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Suggestion
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Resolution: Unresolved
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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.
Problem Definition
Confluence does not provide a functionality which could allow attachments and child pages to inherit labels from its parent page. It could be useful for building RSS and Recently-Updated feeds.
Currently only one Marketplace plugin provides solution for labels inherited during the page creation but it does not maintain them: if the page is moved the labels will not be updated accordingly.
Suggested Solution
- It would be good to expand the present labeling system with:
- Parent-child relations
- Synonyms
- Inheritance
- And to develop a toolkit to maintain the existing labels.
Workaround
- Manually add the labels in the child pages
- Use one of the plugins available in the Atlassian Marketplace
- Create templates with the necessary labels assigned and create new pages using this template
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[CONFSERVER-39457] Inherited labels for child pages and attachments
This feature would be game changing because right now we have to create for each sub parent Page a template with the label. If we could inherit the labels from the parent page, we could use just one template.
My company is exploring using Confluence as our company-wide process library. I'm working on a POC to help us make the decision on whether to move to Confluence from our current application. The library organization structure would use department parent pages with team child pages and process grandchild pages. On each department page will be a Page Properties Report that displays all of the processes within that department's scope (determined by a dept specific label on each process page).
Right now we'd need to manually add the appropriate dept specific label to each process page that gets created. I anticipate this would require frequent review and manual correction by a space admin to maintain.
It would be significantly easier if every child page (and grandchild page) automatically inherited the dept label.
I think this would be one of the best things to happen, if Confluence makes it available. (Not as add on) Some documentation contains multiple pages due its size and it is paramount for child page inherit parent page parameters. Especially important if we are talking about Workflows and this side of things.
My team uses Confluence to store notes, as a library for reference docs and how-to's, and for some presentables. Labels are critical for maintaining good searchability and categorization of pages and information, but adding proper labels is often last priority for us. Implementing a toggle option to have child pages in a space inherit labels from parents would significantly diminish the overhead for having a usable Confluence space as the number of pages grows. In addition, since we are on a Confluence Server instance, it seems that some add-ins are not available for us.