Task Report macro missing older tasks after update
Asked by Gerald Schneider:

After updating our Confluence instance to version 8.7.1 the task report macros stopped showing tasks that had been created before the update.

All tasks that are newly created since the update are shown properly.

According to both of these KB articles:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/certain-tasks-do-not-show-up-in-the-task-report-macro-658179671.html>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/task-report-macro-is-showing-tasks-from-previous-versions-of-the-page-1050546046.html>

it should suffice to delete the content of the table *AO_BAF3AA_AOINLINE_TASK* and restart confluence to have the table rebuilt. The mentioned entry in the table *BANDANA* does not exist.

I tested this approach on a test instance before doing it on the production instance, but even after restarting Confluence multiple times the table is not populated again. The macro doesn't show any task at all.

Flushing Caches or rebuilding the Content Index does not help, but I didn't really expect them to.

How can I rebuild the table, or is there any other way to show all tasks in the task report macro?


Answers:
author: Charlie Marriott
body: Hi [@Gerald Schneider](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/518709)

Thanks for your post and sorry to hear you've encountered some problems with the task report macro. We have some fixes for this coming in Confluence Data Center 8.7.2, which should be released in the next few weeks.

Kind regards,

Charlie

comments: author: Gerald Schneider
body: I can confirm that the issue is fixed with Confluence 8.7.2. Thank you very much.


author: Charlie Marriott
body: Great to hear [@Gerald Schneider](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/518709), thanks for letting me know!

Take care,

Charlie


author: Stefan Salzl
body: Hi [@Charlie Marriott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/616774)

Is there any workaround for this too?

Even though it?s a real pain in the ass to not seeing old tasks an update of the whole environment isn?t that easy for companies with big systems.

Any suggestion?

Best  
Stefan


author: Marco Bosetti
body: There have been some code changes for the inline task in Confluence v8.7.1.

We have found in some cases adding the dark feature to disable the new code changes has helped to fix the issue

* Trigger the Full site index:

Go to

<https://confluence-staging.eoc.ch/plugins/servlet/rebuildindex>

and click on Site reindex

* Go to \<confluence-url\>/admin/darkfeatures.action

Add the parameter below:

confluence.task-report.use-database-for-reports

comments: author: Gerald Schneider
body: For me this resulted in no tasks being visible at all, neither old nor new. Luckily, removing the entry from the darkfeatures returned the previous state.


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body: the same thing happened to us


author: Grayson Horne
body: We are also having this issue after we updated to 8.7.1. Ticking/unticking (or vice-versa) the tasks in the pages causes them to show up again, but this obviously isn't a solution.


author: Marco Bosetti
body: Good morning,  
We also encountered the problem as soon as we updated to 8.7.1.

The workaround didn't work.


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