why has tasklist macro been removed?
Asked by Kate Hanna:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Add, Assign, and View Tasks](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590260030)*

I have a customer who wants a task list with indications of progress. Documentation on the Tasklist macro seemed to fit the bill possibly, but I can't find this macro in the macro browser. We are on 5.10.2. All I can find is Task Report, which does not have all the functionality required.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Kate,

According to the note at the bottom of [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html): "The wiki markup based [Tasklist Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/using-the-editor/working-with-macros/tasklist-macro) has been removed from the macro browser. If you have a Tasklist macro on a page it will continue to work, but you will be unable to add new Tasklists using this macro."

Digging a little deeper, this happened in the [Confluence e5.5-OD-22 release](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/14-april-2014-to-18-april-2014-686863335.html), but there's no explanation of why they removed it, just the announcement that they did.

You can probably find a suitable replacement in the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=tasks).

comments: author: Kate Hanna
body: Thanks Rob.

Frustrating because Tasklist was free as part of normal Confluence, and it had some good features, which we'd probably need to pay for in a plugin!


author: Akros Informatik
body: Atlassian is doing it's best to remove free and great working functions and 'offer' paid addons. It's a shame.


author: Zienab Esber
body: Haw to get rid of macrobeen


author: John R Schleigh
body: For what it is worth, the add-on continues to work. So if you have a page with the macro, it is easily copied. If you have the source editor add-on enabled, you can also paste this in to get the task list macro added to a page:

```
<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="71e737c8-cd51-4a53-b49b-67a94425b59a" ac:name="tasklist" ac:schema-version="1">
 <ac:parameter ac:name="title">Task List Title</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="enableLocking">true</ac:parameter>
 <ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[||Completed||Priority||Locked||CreatedDate||CompletedDate||Assignee||Name||
|F|M|F|| ||Task list item|]]></ac:plain-text-body>
</ac:structured-macro>
```

This is not guaranteed to work into the future. As [@barnesy](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502198) previously stated, it was the victim of changes made to how tasks work in Confluence. These macros are still nice, but they don't plug into the system-wide notification system which is a big part of the update in 5.5.


author: AnnWorley
body: [@Kate Hanna](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/538130) I cannot find the task list macro on my Cloud test instance but if you are still on Confluence server (5.10.x or above) you may find it on the insert menu:

![Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.33.06 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10617i49CDFA9A5271FAC0/image-dimensions/247x317?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.33.06 PM.png")

I am not sure why it doesn't appear when you type a curly bracket - I have a feeling it is by design, though.![Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.32.55 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10619iFDB18FCB2363C74E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.32.55 PM.png")

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: I found how to insert a task in Cloud - I just type \[\] :

![Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.56.16 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10621iEE8B13D6A18AAE31/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 1.56.16 PM.png")


author: Kate Hanna
body: Thanks [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040). I use that task list regularly. What I was looking for was something like this:

[Task List macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/using-the-editor/working-with-macros/tasklist-macro?_ga=2.227910365.1304207583.1512521074-481124549.1509064956)

I use server instance, about 6.3 I think, and when I insert a task list macro, I just get a checkbox list like this:

![task list.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10620i90F817CD52D96A89/image-dimensions/422x60?v=v2 "task list.PNG")

Whereas the link above describes something different:

![task list macro.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10622i743DB8946BEF5320/image-dimensions/327x217?v=v2 "task list macro.PNG")

I use task report to report on tasks, but even that does not give the experience above.

Is this no longer available?


author: barnesy
body: Hi [@Kate Hanna](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/538130), the task list maro was removed since 5.5 when we did an overhaul to how tasks work in Confluence. The link you provided is to the 5.4 docs. See [Confluence 5.5 release notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-5-5-release-notes-589366874.html) and the related upgrade notes for further details.


author: Kate Hanna
body: Thanks. I'm looking into the Task Report.


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