Restricting pages with Automations

Question

I am loving the new options for Confluence automations, but have a question about the Restrict Page action.

My use case:

I am using the automation to scan new pages for certain keywords, and if the page contains that keyword it will add a label to the page, send an email to the page owner, and ideally lock the page down so nobody but the Confluence Admin group AND the page owner can see it.

The problem:

The field seems to only allow me to enter a group or individual user name, but I would like to use a smart value such as {page.author} here so they can still view and edit the page too. I do not see a way to do this. Am I missing something?

Julien COUTURIER · Answer

Hi, You can vote for the feature here : [AUTO-1478] Enable Smart Values in "Restrict Page" Action for Automation in Confluence - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.

Zack Howard · Answer

Yeah, it seems like this would be a really useful feature, letting the automation lock the page for everyone but the owner (or other smart values). Seems obvious that you would want them to still have access to the page they created.

Aron Gombas [Midori] · Answer

Hmm. I believe it is just inconsistent implementation...