]

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Page Properties Macro

The document says: "In the macro body create a two column table and remove the header row." in the paragraph "Adding the Page Properties macro to a page" and "If your table has a header row, this row will be ignored by the Page Properties Report macro. You should remove the header row." in the footnote but I found no need to remove the header.  In addition, we can leave the 3rd and more columns which might be useful for legends, descriptions, comments, remarks of the row.  I think the Page Properties Report Macro gracefully ignore those columns now.PageProperties_vertical-edit.PNG

And I found a horizontal table with heading row could work as my expectation;

PageProperies_horizontal-edit.PNG

The result of the Page Properties Report macro was seen;

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This is great!  But is this an unexpected behaviour of the macros or lazy updating documentation?

[Isaac Montes · Accepted solution]

There is some documentation on searching using metadata, but not 100% sure it will work.

http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/ATLASSIAN/Searching+Confluence+-+Advanced+-+Metadata+With+Lucene

Hope this helps

[Gaurav Mishra]

Hi Isaac, thanks for the link. It's much better than what Atlassian has on their site. One thing I missed to note is that I want this to be available as a macro so that user can put it in a page and that page will show all the pages created within the specified time frame, makes sense?

I am able to search the created pages within time frame using "created:[20130301 TO 20130315]" to search all the created pages within the time frame of 1st Mar to 15th Mar, now I only need to put that thing in a page so that whenever someone visits that page, he can see all the results.

Can you think of something?

[Ryan Goodwin]

Hi Gaurav,

The functionality doesn't exist natively to search via specific dates. There are add-ons available free that allow you to customize search forms to your requirements:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.advancedSearch

The documentation for the add-on can be found here:

http://www.adaptavist.com/w/Plugins/free/advanced-search/#documentation

This will take some custom work, but most times getting an application do do exactly what you want requires that! Hope this helps.

[Gaurav Mishra]

Hi Ryan, I can search confluence using absolutes dates (see my comment to Issac), however, I don't know how to put that query in a page. is there a search box macro kind of thing where I can provide the same parameters as Standard Confluence Search and it gives me exactly the same results? The Default Search Macro does not have this option, I tried to put my Parameters but its not working.

The plugin you posted the link is not compatible with C5, and I don't see any details on how I can search via date either. There is also a plugin by Atlassian, but I can't access the document, https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CAS/Confluence+Awesome+Search+Home

[BernardoA]

Hello,

According to my understanding I don't know any way to find such pages by date, however I found here this feature request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5785

I believe this is the same request, so we hope that it can be implemented in a future version.

[Gaurav Mishra]

Hi Bernardo, you can search confluence using created / modified parameters in search results. See Issac's link for this. thanks for taking the time to answer though.