Using the Task Report Macro - specify page.
Asked by Mark Mulert:

Cloud version, Using the Task Report Macro.

It seems I'm presented with a random subset of pages. How can I specify a specific page if it is not in the drop list?  

Or, even better, can I specify 'parent' page?


Answers:
author: Trudy Claspill
body: Hello [@Mark Mulert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1577795)

If you start typing in the name of the page from which to collect tasks, a list of potential matches will display and you can select the page you want.

comments: author: Mark Mulert
body: Hi [@Trudy Claspill](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3569011) ,

I appreciate the help. But the problem I have is the page does not show up in the drop list when I type its name. See the screenshot below.

I have a parent page named IT Meetings, And I want each Meeting page underneath it to show all open tasks from all other sibling meetings pages, those under the parent IT Meetings.

Some macros support 'parent' and 'self'. That would work great for me in this case. But I don't see a parent potion either.

Thanks for any other advice or help.

-Mark

![Mulert_TaskReport_MissingPageNames.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/279077iC7671715B7DE10C3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mulert_TaskReport_MissingPageNames.png")


author: Trudy Claspill
body: Are you adding Tasks directly to the IT Meetings page? From the images it looks like rather you have a Task Report within the IT Meetings page, but I can't see the whole page in your image.

If you type in just IT or just Meetings does it give you a list of possible matches that includes "IT Meetings"?

This macro doesn't support the parent or self options. You need to specify a Space from which it will find all tasks or specify the specific Pages from which you want tasks extracted. Or, if all the IT Biweekly pages have a label that is not used in other pages, then you could specify the Space and specify the Label.


author: Mark Mulert
body: Trudy,

I am adding tasks on each individual meetings page.

And then on each meeting page, the task report provides a great summary of all prior incomplete tasks in that meeting group. It's a standard meeting agenda item.

I use this successfully for other groups. Delivery Meetings, Exec Meetings, etc. In most of them, I see the parent page name as you first suggested. I selected it and it works great.

Even is I pick IT or Meetings, the specific parent page doesn't show up.

It feels like a bug to me. I keep going back to check and see if 'IT Meetings' finally shows up sometime. :)


author: Mark Mulert
body: Trudy,

My last reply got me thinking ...

I renamed IT Meetings to IT Meetings Parent.

Went to the Task Report and the new page name appeared.

I selected it. SUCCESS!

To improve on that, I renamed IT Meetings Parent back to IT Meetings. And it still is working with the name IT Meetings in the Tak Report.

Thanks for your help and questions. They led me to a round-about fix.

-Mark


author: Jared
body: Thanks Mark. I was having the same problem and this work around worked. I would still consider it a bug because before I renamed the meeting notes master page "Parent," it wouldn't find it even when you put in the exact page name.

[@Trudy Claspill](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3569011) Do you know if this is logged as a bug?


author: Francisco Cano Brusa
body: I had the same issue. The workaround of renaming the page worked, but seems like a bug.


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