Automation for Confluence - Support for Databases is here!!! 🧰

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👋 Community! Avinoam from Confluence Automation here again, and this time, I'm super excited to let you know that we now support Database triggers and actions, as well as templates, to enable you to create Databases directly from automation!

What's available and what can you do with it?

Let's start from the templates which are basically a pre packaged set of use cases for you to kick off your use of Databases with automation. The primary use case to to automatically create a Database once a page has been created that related to a certain process that can gain value from having a whiteboard involved, for example: Whenever a page is created related to "Project planning" add a child Database to it as part of gathering all your project's information in one source of truth.

Once you land in Automation for Confluence, you can quickly search for "Database" and as part of the Collaborate category you'll see three new templates highlighting the following use cases for systematic Database creation. Here's one example template:

Built-in AI

You'll notice once you click into any of the templates that we've already included the AI Condition to find any related content in the title of the page. If you want to broaden this approach you can change it to look for related content in the page body, and of course if you're looking for a 1:1 match you can change this condition to the smart value condition. 

When it will be available?

This is already live to all Confluence Premium and Enterprise customers!

We want to hear from you!

We’d love your feedback so please feel free to schedule time with us directly here or drop a comment on this post 

[Filip Callewaert]

Just fainted after reading this news!! At Venice beach btw… 

[Peter Quick]

@Avinoam ,

Slight tangent; is there any news about pricing for Confluence Databases. The Beta FAQ states "Pricing is subject to change when the beta period ends."

It's a great feature, we've been testing on our Sandbox site. I haven't rolled-out the Beta to our prod site until we know about pricing.

Cheers,

PeterQ

[Matt Reiner [K15t]]

Well this just made my day!

[Dan Tombs]

Brilliant news. Really like to see that automation is going across the entire area of Confluence. Great work team!!!

[Matt Reiner [K15t]]

Well this is amazing news! Had to make a video!
https://youtu.be/TPKbwF24dEo

[Steffen Burzlaff _K15t_]

Wow, amazing update! Have to create some automations now :)

[Avinoam]

@Matt Reiner [K15t] you're a star!!! ❤️

[Christian Voigt]

Great news. 

However: are there any plans for adding additional triggers and/or conditions, e.g. changes to a value in a certain field or verifying the value in a date field?

Reason for asking is we would like to send an mail when a certain date defined for an entry in the database is reached/overdue

[Avinoam]

@Christian Voigt the next step we're working on is supporting automations based on and for creation of new fields and entries (rows and columns) for Databases.

Love the overdue date use case and we'll look further into this!

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

@Avinoam is there any progress/date on the support of adding entries?

We need that for the following use case:

We use the Page status in a couple of spaces. We would like to create an overview of all pages including the status. Database is helpful, but currently needs to be filled manually.
We would like to populate the Page Link automatically for every new page in a space. Ideally, limit that on a Page and its children.

[Avinoam]

@Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_ we're actively exploring exactly these kinds of use cases and are in the process of defining which ones we'll be able to support next! As soon as I have more clarity of scope and timing, as always, I'll be sure to keep everyone posted :)