Show Page Revision History for Parent & Children - Single View
Asked by Daniel Ross:

Does anyone know if there is a way to show page revision history (macro) for all pages in a tree (Parent \& Children) in a single view. It seems that the page revisions only get down to the page level, but I'd like show changes at the parent level.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Daniel,

We don't have a macro bundled with Confluence that will show the details of the page revisions of child pages. We have this suggestion ticket open: [Ability to include Children in Change-History Macro](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54688) The ticket is public so you can comment or vote on it to emphasize your use case. If you do vote or comment you will be added to email notifications for it.

In case it helps, the [Contributors Summary macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/contributors-summary-macro-183470224.html) can be set to show who has revised pages beneath and including the parent page:
> The default scope for this macro is an individual page, but this can be extended to include the immediate children or descendants of a specified page. The statistics cover the following types of contributions:
>
> edits to the page(s)  
> comments added to the page(s)  
> labels added to the page(s)  
> people watching the page(s)

Thanks,

Ann


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Daniel Ross](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/80618)

Since you are on confluence server, you could use a user macro. I wrote one for myself.

Perhaps it helps you, perhaps not :) Let me know, if this is what you searched for.

Here is the code:

```
## Macro title: Dominic
## Macro has a body: N
##
## Developed by: Dominic
## Date created: 05/12/2019
## Installed by: Dominic

## This is an example macro
## @param latest:title=Just the last version|type=boolean|desc=If ticked, it shows only the latest version.
## @param startDate:title=Start Date|type=date|required=true|desc=Format: dd.MM.yyyy
## @param endDate:title=End Date|type=date|required=true|desc=Format: dd.MM.yyyy

###CONVERTS THE PARAM STRINGS TO DATE FOR COMPARING
#set( $startDate = $action.dateFormatter.getCalendar())
#set( $parts = $paramstartDate.split("[.]") )
#set ($i = 0)
#foreach ($part in $parts)
#if ($i == 0)
#set ($day = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#elseif ($i == 1)
#set ($month = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#set ($month = $month - 1)
#else
#set ($year = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#end

#set ($i = $i + 1)
#end
$startDate.set($year, $month, $day, 0, 0, 0)

###CONVERTS THE PARAM STRINGS TO DATE FOR COMPARING
#set( $endDate = $action.dateFormatter.getCalendar())
#set( $parts = $paramendDate.split("[.]") )
#set ($i = 0)
#foreach ($part in $parts)
#if ($i == 0)
#set ($day = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#elseif ($i == 1)
#set ($month = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#set ($month = $month - 1)
#else
#set ($year = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$part"))
#end

#set ($i = $i + 1)
#end
$endDate.set($year, $month, $day, 0, 0, 0)




#set( $containerManagerClass=$content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager') )
#set( $getInstanceMethod=$containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null) )
#set( $containerManager=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null) )
#set( $containerContext=$containerManager.containerContext )
#set( $pageManager=$containerContext.getComponent('pageManager') )
#set( $page = $pageManager.getPage($content.getId()) )


###GET ALL VERSIONS FOR FURTHER OPERATIONS
#set( $latestVersions = [] )
###set( $dummy = $latestVersions.add($content.getLatestVersion()) )

#set( $allVersions=[] )
#foreach( $child in $page.getDescendants() )
#set( $childVersions = $pageManager.getVersionHistorySummaries($child.getEntity()) )
#foreach( $childVersion in $childVersions)
#set( $modDateTimeMillis = $childVersion.getLastModificationDate().getTime() )
#if( $modDateTimeMillis > $startDate.timeInMillis and $modDateTimeMillis < $endDate.timeInMillis)
#set( $dummy = $allVersions.add($childVersion) )
#end
#end
#end

#foreach( $version in $allVersions )
#set( $versionPage = $pageManager.getPage($version.getId()) )
#set( $modDateTimeMillis = $versionPage.getLastModificationDate().getTime() )
#if( $modDateTimeMillis > $startDate.timeInMillis and $modDateTimeMillis < $endDate.timeInMillis)
#set( $dummy = $latestVersions.add($version) )
#end
#end


###CHECK IF THE PARAMS AREN'T EMPTY
#if( $paramstartDate and $paramendDate)
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="expand" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="0662921b-d1ae-47f1-8502-5500fea7d1c8">
<ac:parameter ac:name="title">Change History ($paramstartDate - $paramendDate)</ac:parameter>
<ac:rich-text-body>
#if( $paramlatest == true)
<h1>Latest Version</h1>
#table( $latestVersions, $startDate, $endDate )
#elseif ($paramlatest == false )
<h1>All Versions</h1>
#table( $allVersions, $startDate, $endDate )
#end
</ac:rich-text-body>
</ac:structured-macro>
#end

#macro( table $versions, $startDate, $endDate )
<table id="myTable">
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Version</th>
<th>Link</th>
<th>Version Comment</th>
<th>Editor</th>
<th>Actual Version</th>
</tr>
#set( $alreadyPrintedVersions = [] )
#foreach( $version in $versions )
#set( $modDate = $version.getLastModificationDate() )
#set( $modDateTimeMillis = $version.getLastModificationDate().getTime() )
#set( $modDate = $action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd.MM.yyyy", $modDate) )
#set( $page = $pageManager.getPage($version.getId()) )

#if(!$alreadyPrintedVersions.contains($page.getLatestVersionId()) )
<tr>
<td>$modDate</td>
<td>$version.getVersion()</td>
<td><a href="$page.getUrlPath()">$page.getDisplayTitle()</a></td>
#if($version.getVersionComment())
<td>$version.getVersionComment()</td>
#else
<td></td>
#end

#set( $allContributers=$version.getContributorSet() )
<td>
#foreach( $user in $allContributers)
$user.getFullName()
#end
</td>

<td>
#set( $latestVersion = $page.getLatestVersion() )
<a href="$latestVersion.getUrlPath()">V$latestVersion.getVersion(): $latestVersion.getDisplayTitle()</a>
</td>
</tr>
#end
#set( $dummy = $alreadyPrintedVersions.add($page.getLatestVersionId()) )
#end
</table>
#end
```

