How to get recently created folder's name?

Danielle Alota

Heya braintrust, can I poke your brains for a bit?

We're looking to have two spaces talk to each other: CONFA and CONFB.

CONFA acts as a drafting space, and CONFB acts as the customer-facing space. My goal is that when a folder is created in CONFA, I want to create a matching one in CONFB

I have set my automation to run whenever a folder is created. As I create the folder, I name it "testfolder". Logging {{content}}, I can see the following:

{id=323190838, type=folder, title=Untitled folder 2025-08-24........}}

As above, the title seems to be pulling its default one rather than the title I gave it. As such, I assume this automation runs as soon as I press the + button rather than the expected behaviour of waiting until I set a folder name.

Does anyone know a fix or workaround for this? Perhaps a {{recentlyCreatedFolder}}, or a {{triggerFolder.name}} somewhere...?

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Danielle Alota -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I recall this is a known problem with the Folder Created trigger and available smart values, but there does not seem to be an open defect / suggestion for it in the public backlog.

A workaround I have used is passing the {{folder.id}} to call the REST API endpoint with the Send Web Request action.  If you want to try that, here are some references to help:

• https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-folder/#api-folders-id-get
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Automation-for-Jira-Send-web-request-using-Jira-REST-API/ba-p/1443828

 

Kind regards,
Bill