[CONF] Is there a way to find out if the content by label macro will not find any pages before rendering?

[Steve Goldberg]

I use the contentbylabel macro in a template to pull in lists of related pages based on labels. However, sometimes there are no related pages and I would like to know if there's some Velocity code I could use where if results = 0 I can put "N/A" or just not make it show at all.

The default Confluence behaviour of printing out "No content found for label(s) YOURLABELSHERE." is unattractive.

Thank you.

[Mark Hrynczak · Accepted solution]

One possiblity is to hide the text using CSS.

Something like:

#main-content .tableview {
 visibility:hidden;
}

However, this might have unintended consequences if you have any other content which matches that class.

Cheers,
Mark

[Steve Goldberg]

Thanks for the suggestion but the tableview class is present regardless of whether there is content found or not. It really needs to be something I can get Confluence to run on when a condition is true or false.

[Mark Hrynczak]

That does seem to be the case, sorry about that.

I found another couple of suggestions which might work for you:

1. Edit the i18n label for the macro
   
2. Create a user macro to override the text on a page

Hope that helps more than my first suggestion :)

Mark

[Mark Hrynczak]

Great!

There is also an open request to improve the experience in the macro itself, which you can vote on.

[Steve Goldberg]

Thanks, Mark. The JS solution works. Would have preferred something in VTL but this is fine.

Cheers!