Is this really ready for Prime Time? Confluence Rovo usage is particularly terrible

[Jo-Lee Bertrand]

I attempted to use Rovo to help me do some SIMPLE tasks in Confluence (rename a chart, etc.).  Tried for about 2 hours. Gave up in mass frustration. 90% of the responses were not even factual. Maybe Atlassian needs to hire back those folk it let go and let Rovo go...Sheesh.

[Ajay _view26_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jo-Lee Bertrand 

Rovo's capabilities within Confluence is still maturing, and there's a meaningful gap between what people expect from an AI assistant embedded in a productivity tool and what it can reliably deliver today.

A few things worth knowing:

What Rovo is currently good at in Confluence:

• Searching across your instance and summarizing content from multiple pages.
• Answering questions about your Confluence content (e.g., "what's our refund policy?" if it's documented somewhere).
• Drafting new content or expanding on bullet points.

Where it struggles (and where your frustration likely came from):

• Direct manipulation of page elements (renaming a chart, reformatting a table, moving sections around) is either not supported or very unreliable. Rovo is primarily a search-and-generate tool right now, not a page editor. It can suggest edits, but it doesn't have the fine-grained control to modify embedded macros or chart titles directly.
• Factual accuracy about how to do things in Confluence is hit-or-miss. It can hallucinate menu paths, button names, or settings that don't exist in the current UI.

For structural/formatting tasks (renaming charts, adjusting macros), you're better off editing the page directly. Rovo isn't wired into the macro layer yet in a way that's reliable.

For search and knowledge retrieval across your space, it's genuinely useful — that's where it shines.

[Jo-Lee Bertrand]

Fair points, but then the responses from Rovo should be "I can't do that", as opposed to, "Look! I did it!" and in fact it either wrecked what was previously functional or did exactly nothing at all. Buggy is an understatement. 

[Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_]

Hi @Jo-Lee Bertrand, your frustration is understandable. The bigger issue isn't that Rovo can't perform certain Confluence actions—it's that it sometimes reports success when no change was made or when the result isn't what was requested. Several community members have reported similar experiences with page editing, page creation, and macro-related actions.

Today, Rovo is generally more reliable for search, summarization, and content generation than for modifying Confluence content. For actions involving charts, macros, page structure, or formatting, it may attempt the task but fail to execute it correctly while still returning a positive response.

That gap between reported success and actual outcome is what many users find most challenging, and it's an area where the product is still evolving.