Using automation rules to change page status

Question

Hi all!

I would like to use aytomation rules to automatically change the status in a page to one of my predetermined statuses. Lets say Approved.

I would like the page status to change to approved automatically is someone perfoms one of the following actions (not all of them - i am happy if one is possible o made to trigger the change) 
1) Write the word "approved" in a version comment while publishing or updating the page

2) Fill in a name in an manual approval table, or freetext in the document (Think Approved by: @username

Laura Campbell · Answer

Hi @Eva Daskalaki and welcome to Community!

What you would need is to figure out a trigger that works correctly.

I haven't tested out the new Rovo condition for a trigger, but what about something like a 'page edited' trigger with conditions and using the Rovo condition to look at the body of the page? You could also potentially use CQL to build your condition.

If you haven't had a chance, check out the documentation for triggers https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/triggers-in-confluence-automation/

and conditions https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/conditions-in-confluence-automation/

Brandi Guess · Answer

I think you could but you may be over complicating this.

The approver could just change the status, the history will tell you who approved it and when.  less steps, less work, all the data is still there.