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Is it possible for a page to automatically inherit its parent labels?

Deb_iziot1

Now that automation is available to use, is it possible to create a rule so that:

When a page is published it automatically inherits all the same labels from the parent page?

I've been looking through documentation but it still isn't super clear for me. TY!

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Sheerine Baucum

@Darryl Lee @Deb This is a great use case for including smart values within labels. Our team is looking into this to see what options exist. I will follow up after our investigation. Thank you!

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Darryl Lee

Hi @Deb -

Ooooh, I finally get to answer a question about Automation for Confluence. Exciting!

(Upgrades personal Confluence Cloud instance to free trial of Premium...)

Ok, so... the bad news is, it doesn't seem like this is available.

There is an Add label action

There is a Smart Value for parent pages {{parent.page.labels}}

BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO use a Smart Value in the Add labels action. Boooooo.

Feature request for @Sheerine Baucum - I don't see this one filed yet. :-/

Deb_iziot1

Hi @Darryl Lee

TY for your answer!

Is this dependent on the type of the plan? Premium vs. Confluence Cloud?

Sheerine Baucum

@Darryl Lee @Deb This is a great use case for including smart values within labels. Our team is looking into this to see what options exist. I will follow up after our investigation. Thank you!

Sheerine Baucum

@Deb Automation is currently only available in Confluence Cloud Premium.

Sheerine Baucum

@Darryl Lee @Deb The smart value {{parent.page.labels}} is not a valid smart value, which is why it cannot be added to labels. However, you should be able to include valid smart values within the add labels component as long as the output returns valid characters.

Regarding functionality around inheriting parent page label - this cannot be accomplished right now, but we are aware of this concern and will look into prioritizing it based on our other requirements. Thank you for the feedback!

Derek Farr_g3e31p

Forgive me if I should create a new question for this, but I've run into issues trying to use (what I think are valid) smart values in labels. For example, {{page.author.fullName}}.

In my screenshot below, you can see that my rule failed with errors, even though the audit log shows the correct value is being retrieved for {{page.author.fullName}}. Am I doing something wrong? And are the smart values that are valid for labels documented somewhere?

Darryl Lee

Ohey @Derek Farr -

Labels can't have spaces.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-37363

I guess they need to update the error messages for Confluence:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/automationkb/automation-for-jira-fails-to-copy-components-list-to-label-with-error-message-the-label-contains-spaces-which-is-invalid-1072473388.html

Good suggestion there to add something like

<span>.replace</span><span>(</span><span>" "</span><span>,</span><span>"-"</span><span>)</span>

or maybe and underscore, if you prefer.

emiliano.pedroza

@Darryl Lee Any updates on this? Is there a workaround now?

bob.dalm

Hi folks, this works;

Ilonna Pinion

HI @bob.dalm

Is this a solution for Confluence Cloud or a different Confluence instance?

Thanks.

bob.dalm

Hi @Ilonna Pinion

Yea, Cloud

Adam Krusic

Can confirm this works in Confluence Automation. You need to add {{label}} in the Add label action, but when the automation runs, it does shows the parent labels.

2024-06-06 12_25-screenshot_2.png

One other fun thing is if you want to inherit multiple parents (parent of a parent), you can update the smart value to include an extra ".parent" like {{content.parent.parent.labels.name}} and it will get labels from the parent's parent. Useful if you're implementing this and inherited labels don't already exist.

2024-06-06 12_19-screenshot.png

We have up to 5 levels of parents in one space, so I have an automation that branches 5 times to capture each level. The cool thing is even if a 4th or 5th level parent doesn't exist, the automation still adds the 1st-3rd parent's labels succesfully to the child page It will technically error out on the audit log if a parent doesn't exist, so you may need to turn off the notifications if this is what you need.

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