createdContent smartvalue in Confluence Automation?

[David Foote]

Hi all,

I'm using Confluence automation to copy a page from one space to another. However, I would really like to be able to get the page id of the newly created page.

In Jira automation, I'd be able to use a smartvalue like {{createdIssue}} to get something like that.

Does Confluence automation have a similar smartvalue?

[David Foote · Accepted solution]

I found the answer to this!

It seems that after the copy action completes, the context for all of the {{content}} smartvalues is shifted to reference the newly created page.

I.E, at the beginning of the automation, {{content.id}} returns the ID of the page that the automation triggered on. 

After the copy action, {{content.id}} returns the ID of the newly created page.

This is different from how Jira automation works! There, you remain in the same context as the issue you started with; hence the need for the {{createdIssue}} values to get access to the data on the newly created issue.