Use automation to a add label when a page is moved to a specific parent

Max Elfving (Ålander)

Hi!

I want to add a specific label to a Confluence page if it's moved TO a specific parent.

 

When: Page moved

If: space.key = 123 AND parent = 456

Then: Add label
label

 

This almost worked as intended. It added a label when a page was moved FROM the parent instead of TO the parent.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix that?

Connor_lld39i

Hi @Max Elfving (Ålander) your question intrigued me so I tested this out myself, and this doesn't seem possible using the "When page moved" trigger. The problem with that trigger is the "space" and "parent" conditions are being evaluated against the original page location instead of the final page location. In "Jira Automation" I would use the Re-fetch issue data action, to get the new issue properties (page in this case), but there isn't an equivalent action for "Confluence Automation". 

As a workaround I was able to use the "Scheduled" trigger to add labels to the child pages of a specific parent page. My rule looks like:

• Trigger: Scheduled
• Branch rule / related entities:
  • CQL: space = 123 AND parent = 456 AND label != "ABC"
• Action: Add label "ABC"

This successfully adds the "ABC" label to the child pages on whatever schedule it runs at. Note: Remember to add the label != "label" condition to the CQL statement, so the label is only added to pages where its missing. If you don't do this the label will be added (it just overwrites the existing label) every time the rule runs, which will unnecessarily increase your automation usage which could potentially see you start hitting the usage limits.