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I want to create a birthday list based on the data stored in the user profiles. I have a text field "birthday" which is populated with dates in the form yyyy-mm-dd. I want to display birthday lists for:

• the current day
• the current month
• all users

Which queries can I use for this purpose in the Profile List macro?

Solution

birthday: *-11-*

(1*) OR (2*) 

(this is a very broad filter which might also show profiles where the birthday has not been entered)
The current date isn't contained because you cannot keep an up-to-date list this way. You would have to edit the macro daily. Likewise, you will have to edit the above macro for birthdays in the current month every month.
We also published an article about possibilities for a birthday list as a techblog article: https://www.communardo.de/techblog/2014/07/15/birthdaylist-confluence/ Please be aware that this can only be used as a basis for developing your own macro, as it uses a slightly different date format and it was written for User Profiles for Confluence version 1.9.Basics:

It's still a user macro, so "activating" it in Confluence will look the same as before. We developed it on your Confluence version and User Profiles for Confluence 2.1.0 so in case anything doesn't work as expected, please make sure you're already using the latest version.

Changes:

You can now enter the profile element name as macro parameter, meaning you can configure the macro like any old Confluence macro after you've added it to the page and then decide if it should filter according to the "Birthday" element or for example a different element "Start date".

No matter which profile element you choose, the macro still expects a date in the syntax DD.MM. The year after that will not be taken into account, so it's optional.

Resources

• Further examples how to create queries using Lucene query syntax (see section "Extended Search")
• Documentation of the Profile List macro
  
  

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