JIRA Automation: Create and Publish a Copy of a Confluence Page

Question

Today, we have the option to create a Confluence page when an issue is created, but it has to be based on a template. There is no option to copy an existing page.

Is there a way to automate this process, either using JIRA Automation, or another approach?

Darryl Lee · Answer

@Bruno Ribeiro _Brunoxweb_ (Xavi) - did this help you? We didn't really get into the details, but what I think you could do is use the Send Web Request Action to call the Confluence API, using the same "Custom Data Payload" as what's in the --data section of my curl command.

This link has details on how you set up Personal Token that you can use to authenticate within Automation:

* Automation for Jira - Send web request using Jira REST API

(It says JIRA but the instructions are the same for Confluence.)

Darryl Lee · Answer

Hey @Bill Sheboy yeah, they introduced this I guess back in March 2024: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Jira-Automation-to-Create-a-Whiteboard/qaq-p/2649674 But as @Bruno Ribeiro _Brunoxweb_ points out you can only create pages based on a template, and even more annoying, the only thing you can customize about the page is the Title. Wow didn't know about the Copy page endpoint. And... it works! Neat. What tripped me up is that I had to NOT include the body that was included in the example, as that's optional. So the curl example worked, without that: curl --request POST \ --url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/copy' \ --user 'email@example.com:' \ --header 'Accept: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{ "copyAttachments": true, "copyPermissions": true, "copyProperties": true, "copyLabels": true, "copyCustomContents": true, "destination": { "type": "space", "value": "" }, "pageTitle": "" }'

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Bruno Ribeiro _Brunoxweb_ -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

From where in Jira do you see an option to create a Confluence page when you create a Jira issue?  Is that from a marketplace addon / app?

Regarding automation rules, I seem to recall there is a REST API endpoint to copy a Confluence page based on its ID value, and if there is...that could be called with the Send Web Request action.

If I am incorrect and that endpoint does not exist, one could instead use a REST API endpoint to read a page's content and then use another to create a new page using the first one's contents (making modifications as needed).

Kind regards,
Bill