Confluence Automation - Copy a Page then archive the original

Richard Fry

Hi

I'm using Confluence automation to try and enforce a work flow for sign off, I've hit a slight snag.

I'm trying to automate the workflow

On status change to Approved -> Move the page to the "Signed Off" area of the space.

On status change of Approved to Draft -> Take a copy of the page from the Signed Off Parent and place it into the Draft Parent.

The snags I have hit.

1. The move operator doesn't support changing the title of the page so I am using copy.

2. The archive/delete operators work on the current page only - which after a copy is the new page created rather than the source page.

 

Is there any way that I can get the "current page"  to be the source page rather than the destination page so I can archive/delete  the old page?

 

Thanks in advance.

Ritch

Barbara Szczesniak

@Richard Fry I haven't used the automation features (we are on free plan and only upgrading to standard when I'm ready to publish my content), but, in general:

• When you move the page, it no longer exists in the previous location to archive.
• When you copy the page within the same space, you have to give the page a different name, since you cannot have 2 pages with the same name in the same space.

I have been trying to figure out how to have a space for my draft documents and separate space for the published versions without having to use a 3rd-party app to sync them and make sure the links go to the correct space when I go from draft to published, while keeping a copy of the page in the draft space.

I'd like to thank you for giving my an idea that I could keep everything in one space and use a copy of the published page that only authors and reviewers have permissions to see when I need to make updates to a previously published page. I see some research and experimentation coming this week.