Page.Parent.ID Error in Confluence Automation

[Nathan Charles Unsworth]

I have a basic archival rule that runs on the first of every month.  I only want to archive pages (meeting notes) under a specific parent page.  Whenever I run the job, it generates this error:

These are the pages I'm trying to archive:

Here is my automation config:

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Nathan Charles Unsworth 

I reproduced that symptom for inactive pages which have no parent page / content, and...

• When a Jira automation rule encounters a smart value with no value (or which does not exist), it replaces the value with null, often showing no errors (unless the logic depends upon it).
• But when Confluence automation encounters the same scenario, it apparently throws an error.  I did not find any open defects for this symptom, so consider submitting it to Atlassian Support.

The workaround for your scenario is adding another smart value condition before your test to check that {{page.parent}} exists:

• smart values condition:
  • first value: {{#if(page.parent)}}{{page.parent.id}}{{/}}
  • condition: does not equal
  • second value: leave as empty
• smart values condition
  • first value: {{page.parent.id}}
  • condition: equals
  • second value: 656408636

Kind regards,
Bill

[Nathan Charles Unsworth]

Thanks, @Bill Sheboy