Is there a way to tag the certain versions of all pages under a given Space

[Ozgur Yuksel]

Hi,

I am trying Confluence to see if we can use it for our product documentation. I know Confluence comes with change history support. But what I need is to mark a certain version (or current versions at a given day) of all the pages with the Product Version which is released at that day. This is more or less how we work with source code of the product as well (there we use branching for future changes). Main idea is to see what is changed between Version A of the Product and Version B.

Ozgur

[Bob Swift (personal) · Accepted solution]

One way is to update the page with an update comment that specifies the version. This shows up in the page history. People could do a diff after selecting the 2 page versions that matched the product versions they were interested in. The page update could be automated by using the Confluence Command Line Interface .

Example: confluence --action storePage --space myspacekey --title "My page" --comment "Version 1"

However, be aware the Confluence can ignore an update if it is not a change. Seems to occur even if an update comment is provided. This happens on the UI or via remote API. While I like a null update not creating a new version, I think it is a bug that an update comment provided with an update doesn't create a version :(. It seems that if the author of the change is different than the last update author, a new version will be created. You can make a significant update by adding a blank to the end of the page, but this requires something like:

confluence --action getPageSource --space myspacekey --title "My page" --file page.txt

confluence --action storePage --space myspacekey --title "My page" --comment "Version 1" --file page.txt --content2 " "

[Ozgur Yuksel]

It is good to know we can easily add this functionality using some scripting based on our versioning and there is enough support from application side.

Thanks for the quick response.

Ozgur