Confluence Automations - scheduled page copy

Question

Hi everyone,

I'd like to user confluence automations to schedule a page tree to be copied into a different space every night. I've got two problems:

1. If I use the schedule trigger how do I determine the current page?

2. Is it possible to include child pages? if yes - is there a limit to the number of children?

Thanks for your help, Anne

Andrei Mokin · Answer

Hi ,

have same trouble, not able to copy page with related childrens by using Automation...(idea here is to copy to another space as well rename each page)

Kind Regards

Anne Warmer · Answer

Hi Darryl,

thanks for your answer. As we don't have scriptrunner licensed in confluence we are currently looking into the "send a Web Request" action of automations and trying to copy the pages via rest api  (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-content---children-and-descendants/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-pagehierarchy-copy-post)

According to the Atlassian support. That should be feasible.

Darryl Lee_teniuw · Answer

To use a scheduled trigger to copy a specific page, you'll need to use a CQL condition. Weirdly CQL doesn't let you specify a Page ID (which would be the most foolproof method), so you have to do something like:

space=HELP and title="YOUR PAGE TITLE"

And ugh, yeah, it looks like the Copy page action does *not* give you an option to copy children.

So... kind of a bummer.

If you really needed this functionality and can't wait for Atlassian to someday add it, you might need to purchase ScriptRunner, which has a built-in Copy Page Tree script.

What I don't see is how to get the "code" for that built-in script so that you can make it a scheduled Script Job.

Maybe somebody from Adaptavist could weigh in on that.