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Editing created Confluence pages from within Jira automation

Yury Gorshkov

Hello fellow Atlassians,

One my use cases is creating HR tickets for onboarding, offboarding and team change requests. I see that Jira now has the ability to create Confluence pages from templates using Jira automation.

I'm creating a master issue for HR, as well as lots of subtasks going to different departments/stakeholders/tool owners in the company. I want all of these people to have access to a common page containing all the changes that need to be done so that people could coordinate and not get lost in this system of multiple tickets.

My question is, is it possible to edit the page that the automation has created to include information from the issue that created it? E.g. information from fields, and a link to the issue that triggered the creation of the page.

Many thanks.

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Anzar

Hi @Yury Gorshkov ,

You can use smart values in that case.
Please refer to this documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-create-confluence-page-automatically-with-jira-issue-content-once-jira-issue-created-1189506097.html

Under custom data section of your automation action, you can set the content according to you and use smart values to depict Jira issue custom fields.

Please let me known if this helps.

Regards,

Anzar Khan

Yury Gorshkov

Hiyas! Thanks for your input, will check!

Yury Gorshkov

Also, two questions:

Can I use the built-in 'Create confluence page' action to create a page from an existing template and populate it with the values from the automation?
If not, can I do the same using a raw API call like you suggested?

I don't really want to keep the whole page markup inside the automation, though it's possible as a last resort.

Anzar

Can I use the built-in 'Create confluence page' action to create a page from an existing template and populate it with the values from the automation?
>>I don't think it is currently possible.
If not, can I do the same using a raw API call like you suggested?
>>You can do it via a raw API as mentioned here
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-custom-content/#api-custom-content-post
You can configure this rest call in a script on an event or a post function.

Let me know if this helps and don't forget to accept my answer

Charlie Gavey

Hi @Yury Gorshkov - the "Edit page" Automation action is now available in both Jira & Confluence: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-quot-Edit-page-quot-action-now-available-in/ba-p/3066529

Armin Meyer _Seibert - Coderay_

Hi Yury,

if third party apps are an option for you, Autopage could be a solution for you. It's not only designed to create pages in Confluence with one time insertion of Jira field information. It keeps the information from a referred Jira work item in the Confluence page permanently in sync. We are seeing a lot of people using the app in HR-Scenarios.

You can find us at the Atlassian Marketplace

➡️ https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218503

thomas_dedieu_ext

Very nice and useful. But it seems like it's not managing well concurrent accesses to Confluence: when multiple "Edit page in Confluence" are triggered, some are in error: "Failed to save edited page".
Would you better call it async, or add a longer timeout (it seems to be very small). Or maybe there is something to configure somewhere?

Seems not being compatible with the "live doc" either.

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