add an automation that adds a label to a new page based on a page property

[Ruud Kluit]

hello ,

I like to  add an automation that adds a label to a new page based on a page property,

or on the value of a variable.

The variable (list) I put in the page property.

we use atlassian cloud premium. I followed the rovo example but that does not work.
like using add label : {{page.properties.<property name>.lowercase}}.

what should I do??

[James Gamble]

Hola Ruud,

The smart value you’re trying to use isn’t currently supported. Confluence Automation exposes smart values for things like page title, labels, owner, parent, dates, and other page metadata. Still, it doesn’t expose values stored inside the Content Properties/Page Properties macro as something like {{page.properties.<name>}}. Atlassian has an open suggestion specifically for this limitation.

That means the Add label action itself can accept smart values, but Automation has no native smart value that can read the property value you’ve placed inside the page. Atlassian’s current list of supported Confluence smart values is here.

If that property is the source of truth, I don’t see a clean native-only way to make the label dynamic today. I’d vote for and watch AUTO-1158, since it requests exactly the ability to retrieve Page Properties values from Confluence Automation.

If you can change the design, I’d store the value somewhere Automation can already read, such as an existing page label, rather than duplicating it inside the Page Properties macro. Otherwise, you’d be moving into REST API parsing, which is much more complicated than the Automation you’re trying to build.

Thanks,

James