Easier (automatic?) check-in of existing pages into a Database

[Filip Callewaert]

At this moment we can create pages from within the Database, and we can define the position where these new pages should be created (eg. by defining a fixed parent page) (Page Link field).

There is a huge win in also enabling the reverse direction:

Have a configuration option in Databases that enables "automatic" harvesting / checking-in of pages under a fixed parent page. Each time a new page is created under that page (not from within the Database), or when a page has been moved and becomes a child page of that page > add it automatically as an entry to the database.

This would save me an enormous amount of time!

This is a self-evident use case for the integration of Automations in Databases (trigger: page created under page x (or label y added); action: add page as entry to database) - but this might still last a very long time until we get these things?

[Hendrik Hillus]

+1

This would be great to reduce manual work for some usecases.

It would also allow for easy label management in specific cases, as well as provide a great overview in combination with the "entry details" field.

[Keith Sottung]

I am hoping they will add a feature to Databases to allow you predefined the data set around CQL statement.  

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Useful-CQL-statements-to-search-what-you-need-in-Confluence/ba-p/1769849

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/