Using Ancestor in Automations with CQL

[Rhys Gottwald]

Hi I want to make an automation that is triggered if the pages ancestor is "Knowledge"

I see I have to use the page ID to do do this, but I would like to do this with page title, so that I can apply the automation to any space and any page that has an ancestor titled Knowledge.

Is there any way to achieve this?

[Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Accepted solution]

I don't think so.

CQL would need a feature called "subqueries" and then you could write something like this:

ancestor in (title = "Knowledge")

...but subqueries are not available.

Note that JQL (the similar query language in Jira) does not support subqueries, either, but there are apps for JQL that implement that concept.