Delete a Page generated by a database page link on deletion of a row

Question

I am new to Confluence databases and am setting up a database with a 'page link' field called Vendor. When the Vendor name is entered the page is created; however, when the row is deleted the corresponding page is not deleted. Is there a way to do this so I do not need to search for orphaned pages every time a delete I row that contains a 'page link' field?

Kind regards,

Glyn

Glyndwr Bartlett · Answer

@Barbara Szczesniak Thank you for your input, greatly appreciated.

It would be good if, when setting up the page link, there was a choice to Delete or Archive the page when the row is deleted.

Kind regards,

Glyn

Barbara Szczesniak · Answer

@Glyndwr Bartlett Welcome to the community.

There might be something that you could do with Automation. Your post indicates that you are on the Free plan, though, so you only get 10 rule executions per month for your entire instance (https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Introducing-Confluence-Automation-in-Free-and-Standard-plans-Dec/ba-p/2890646).

Instead, you might make handle this via your processes. I presume that you only allow certain people to delete the rows of the database. You might simply instruct them to open the linked page from the database in a new tab before deleting the row, and then they should archive or delete the page after deleting the row.

Personally, I would lean toward archiving, in case you need to preserve the information on the page somewhere and be aware that you already had the page if someone adds the same vendor again. That's up to you and your needs, though.