Automation to add a specific label to child pages

Question

I would like to add some automation that adds a specific label to child pages of a parent page

e.g.

Parent Page is called "TopicA Landing page"

Scenario 1: Child page is created, label "TopicA" automatically is added

Scenario 2: An existing Page is moved from another location to become child page, label "TopicA" automatically is added

Thanks

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Tim Stockford

How do you define workflow, as Confluence has no workflows.

Tim Stockford_cei2qc · Answer

Hi Marc,

Thank you for the quick reply.  I see the challenge.

* It could be a rule that applies a label that is statically defined in the workflow (and not dynamically interpreted from the title).
* Shouldn't be a problem if the label is statically defined in the worklow?
* Good point.  It doesn't have to remove other labels, I would just like it to add a specific label to the child pages.  So I guess in theory if the parent was moved to become a child of another page which had a similar workflow (maybe applying a label called "TopicB"), then it would add a "TopicB" label to this parent and child pages... which is ok.

So in the example above, the automation workflow would reference a specific page that is the parent, and also references a static label defined as "TopicA" in the workflow.

Does this make it more achievable?

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Tim Stockford

Welcome to the community.

I think this can work, but I have a lot of doubts.

* How does the rule know what part of the parent page should be the label?
* What if someone changes the parent page title, the new sub pages will have a different label!
* What if the Main page is moved to become a child page of another parent?