Was excited to see the Archive feature but immediately dreaded using it. I archived a top level section with a ton of child pages. It only archived the main page (as I see this was intended now) and left the child pages hanging out causing quite a bit to clean up. The ability to archive all child pages would make this feature usable.
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But of course it is going to be a "Premium" feature.
Here is what is happening, in my opinion:
Atlassian pushed a price increase of last October. Depending on your instance and license count, this increase may have been as high as 325%. Since then, many have been complaining that the list of "outstanding" features never seem to be implemented and the ROI on the price increase is non-existent for the customer. Atlassian, still not happy with how deep their hand is in your pocket, is pushing out "Premium" (and soon 'Enterprise"). Don't be fooled. This is nothing more than another price increase "hidden" behind the deployment of basic functionality every other tracking tool already offers.
There was a point in time when I was "all in". I jumped on the bandwagon, drank the kool-aid, and told everyone to follow me to the land of Atlassian. They had good products, relatively low startup costs, and "plugins" you could buy as needed to fill any functionality gaps. The company itself seemed to have a very strong "customer first" culture.
Everything seems to have changed when they went "public". It was a big change for the company, but they insisted it would not change their company culture. We were promised the customer is, and always will, come first. Yet here we are, just a few years later, watching Atlassian cater to the stakeholders and the price of stock. Price increase, after price increase but no new functionality, limited API access, no DB access, standard features still under developed, and bugs open for years. Lest we forget about UI changes and search/navigation changes that seem to have hosed both usability and performance. As a customer, at this point in time, I feel as if I am nothing more than a mere inconvenience Atlassian has to deal with in order to do business.
And I get it, Atlassian is a business. They do need to make money. But doing so at the expense of your customers is a quick way lose your market share and tank your business.
As I stated in the beginning, this is nothing more than my opinion. I have no insight to Atlassian, I have no idea what their plans are. I can only state what I have viewed for myself and my interpretations of that view.
It would be great if you could arrange the archive pages into folders or back into having a parent page, so it functions like a file, instead of just a dump of pages. Is it possible to move them around and group them properly, especially when you are arching as you go? I want to be able to archive a page into a folder in arhvie.
TLDR;It offersauto-archive and delete for all Confluence Cloud editions. If you are using the Free tier, the auto-delete automaton is available for you as well!
The new feature allows defining automation schemes which are collections of automations and which can be applied to any Confluence space. An automation itself is defined by:
It is an extensible framework that introduces the "archive" and "delete" actions in this release. If there is interest, we will introduce additional actions in the future.
(Please note that Better Content Archiving is a free/paid and supported app, available for all deployment types and I'm part of the team developing it.)
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