Confluence Automation: how to create a task in Confluence?

Verena Gisler

Hi all

I would like to create task in Confluence, triggered by the change of the status of a page.

For example, as soon as the status of a page is changed to "TO BE REVIEWED", a new task to review that page for a specific person should be created. It can be created on the same page or in a separate task page, whatever.

I could not find how to do this so far. In the meantime, I managed to make automation create a task in Jira, and then I can create a page in Confluence showing all these Jira tasks. But as the tasks need to be finished within Confluence, I do not see the point why I need to make the long way via Jira.

Is there any possibility to create a task directly in Confluence?

I know that Confluence tasks are more like done/not done while Jira has a lot more possibilities of tracking tasks. But done/not done would be enough in this case.

Thanks!

Verena

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Verena Gisler 

There is no automation rule action to add a task to a page.

A complicated workaround is using the REST API with the Send Web Request action:

• use the REST API to GET the content for the page, including the task list within the HTML <ac:task-list> your task list </ac:task-list>
• identify the last task ID in the list; this is needed to increment it later
• use the REST API to GET the current page version; this is needed to increment later
• use text functions to add your new task to the end of the list, before the ending tag, constructed in the correct format
• use the REST API to PUT the updated page content, remembering to increment the page version number

 

Kind regards,
Bill