Automation in Confluence?

[Christian Axén]

I've read several times here at Atlassian Answers that if you have to do stuff in Confluence several times you should automate. I guess you would do this to work more efficiently. I would like to know more about that concept in Confluence, how you utilize automation in your instance of Confluence and why this is important you. Examples would be great.

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

Another thing to take advantage of and is somewhat like automation for less techy people would be templates. If you have certain types of documentation that you create on a regular basis you should consider standardizing the creation via a template.

[Christian Axén]

I agree, templates is a must. Space templates would be great.

[Davin Studer]

You use the Copy Space addon to get space templating-like functionality. You would create a space that acts as the template and then copy that space when you need to create a new space.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

You could use the Power Scripts for Confluence add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219507/power-scripts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

It is a free add-on. I've found Power Scripts for Confluence really handy for Confluence admins who want to automate their work and apply bulk actions to Confluence.

[Maria]

Hi Alexey, 

I'm a newbie and not that techie... I would like to inquire if you know the best practice in creating the release notes in Jira where we can link an epic/stories (for every update on the tickets or projects)? 

[Benjamin Feagin Jr]

Power Scripts requires access to the admin console and is not accessible to typical Confluence users.

[Davin Studer]

@Benjamin Feagin Jr You can create scripts in the admin console and then surface them on pages via included macros.

[Benjamin Feagin Jr]

Typical users cannot access the admin console and thus can't do this. 

[Davin Studer]

Sorry, what I meant is that an admin can create the scripts and then surface that for regular users via the included macros.

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

Take a look on the Command Line Interface

[Christian Axén]

Thanks Steve!

[MattS]

I believe that script runner is coming to confluence soon which is another way to do it

[Christian Axén]

I will look into that, thanks.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

It depends what exactly you mean by automation, but I suppose those answers refer to the REST APIs the Confluence (and all other Atlassian tools provide). And the APIs are very extensive, you can basically script (automate) quite a lot

https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api

[Christian Axén]

Could you give me some examples of when this could be useful? I'm not a developer so this is way too difficult for me.