Build a Approval form in Confluence

[Siddhartha Vatsal]

We have to build a approval form on top of many pages. It will have 4 Columns - 

S. No., Approver name, Status and Approval date. 

by default Approver button will be enabled for Users to approve. As soon as Approver Clicks the approve button, Status should change to Approve and Approval date should be populated with current date. I have attached a screenshot for reference what we are trying to build. Please help me to build this reusable macro. Which can I plugin in all the pages wherever required. Thanks in advance. 

[Matthew Joslin_AppFox_]

Approval forms in Confluence are natively quite limited. It’s usually a mix of page restrictions, comments, or manual status tracking rather than a structured approval flow. Marketplace apps are generally where people look in order to formalize the process.

Approvals for Confluence is one that lets you build proper approval workflows directly into pages, with defined approvers, statuses, and audit trails in macros and the page byline so information isn't getting lost on ad hoc comments or updates.

Especially useful if you need something repeatable (policies, docs, releases, etc.) and exportable rather than one-off approvals. Also comes with macros if you have lots of stakeholders working on one doc and want more granular approvals on sections or distinct parts of longer documents, not just at the page level.

Worth considering depending on how structured you need the process to be 👍

[James Conway]

Hi @Siddhartha Vatsal 

As @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- and @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ have said to support your use case in Confluence Cloud you would need to consider one of the plugins available on the Atlassian Marketplace. One option could be Comala Document Management, which allows you to build a completely customised review process and then assign reviewers to approve your documents.

You can get a free trial from the Atlassian Marketplace, and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to our Customer Success team at https://support.comalatech.com

Kind regards

James
Senior Product Manager 

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You cannot do that on cloud, without implementing (or using) a plugin. It is just not possible

Alex

[Siddhartha Vatsal]

Thanks @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ 

[Vero Rivas]

Hi @Siddhartha Vatsal 

   Look at this post

   https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-workflows-approval

Cheers

[Siddhartha Vatsal]

Thanks @Vero Rivas I am looking for something in-built. We don't want to include 3rd party apps. Is there a way we can achieve through native capabilities of confluence?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, Confluence is a wiki, not a workflow or process engine.  You'll need to add quite a lot of code to implement a workflow engine, but I'd strongly recommend getting an existing app to do it all for you.

[Siddhartha Vatsal]

Alright thanks. Will recommend to use plugin to my team.