Confluence: Create new page and move children

[Ian MacDonald]

Hello, I am trying to setup an automation in confluence that will trigger manually. This automation will be used on the following page structure:

1. Parent 1
   
   1. Child 1
   2. Child 2
   3. etc.
2. Parent 2
   
   1. Child 1
   2. Child 2
   3. etc

My goal is to have the automation trigger from the parent page, create a new child page underneath and then move all the prior children to be children of the newly created page.

Any advice, tips, guides are greatly appreciated!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ian MacDonald 

At this time, the Edit Page action does not support changing the parent. 

One possible workaround is use the Send Web Request action to call the Update Page endpoint to change the parent.  Here are some references if you want to try this approach:

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Automation-for-Jira-Send-web-request-using-Jira-REST-API/ba-p/1443828
• https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-page/#api-pages-id-put

Kind regards,
Bill

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Ian MacDonald 

Just following up to check if this answered your question.  If so, please consider marking this one as "answered".  That will help others with a similar need find solutions faster.  If not, please let the community know what help you need with the rule steps.

Thanks!