confluence: page properties report macro, method to total/count results?
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

We're starting to use Atlassians "page properties" \& "Page Properties Report" macros in our organisation and my user community is aksing whether it's possible to add a count / totals the results of the "page properties report" display/output (currently it lists all pages but you have to manually count how many results it returns).

Currently, I can see that adding totals is \*not\* an option within the macro editor, however I'm not sure if there's a change/feature request out there? Does anyone know whether there are alternative methods I can use to generate totals for the "Page Properties Report"? I wondered whether there's any macros/plugins that allow pages counts by page label (i.e. I caould insert the same page label used in the page properties macro).

Any insight/advice welcomed.

Many thanks!

Gavin.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Here is a user macro to count pages by label.

## @param Label:title=Label\|type=string\|required=true\|desc=Enter a label to count.

#set( $labelManager = $action.LabelManager )  
#set( $labRef = $labelManager.getLabel($paramLabel) )  
#set( $pages = $labelManager.getCurrentContentForLabel( $labRef) )

$pages.size()

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Works perectly Davin! Many thanks for sharing.


author: Roswitha Gartner
body: How can I count pages with a specific page property?

E.g. in this tutorial (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Macro>) the total amount of pages with Current Status "In progress"?

Thanks for any advice/help.


author: Christian Prestel
body: Hi,  
the macro works fine if I use it only one time on a page. But I get an error when used multiple time on the same page.

I work on Confluence 5.4.1

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

### Cause {#toc-hId-1480666696}

java.lang.RuntimeException: Error rendering template for decorator root  
at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.velocity.ApplyDecoratorDirective.render(ApplyDecoratorDirective.java:186)

caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error rendering template for decorator page  
at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.velocity.ApplyDecoratorDirective.render(ApplyDecoratorDirective.java:186)

caused by: org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getWebInterfaceContext' in class com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.ViewPageAction threw exception net.sf.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: Failed to lazily initialize a collection at template/includes/menu-macros.vm\[line 123, column 92\]  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute(ASTIdentifier.java:223)

caused by: net.sf.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: Failed to lazily initialize a collection  
at net.sf.hibernate.collection.PersistentCollection.initialize(PersistentCollection.java:201)

caused by: net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException: collection was evicted

at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.initializeCollection(SessionImpl.java:3320)


author: Andrew Kosiarski
body: I'm experiencing the same issue - specifically putting 4 or more of this macro on the same page results in the system error


author: Junio Fernandes
body: This code brings items in trash either. For example, I have 61 pages with certain label and this codes brings the number 128 (Confluence 6.4.3).


author: Katya Godneva
body: Yep, the same issue as [@Junio Fernandes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/553286).


author: Mario Malagutti
body: Sorry guys... I'm removing this useless post.


author: Junio Fernandes
body: That's my answer... I used a colleague account, unintentionally.

I resolved my question counting only pages outside trash. ContentEntityObject has a method that describes the status of the page like "getContentStatus()", or "isCurrent()/isDraft()/isDeleted()".

See: <https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/6.4.3/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityObject.html>


author: Peter Florijn
body: [@Junio Fernandes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/553286)

I have the same problem that the macro count is not correct probably that somewhere a deleted page is floating around.

can you please share your version of the macro ?

Thanks in advance.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: As an alternative you can use [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Pivot+table+macro) macro ([Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/server/overview) add-on) with Page Properties Report macro and count anything you want. Or you can just wrap Page Properties Report macro with Table Filter macro and set [row numbering](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-Addingautomaticrownumbering) to see the count of pages.


author: Jim
body: This works great for me, right out of the box, in Confluence 5.10.8, including using it multiple times on the same page - I tested up to seven lables. Thanks Davin!


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