I have a comment and some votes on a page about the Create from Template button and labels. But what I am proposing is so easy for you to do but also so powerful that I decided to create a ticket for it to pitch the idea to you. 

I'd like to see the ability to have a configurable button on a Confluence page that you can have the option to only add a label to the page, only remove a label to a page or choose that it toggles the said label on/off of the page. 

 

This functionality would allow for Application like functionality within Confluence. Here is a few examples below. 

 

Case Scenario 1:  I have a page that I use the create from template button to make pages that are storyboards for eLearning training development lessons. The new storyboard page inherits the labels from my template page. I have a work flow main page based on labels and what labels are on the storyboard pages. I am using the macro Content by label to show the storyboards in each state. To advance a storyboard from planned, to in production, to editing, etc, I simply remove a label to move it from one step in the work flow to the next. With buttons that can add or remove labels then I can have a toolbar in my page template to move a page through the workflow. This would be powerful for the end user. 

 

Case Scenario 2:  I have a knowledge base page with a create from template button to create a new how-to article. The new pages inherit the label "draft" from my template page. I now have draft how-to articles that myself and my tech writer can vet out and polish up and then remove the draft label and consider the page as production. 

 

Theoretical Case Scenarios: Using the concept I am employing above you can have a page for "ToDo". You can create your tasks for yourself and merely press a button on that tasks page as "Done" and you're done. That main page could easily be copied and setup for other people for their own task list without much explanation of what labels do what for the status of your task list. Also it would be customization for power users obviously. 

Also, you could have a team of people creating new projects and then have them go through a work flow to completion. End users would have to just click a button on a page that is in plain English. This would be such an amazing and powerful feature for your company to have. Companies don't want to have to purchase very expensive line of business applications for the various project management or process management that they do. For most uses this would serve the purpose needed. 

 

A complementary macro to the button or perhaps the macro could have an alternate option of a drop down that could be configurable so you can present 3 labels (statuses) for your particular workflow to your end users.

 

You guys have nothing to lose and everything to gain from this. Can I get it next week? : )