How to automate confluence page creation with a jira field form?

[Marcelo da Paz Pinto]

I want to automate the creation of confluence pages with the contents of a form from Jira. I want the populated form to be the content of a automatically created Confluence Page. 

Is it possible to do without any add-on? If yes, how can i set it up?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Marcelo da Paz Pinto -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

If you are using a JSM form, the smart values were recently made available for such forms: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/access-smart-values-for-forms-and-form-fields/

You could use the Create Confluence Page action in your rule, perhaps from a template.  Then use the REST API endpoints with the Send Web Request action to load the page content, update it with your form data, and finally update the page with another REST API call.

I recommend trying to implement such a rule in steps to incrementally build / test it.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Marcelo da Paz Pinto]

Hi @Bill Sheboy  Thank you for your response.

I don't understand how to proceed after the automation rule creates a confluence page.

Which endpoints do i have to use? Is it supposed to first "load" my issue form and then update the page with it? In this case, how do i structure these API calls?

Again, thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Marcelo.

[Bill Sheboy]

You will need to review the REST API documentation to learn that in detail.

For Confluence page updates with automation rules, the general flow would be:

• capture the page id information after it is created
• use one call to get the page's content, loading it into the web response smart value
• use text functions to update the content, perhaps saving that in a created variable
• use another call to send the updated content