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With AI and LLMs playing a huge growing role in knowledge management, the ability to organize and interlink content effectively has become more critical than ever. Meaning...labels aren’t just for us humans anymore as we can use them as signals to help AI understand context, build associations, and deliver smarter responses.

Being able to bulk add, update, or remove labels...whether during a cleanup or when aligning content for AI use would make Confluence a much more future-ready platform. Having to manage labels one page at a time, or relying on the API for what in my opinion (and the people in this thread) should be a core functionality, creates unnecessary friction.

I'm hoping this take on this request helps this extremely long-requested feature finally get some traction, especially as teams increasingly rely on Confluence to power AI-driven experiences.  

Our use case scenario is that of multiple legacy spaces merging into one, due to a reorganization of the business.

Because the LiveSearch macro doesn't offer the option to filter by Parent page, adding a label to all child pages is required. With hundreds of child pages, manually adding the label is not an option. It would be nice to have tools that allow managing content in bulk.

Given the limitations of not having the ability to bulk assign labels to a sub-set of content, AND LiveSearch not offering Parent Page as filter option, the only workaround is the Page Tree Search macro. Of course, this macro is not as user friendly as the LiveSearch, so it feels like taking a step back from a user experience standpoint. 

I hope that this idea gets selected for development as a way to improve the managing of large knowledge bases with mature content. Thank you!

This suggestion was first raised in October 2009.

It is now 2023.

This simple suggestion should quite frankly have been a Confluence default, and is STILL not implemented 14 years later.

It baffles me that Atlassian suggest using labels, yet we cannot bulk edit pages and add/remove labels, or bulk rename labels without the use of a plug-in.

Atlassian, you really need to pull your finger out.

Hard to understand that this is not have been default functionality already for years..

We had a similar need to focus on child pages and decided to built an app [Label Manager for Easy Apps|https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1232224/label-manager-by-easy-apps?hosting=cloud&tab=overview.]

Option to select a parent (includes all the children):

Admin can also:

Hi All, 

For those still seeking a way to quickly update and organize labels, as part of the ScriptRunner for Confluence app we have some easy to use built-in scripts (no coding!) where you can add, remove, or rename labels in bulk.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?hosting=server

Give it a try and us know what you think! 

For those customers using OnDemand/Confluence Cloud, you might try using our recently released addon, Bulk Action Tools:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/bulk-action-tools

It allows you to manage labels on multiple pages, namely adding, removing, renaming, splitting, and merging. You can also use this addon to add/remove page watches and move/delete multiple pages at a time. It doesn't yet support attachment labels, but we might add that functionality in the near future. You can find the documentation here:

https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BAT/Bulk+Action+Tools

Try it out, and feel free to give feedback.

Hi Burcu,
thanks, this works fine for us.

Hi Thomas,
We have released new version of our plugin, now bulk label operations for attachments can be done.
Regards,

Hi Burcu,
thanks, your plug-in seems to be a good solution for bulk operations with page labels. While working with the test version I discovered that you can remove labels not only from multiple pages but also from their attachments - is there a way to add labels to attachments, too? It would be helpful, if you could select attachments from a list for the case, that you want to add different labels to different attachments of one and the same page.
Best regards,
Thomas