Is it appropriate to use composite labels tied by an underline or hyphen?

[Sergio Storch]

I need to have labels made of a set of words. What s the best way to do it?

[Jeison · Accepted solution]

Hey Sergio,

I'd go with underline, but that's only my personal opinion. It actually doesn't make difference, but I'd say it is important that you create your own pattern, and stick to it.

Cheers.

[Sergio Storch]

Thanks, Jeison

Now, a problem I ve had with using any of both is that the autocomplete function in Confluence 4.2 doesn t work. The composite labels don t appear.

Is there a solution for that, or is it a case to be resolved in later versions?

Bye

[Jeison]

Hi Sergio,

It should be working. I just tested in my own instance (v.4.2), and it worked perfectly. You should raise a ticket at support.atlassian.com to have this resolved for you.

Cheers

[Mykenna Cepek]

I know this is an ancient thread, but for others who search for "CQL" and "labels" and "hyphen" or "underscore"...

I discovered today (in Confluence Data Center v8.5.8 that labels with a hyphen will cause CQL to fail unless you quote them, but underscores are fine. For example:

label IN (apple_store)

will work fine but

label IN (apple-store)

will fail until you rewrite it as

label IN ("apple-store")