Labeled pages are not showing up in Labelled content nor Macro for >12 hours
Asked by Daniel Hnyk:

Hi,

I am adding labels to pages via \`Add labels\`, say label "alpha". That page is created and published and works just fine.

But when I go to Labelled content for that label (https://{name}.atlassian.net/wiki/label/{space}/alpha), it's not showing up with a message "No pages..." and it doesn't show up in Macros where I want to search for pages with that label.

After about 12 hours, those pages *did* show up in the end, but that's unacceptable amount time. New pages created with that label are again not listed (and I guess it will take another 12 hours? Is that some indexing going on?). Is that something I can do about it?

Related questions:

* [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/The-content-by-label-macro-not-working/qaq-p/77075](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/The-content-by-label-macro-not-working/qaq-p/77075 "https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/The-content-by-label-macro-not-working/qaq-p/77075")

* [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-is-cloud-confluence-indexing-disabled/qaq-p/337558](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-is-cloud-confluence-indexing-disabled/qaq-p/337558 "https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-is-cloud-confluence-indexing-disabled/qaq-p/337558")

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Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I have seen this type of issue via other question regarding the cloud instance. Might be a function of where you are versus they closest server, and the connectivity between it and other servers in their cloud. Atlassian has been pushing the cloud quite heavily for all their products. Has their supporting infrastructure kept pace?


author: Drew Cox
body: I can't offer anything constructive here except to say we also see this in some of our server instances (v7.4.11) and it's super annoying.

Our internal Confluence support say there is a known defect that should be fixed in their next upgrade, I'm trying to get the defect number and will post it here.

I see this affecting not just new labels (including their use in the page properties macro) but also new pages appearing in the "ChildTabs" macro. Their availability appears delayed by something like 12 hrs.

BTW, see others with same problem on <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Labels-functionality-is-not-working-on-page/qaq-p/1386184>. No resolution.


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Daniel Hnyk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4212799)

I think the answer should be similar to this thread which is to add page properties macro to the pages and see if that works.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Page-property-report-shows-quot-No-content-quot-even-though/qaq-p/1877894#U1878639>

comments: author: James Whitby
body: I don't think the thread referred to is relevant to the slow updating/indexing of labels, it refers specifically to the case where a user of the page properties report macro had neglected to include a page properties macro to refer to.

I am also, October 2023, seeing a slow update of the label indexing. (Well, I assume it is slow, I haven't seen it work yet, but the comments above suggest i must wait a day or so).


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