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Overview
From version 8.24.0 onwards, Scaffolding provides an administrator setting that allows Confluence administrators to set the default limit for User Options results. When this limit is exceeded, the processing will stop stops and an error message will be is displayed.
Why there is a limit for User Options
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This query limit is enabled by default when upgrading to Scaffolding 8.24.0. The default limit value is 250. |
Refer to the Accessing Scaffolding's Administrator Settings guide to get access to the settings page.
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go to the User Options query limit settings header
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choose the Edit button
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On this page, you can enable or disable the User Options limit by
toggling the Enabled toggle on or off
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In the User Options query limit input field (defaults to 250).
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update the value to set a new limit (if required)
choose Save
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From version 8.24.0 onwards, |
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when this limit is exceeded, the processing |
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stops and an error message |
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is displayed. |
Why there is a limit for User Options
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It is also a bad experience for users to have to select an option from a huge list of radio buttons, checkboxes, or dropdown menus if there are a huge number of user results. Setting List Data with the auto complete type is more appropriate in that use case.
This limit is different from the List Data items limit in the sense that it only targets accidental misuse of the powerful User Options macro at an upstream stage when very large user directories are being queried. On the other hand, the
This limit is different from the List Data items limit. The List Data items limit activates downstream just before rendering and it targets all List Data submacros.
Enabling or disabling the User Options limit
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This query limit is enabled by default when upgrading to Scaffolding 8.24.0. The default limit value is 250. |
Refer to the Accessing Scaffolding's Administrator Settings guide to get access to the settings page.
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go to the User Options query limit settings header
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choose the Edit button
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On this page, you can enable or disable the User Options limit
by toggling the Enabled toggle on or off
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In the User Options query limit input field (defaults to 250)
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add a value to set a new limit (if required0
choose Save