comments: author: Andreas Schmidt
body: Is there anything for this for Confluence Cloud?


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: Hello [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600)

thanks a lot, great macro !

i'm trying to customize it to reoder the columns, a bit tricky.

Also, the sort by date does not work, odd ?


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Handle dates in velocity is horror...

So I do not know any good solution for this


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: I fixed my issue by using the yyyy-mm-dd format in the macro, thanks :)


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: Hello [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600)

I tried to include this macro to add a new column with the path to page : <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-create-a-Confluence-user-macro-that-displays-the-full/qaq-p/937886>

But I must have missed smtg as it is always the current path of my main page which is displayed : would you please have an advise for this ?

Thanks :-)


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Sylvain Leduc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2935916)

Sorry, but can you explain in detail what you want to achieve? I do not understand...


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600)

I want to add a column 'path to page' in the existing macro you developed.

This column will display the related path.


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Sylvain Leduc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2935916)

This should be possible with this already existing line

```
<a href="$page.getUrlPath()">$page.getDisplayTitle()</a>
```

Here you get the URL to the page.

Or am I still confused and you need something else? What you mean by "path to page"? Which path? Can you make an example?

Sorry for my confusion...

Thanks, regards, Dominic


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: Hello [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600)

Yes this part shows the link but what I would need is to show the full directory path of the page like "parent page/child page/sub child page/etc/current page", do you know what i mean ? :)


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Ok, I think you mean "breadcrumbs navigation" :)

I'm not having the perfect solution, but a hint:

```
<span>$page.getAncestors()</span>
```

[Documentation of getAncestor()](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/6.6.0/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/Page.html#getAncestors--)

This will get you a list of every ancestor.

Hope this helps :)

Regards, Dominic


author: Sylvain Leduc
body: Thanks for the tip !


author: David Vaughan
body: Hi, I just stumbled across this macro when researching solutions for a client's new requirements and it is fantastic!  

However, I do have one question, is there any way to also include the Parent page information within the table?