How to copy a set of Confluence pages and Edit their content

[Drew Nedderman]

We keep track of various release items in Confluence. We have a parent page for each release with two layers of child pages. Each of those pages contains details specific to each release. For example:

• 6.73 Release
  • 6.73 QA
    • 6.73 QA Checklist
    • 6.73 Focused Regression
    • 6.73 Testing
  • 6.73 Issues Noted
  • 6.73 Release Checklist
  • 6.73 Release Retro

I can easily copy the pages and edit the page titles using the Copy function. That works great.

What I'd like to do is create the copy and also modify various macros and text within the new pages. For example, I have a table that includes dates for code freeze and release, as well as a Status macro that indicates the state of the release.

Some of the pages use the Jira Work Items macro to display work items. Each macro has a search query that needs to be updated to match the corresponding release version. For example, change `labels = Automation_6.73` to `labels = Automation_6.74`

Manually updating these things is fairly tedious. I would like to know if I can use the Confluence API to create each new set of pages when needed.

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Drew Nedderman 

You may want to look at Scroll Documents by K15t. It's an app that allows you to do a proper semantic versioning in Confluence.

The way the app works is that you one permanent 'working version' and once you finalize the content for a specific version, you create a snapshot (version). This means that you 

• will be able to insert the right macros, links etc. freely into the working version
• save the specific versions with version specific details
• modify saved versions if needed

Users will be able to browse individual versions, switch between them, etc.

Basically, this app offers a bona fide docs versioning solution.

I wrote a little article on the subject (although from a different perspective).

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Product-docs-reloaded-semantic-versioning-meets-continuous/ba-p/3025841