Delete the contents from a page before updating the same page

[Prasanna Subramaniam]

Dear Community,

I am using a Scheduled Job automation to generate a Confluence page. This job runs daily and creates a page with the list of open risks across my teams.

A Rovo agent is used to read the risk registers from multiple teams and consolidate them into this page.

Before each run, I want the existing content on the page to be completely cleared and then updated with the latest risks. Currently, the new content is getting appended to the existing page, which is not the desired behavior.

Thank you

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Prasanna Subramaniam 

Can you share with us screen images showing the entirety of the rule you are currently running?

[Prasanna Subramaniam]

 Hello @Trudy Claspill ,

Below is the sequence

Triggers

- Scheduled at 12 Noon on week days

Then

- Risk Rovo Agent to consolidate the data

And

- Edit confluence page

[Trudy Claspill]

Thank you for the additional information.

Can you share with us the details of the Edit Page action?

[Prasanna Subramaniam]

I see this at the top - Append content to the end of a page.

But I didn't set that . How do I change it

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello Prasanna,

Unfortunately you cannot change that. The Edit Page action appends content to the page by design.

If you want to replace the content entirely you would need to use a Send Web Request action to update the page:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-page/#api-pages-id-put

Or, delete the original page and create an entirely new page rather than edit the existing page.

[Prasanna Subramaniam]

Thanks for your Inputs @Trudy Claspill .

Is there an option to Delete the confleunce page by automation ?

[Trudy Claspill]

Yes, there is a Delete Page action listed in the Confluence Cloud Automation documentation on the Actions page:

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/actions-in-confluence-automation/

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

@Prasanna Subramaniam If I were you, I would:

• always create a new page, but I would include the current date in the page title (e.g. "Risk registers on 04/07/2026")
• before creating the new page, archive (not delete) all pages whose title matches this pattern 

This way you will also have an archive of all previous risks, which can be valuable in the future. (Hard deletion should be avoided in most cases, IMO.)