Confluence Automation to check page for specific text

[Ian MacDonald]

Hello,

I am looking to setup an automation that will run on page edit that looks for a specific text string. If this string is not present on the page, I want to send an email.

Is this currently possible? I included a picture of my very simple automation below. Currently this automation always returns true, regardless of if the text is present on the page or not. Thank you

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ian MacDonald 

Are you trying to exactly match on the phrase "Document Header Info"?

Your CQL expression uses the CONTAINS ~ operator to search for that text, and I hypothesize those three words are on each page you are checking.  I recommend pausing to verify that.

And, the documentation for the CQL CONTAINS operator states it supports the "exact phrase" syntax like JQL:

text ~ "\"Document Header Info\""

But, there is an open defect indicating that does not work due to encoding problems: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-71411

One possible workaround for this is to get the page content using the REST API and the Send Web Request action, and then use a rule condition on the web response.  That will allow performing the exact phrase matching.

Kind regards,
Bill