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[Confluence Automation] How to get a page URL or ID of the incomplete task?

Helen Rastetska

I am trying to automate the notification about incomplete tasks assigned to the person. In the scope of this notification, I want to mention the Confluence page where the particular incomplete task is located.

Does anybody know if that is possible using current Confluence Automation tools or is it planned for future releases?

Thanks in advance,

Helen

Accepted answers

Trevor Angle

You should be able to use smart values for this! See our documentation on smart values here: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/smart-values-in-confluence-automation/

Note that the smart values may differ depending on which components you are using in the rule. If you are using the task-related triggers, all the {{page}} and {{task}} smart values should be available. If you are using the task branch with something like a scheduled trigger, then only the {{task}} smart value will be available by default.

edit: Jump to the comment with the rule structure that fully addresses this use case https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-Re-Confluence-Automation-How-to-get-a-page-URL-or/qaq-p/2691616/comment-id/312607#M312607

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Trevor Angle

You should be able to use smart values for this! See our documentation on smart values here: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/smart-values-in-confluence-automation/

Helen Rastetska

Hi @Trevor Angle ,

I am using a task branch - for all incomplete tasks I am sending the notification. So I need to:

1) Know the page URL or ID where the incomplete task is located

2) Check that this page is located in the specific section and send a notification if that's the case

I couldn't find any smart value that could resolve my issue. That is why I'm asking the community. Probably this is something Atlassian should enhance in future releases.

Thanks,

Helen

Trevor Angle

Sorry for replying so late, but I'm happy to say that the task branch now outputs the {{page}} smart value for whichever page the task is on! I think that will address your issue.

See more in this community post: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/MANY-New-Smart-Values-Added-to-Automation-for-Confluence/ba-p/2588511

Helen Rastetska

Hi @Trevor Angle ,

Thanks for the update.

With the new outputs of the task branch, it does resolve my point #1 now, however, the second one remains outstanding - "2. Check that this page is located in the specific section and send a notification if that's the case".

So my goal is to collect all uncompleted tasks from only those pages that are located under specific pages (e.g. collect incomplete action points from all Retro pages).

Inside the Task branch, I tried to add various conditions none of which are working. Here are some examples I tried (xxx, qqq, www and eee below are just the ids of the pages):

CQL condition: ancestor = xxx

CQL condition: {{page.parent.id}} IN (qqq, www, eee)

CQL condition: {{page.parent.id}} IN ("qqq", "www", "eee")

CQL condition: {{page.parent}} IN (qqq, www, eee)

CQL condition: {{page.parent.id}} = qqq OR {{page.parent.id}} = www OR {{page.parent.id}} = eee

CQL condition: {{page.parent.id}} equals qqq OR {{page.parent.id}} equals www OR {{page.parent.id}} equals eee

e.g.

In the case of an ancestor, it doesn't return anything at all. In all other cases, the rule breaks with an error that is hard to understand:

Could you please advise if there is a plan to support more comprehensive syntax in the Task branch in future?

Thanks,

Helen

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