Task Report Macro - Limit to the number of spaces that can be searched

[Tracy Stearman]

Is there a way to increase the number of spaces the Task Report macro can search? It appears that I'm limited to 24 spaces.

[Cyrille Martin · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tracy Stearman 

By any chance, is it the same behavior than the one observed here ?

The reason for this limitation is based on the interface of the original Tasks Report Macro. It allows to provide spaces and pages and hence expects a limited number of pages to cover. The list of provided pages is exchanged via whenever a set of tasks is rendered. The length of an HTTP request is limited, therefore we need to limit the number of pages to guarantee to not exceed the usually accepted length of an HTTP request.

source : https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Max+Initial+Page+for+the+Tasks+Report+Macro 

Regards,

[Tracy Stearman]

Hi @Cyrille Martin 

Thank you for that information. So given the fact that there is a limitation based on Spaces, maybe I can solve for this a different way.

Here's my situation. I have ~40 Spaces created, each is a separate initiative. Would it be possible to group all of these Spaces under another hierarchy? So I would essentially have 1 Space with 40 children?

Am I thinking about this in the right way? And, if so, would it be possible to do this without recreating all of my Spaces? 

[Cyrille Martin]

Hi @Tracy Stearman 

Space hierarchy is not native to Confluence; consequently, it will not be possible to do as you specify. Nonetheless, you could use 2 macro Task report with each 20 spaces listed. It is not a nice workaround but at least one in your case.

You can also vote to get all tasks from all spaces on the instance : https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-71390?error=login_required&error_description=Login+required&state=53aa968f-669b-434f-b758-a7082726426b (which is the behavior on DC)

[Tracy Stearman]

Thanks Cyrille - this is a good suggested workaround.