How can I use Jira Automation Send Web Request to Update an Existing Confluence Page?

Question

I have a Jira Automation that creates a new Confluence page and this works well, but I want to edit/add content to an existing Confluence page with a web request. I'm running into an issue where my original content on the page is completely deleted, but I only want to add content, not remove it. Is this possible? I'm using a PUT method with Custom data request body: { "version": { "number": "{{#=}}{{webResponse.body.version.number}} + 1{{/}}" }, "type": "page", "status":"current", "title": "Test Page", "body": { "storage": { "value": "

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{{webResponse.body.body.storage.value}}", "representation": "storage" } } }

Rick Westbrock · Answer

The Get page by id API will return a body element which has three child elements:

* storage
* atlas_doc_format
* view

Each of those children has two child elements (string):

* representation
* value

It looks like the Get pages API also returns the body element but it only has the storage and atlas_doc_format children.

I haven't personally used either of these APIs so I can't speak to how you would use the different body child elements.

Julia Casciato_k5ka2w · Answer

Do you know how I could retrieve the current body and set as a variable to reuse?

And I agree, it would be super useful if they had an API call for this.

Rick Westbrock · Answer

From what I have seen there is no way to add content to an existing page. Instead you would have to retrieve the current body of the page into a variable, update the variable to insert the additional content then make the API call to Confluence passing the modified body content to update the page.

This is a technical constraint that we ran into in the past and it's unfortunate that they don't provide an API to append to the end of the page body.