Automation in Confluence Data Center?

Question

I am not seeing automation in Confluence Data Center which I need to set up an article review timer. It was available in Confluence Cloud, is it not in Data Center? If there is no automation, how can I do this with Confluence Data Center out of the box?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

@Brady Buttrey It is not very likely that Atlassian will offer Confluence Automation for DC in the foreseeable future (ever?).

If you are open to trying apps, the the Better Content Archiving app does exactly what you look for! It checks pages that haven't been updated in the last N days and supports page-specific expiration dates. You don't need to tag the pages and email people, because it has an automation notification system that can email page authors, modifiers, owners and so on.

Overall, it full automates the process that you are trying to implement half-manually.

(Discl. this is a paid and supported app developed by our team.)

Brady Buttrey · Answer

That is unfortunate. Do you know of anyways that I could setup a "review timer" on articles? For example, if an article was created a year ago, I would like it to notify someone or tag the article so we are aware that it needs to be reviewed. I would like for this to be something out of the box and not something that I need to get something from the marketplace for.

Kristian Klima_gtcuat · Answer

@Brady Buttrey

Automation is Cloud-only and I wouldn't bet on getting it on DC. Based on what was voiced at Atlassian Teams, there are Cloud features that won't make it to the DC.

Having said that, for your use case, there might be a workflow app on the marketplace that does that.