How can I automate the creation of a "Live Doc" instead of a standard page in Confluence Automation?

Wayne Braganza_k607un

I have a scheduled automation rule that creates a weekly design page using the "Publish new page" action.

While the automation works perfectly, it creates a standard Confluence page by default. Our team has moved entirely to the new "Live Doc" format for real-time collaboration, and I find myself having to manually click "Convert to Live Doc" every time the automation runs.

Is there a way to force the "Publish new page" action to use the live doc content type instead of page?

Salih Tuç

Hi @Wayne Braganza ,

You cannot directly add a Live Doc using automation since automation is not just creating page, it is "publishing" it and the publish is for regular page. I believe in the near future we may have that feature and I will check the future roadmap for Confluence for that purpose.

But for now, you can use the old-school way: Rest API. Just click "Send web request" as action and call the /pages endpoint.

Note that the "subtype": "live" part is the critical one since we want to create a Live Doc.

Best,