Hi Folks, I have a question around the actor in Confluence Automation.
If an automation is running all its changes are applied as the acting user. (as in Page changes etc.).
One can only change this acting user to themselves, not assign it to someone else (unless you login as that user of course).
Now my question is (maybe to @Avinoam 😀)
Do you know of any way to assign this question to a bot user, or to a certain user that is defined in an webhook or so.
Reason for asking is the following:
We're currently working on a solution for something that is heavily audited. And we use Workflows by Appfox to Control our Documents (fyi @Craig Willson (AppFox) 😉).
We use Webhooks to sync the confluence Status with the Workflows status.
However if we look into the page history we see that all changes on the page are made by me (as the acting user of the Automation)
Which is only partially true. 😃
And our users would like to have a single overview of who changed what when. And the page history would be the ideal space, at it doesn't only contain the state changes, but the content changes as well.
Now our Webhooks payload coming from workflows is very simple:
{
"title": "${page.title}",
"id": "${page.id}",
"creator": "${history.createdBy.accountId}",
"Status": "Draft"
}Actually even the default one, plus adding that line with the Status to see if we can make that run with one Automation not 4, which doesn't work, but thats a story for another day.
The automation is the following:
Now if we can use that "creator" from the payload (or any other type of user that we get from there) as our actor of the automation. This page history would be just the one we need. But we can't, currently.
Is there any way to fix this, or do you have any plans to implent such a thing?
Looking forward to any reply.
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