How do I insert the value of the 'Last Updated' into a Confluence page ?

[Michael Green]

How do I insert the value of the 'Last Updated' into a Confluence page ? i.e. the date and time on the last update in the version history ?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Michael Green Do you want it to be displayed on the screen or as part of the content of the page?

If displayed on screen, I see this in the top menu bar:

If within the content, I believe the other responders have covered this. 

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Michael Green I vaguely recall seeing a list of such global/system variables at some point in the last 2.5 years, but, of course, I cannot find it now.

What I did find

There is a Smart Value for this:

{{content.dateLastUpdated}}

• The date the content (page or blog) was most recently updated

This is described on this page: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/smart-values-in-confluence-automation/ 

These are listed for use in automations, but this linked page makes it sound like you can use them directly on a page: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/what-are-smart-values/ 

Please let us know if this works!

[Michael Green]

@Barbara Szczesniak  Ideally as part of the content.  I can't field Confluence doesn't have set of field codes like other editors :(... Even Microsoft Word has field codes !

[Tomislav Tobijas]

@Michael Green Interestingly, this information is not displayed on the UI 👀

There are a couple of feature requests related to these timestamps:

• CONFCLOUD-82719: Add "Last Modified Date" to the Page Details Section in Confluence 
• CONFCLOUD-76608: Need to display absolute time on confluence cloud instance.

You could see this info if you use REST API > Get page by id, where you can find the version date of creation; that just feels like overkill 😅

Maybe you could use Confluence automation to add a timestamp at the top of the page or just a comment every time the page is updated 🤔

Cheers,
Tobi

[Michael Green]

Voted.  Thanks