⚡️ Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 new features in Automation for Confluence ✨
👋 Community! Avinoam from Automation for Confluence here again with 5 new features:
- Manual triggers for end users in smart links: Use manual triggers directly from Confluence smart links in Confluence and Jira.
- Slack integration in-context discoverability: Go from manual sharing of pages to Slack to automated slack notifications based on changes made to pages.
- Manual triggers action in the content manager: Bulk update pages with automated multi-actions (i.e. add a label, change status, and assign owner)
- Support for SmartLinks in Content Tree triggers and actions in automation: Trigger automations based on the creation of a smart links in content tree or automatically create smartlinks in content tree.
- Deactivated page owners branch and template: Trigger automations based on if users are inactive/deactivated and not just based on the if the page is inactive.
Manual triggers for end users in smart links
From now, whenever you hover over a Confluence smartlink on a Confluence page or in a Jira issue, you'll see available automations directly in the hover card. This means your users will be able to execute manually triggered automations for the linked page directly from the smartlinks without having to leave what their doing!
This is designed to supercharge productivity and actionability of pages with the power of automation at your fingertips, wherever you are in Confluence or Jira.
Slack integration in-context discoverability
You know how once in a while you use the share button to share a page to Slack via our integration? Well, why not automate that based on changes made to pages, like adding labels or changing statuses, in order to streamline notifications in Slack without having to remember to share it to the right people?
Manual triggers action in the content manager
Next time you're in the Content Manager, if you want to leverage manual triggers to perform more than one action at a time in bulk to your content - you can! For example, you can create a manual trigger to change the page owner, the page status, and add a label (and much more) and use that in the Content Manager to bulk update multiple pages with multiple actions in one click. Talk about exponential productivity!!!
Support for SmartLinks in Content Tree triggers and actions in automation
A couple weeks ago we announced support for Whiteboards and Databases - so we figured why leave out our newest content type - SmartLinks in Content Tree - and all the use cases it unlocks. Today you can leverage them as either a trigger for a rule or as an action to perform.
An example use case here can be to create an entire project space in Jira when a Confluence space is created which will add the Smart Link to the Page tree.
Deactivated page owners branch and template
Last but not least, this is the missing piece to managing content as a source of truth. Till now we provided you the ability to look at content freshness from the lens of activity on the page but not the activeness of the page owner of the page itself.
Now you can create rules to automatically change page owners for example for pages that have deactivated page owners to make sure the right people are connected to the right content. We also created a new template for this, just to make it easier to get started.
When it will be available?
Most of these are already live or rolling out this week to all Confluence Premium and Enterprise customers!
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