Where are the smart button templates picked from?

[David Corlette]

I'm trying to set up a custom automation in Confluence, triggered by a button on the page. I've created the automation rule, and it shows up in the list of rules - scope is the space, accessible to all admins.

When I create a Smart Button on a page in that space, I'm offered a list of templates that does not seem to have any relationship with other templates under Automation and, specifically, does not list my custom automation rule.

How do I create a custom automation rule and attach it to the button?

[Barbara Szczesniak · Accepted solution]

@David Corlette Since I'm on Standard, I haven't really used Automation yet, but there is this article from July 2024 when they added Smart Buttons: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/End-Users-Can-Now-Easily-Leverage-Automation-for-Confluence-with/ba-p/2747531 

Then there was this article on December 23 where there is something about Smart Buttons toward the bottom: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Changes-to-the-location-of-Confluence-Automations-Manual-Trigger/ba-p/2901777 

We can also try tagging @Avinoam here, and maybe he can offer assistance.

[David Corlette]

@Avinoam Barbara was helpful in pointing to these articles, but from what I'm reading in the comments in those posts, it's still not possible to attach ANY manual custom automation to a Smart Button, we can only use this weirdly restricted set that y'all have provided - correct?

[Avinoam]

@David Corlette that's correct. We're in the process of building out a contextual builder to allow you to create your own custom rules from smart buttons.

[Bartosz Dec]

I'm trying to do the same thing. The trigger: "Manual trigger from page. Rule is run when manually triggered by the user from a page" suggests that the new rule should be available to use from a Smart Button on a page. But when I add a new one, I can only see the list of "Available Templates" showing the automation list already set up by default.

In this case, I don't see any way of running a rule using this trigger.

To me it seems to be a bug.