Create from Template Button - Add Timestamp to Title

Emily Berg October 18, 2021

Hello Community!

I have a "Create from template" button and on each click, I would like the title of the page to be unique.  I have added the date to the title, using the @currentDate reference (showing as yyyy-mm-dd), but the title would have to be edited if multiple pages were created on the same day.  I have tried @currentTime, etc. with no luck!

Is there a way to add a timestamp or some other indexing function to the title?

Thanks!

Emily

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Kishan Sharma
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October 18, 2021

Hi @Emily Berg Using the inbuilt functionality provided by 'Create from Template' macro, it is not possible to add a timestamp in the page title - You can include @currentDate, @spaceName and @spaceKey variables in the title.

There are some paid third party plugins which can help in generating page titles with a date timestamp eg: Linking for Confluence where in you can customize the page title to your liking, refer steps on this link

Erik Boelen July 19, 2022

In the server version, we created a User Macro that used the variable "$title" that we included in the template.

So we "Create from template", fill in the variable "$title" and created the new page; this created a page with title: @currentDate - $title

Unfortunately, Confluence Cloud doesn't allow User Macros :(

So I am also still looking for a way to create a unique page from a template, since you can't use the template twice on the same day...

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