🎉 MANY New Smart Values Added to Automation for Confluence 📣

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👋 Community! Avinoam from Confluence Automation here again - and today we are very excited to announce the addition of many new smart values for you all to use!

First things first - you can find all of them already updated in our support documentation here.

What smart values have been added

Smart Value	High Level Description
{{inactivePages}}	a list of pages that haven’t been viewed, updated, or commented on in a given time frame
{{initiator.property}} {{initiator.fullName}} {{initiator.publicName}} {{initiator.emailAddress}} {{initiator.timeZone}} {{initiator.accountId}}	the person who triggered the rule
{{space.creator}}	the person who created the space
{{page.editor.property}}{{blog.editor.property}}{{content.editor.property}}{{content.editor.fullName}} {{content.editor.publicName}} {{content.editor.emailAddress}} {{content.editor.timeZone}} {{content.editor.accountId}}	the person who published the most recent updates to the page or blog this is first Editor listed under Page of blog information (see … More actions, Advanced details)
{{page.owner.property}}{{content.owner.property}}{{content.owner.fullName}} {{content.owner.publicName}} {{content.owner.emailAddress}} {{content.owner.timeZone}} {{content.owner.accountId}}	the owner of the page. this is the author, by default, but ownership can be transferred
{{page.priorOwner.property}}{{content.priorOwner.property}}{{content.priorOwner.fullName}} {{content.priorOwner.publicName}} {{content.priorOwner.emailAddress}} {{content.priorOwner.timeZone}} {{content.priorOwner.accountId}}	the previous owner of the page (if ownership has ever been transferred) if the original author is still the owner, this value won’t return anything
{{priorContentStatus}}	the previous status of the page or blog
{{task.resolver}}	the person who resolved the task by marking it Complete (checking the box) this may or may not be the same person who the task is assigned to
{{task.dateAdded}}	the date an action item (whether or not it’s an assigned task) was added and published to the page or blog.
{{task.dateCompleted}}	the date an action item (whether or not it’s an assigned task) was completed

Other important call outs

• CQL Branch now also outputs strongly typed smart values, like {{page}}, {[attachment}}, {{content}}, {{space}}, etc.
• Task Branch now also outputs smart values associated with the task, like {{page}}, {{content}}, {{space}}, etc.
• Label pickers now allow for smart value inputs (changes to page labeled trigger, blog labeled trigger, and add label action)

We want to hear from you!

We’d love your feedback so please feel free to schedule time with us directly here or drop a comment on this post 

[Filip Callewaert]

@Caio Oliveira -- faster than its shadow...! Thx, @Avinoam & team!!

[G subramanyam]

Great to hear and nice update @Avinoam 

[Filip Callewaert]

Just as a reminder, @Avinoam , and for the automation fans, it would also be great to have a smart value in Confluence that enables 'periodicity' relative to a date-value in the Confluence page. 
Now there already is periodicity based on a hard defined date-value, eg. within 6 months, or, on July 21st, send a mail to the page.owner. 
What's not yet available: send a mail to the page.owner, 6 months after the page.status changed to 'approved'. As you all can guess, very interesting in documentation-lifecycle-management. This seems to be (for me) the only missing piece in the documentation use case.
Jira automation already has such mechanisms and smart values.

[Filip Callewaert]

We want more?

What about a smart value that identifies a Jira issue that is linked to a Confluence page (or vv.)?

Then: e.g.: if the page owner of this page changes, then the assignee in the related Jira issue changes in that value; or, the page's status changes to x > the issue's status becomes x too; etc. 

Now we need to hardcode the related issue in the automation rule; smarter would be if a smart value identifies related stuff, and so enables any such situation to be handled by such a rule. 

[Darryl Lee]

Tell me you're still on on-prem Confluence without telling me you're on on-prem Confluence:

Wait, you can change ownership of a page??

[Alejandra Alvarez]

This is great stuff - thanks for adding it! 

[Major Austin]

Thanks for adding all this stuff! Although could we get a BY operator? Would help immensely for some query problems I couldn't resolve otherwise.

[Rosivatz Kurt]

I'd love to see the "Publish new page" action to support smart values for space or at least parent page. It's currently not possible to create a child page via a manual automation on that page.

If smart values are no option it would at least be helpful that one could select "Current page" or "Trigger page" as parent.

Is there any chance that automation will allow to actually manipulate content? At least add content to a blank page or fill out parameters of a template?

[Summer Hogan]

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing and continuously improving the tools we use everyday @Avinoam! 

[Andrew Zimmerman]

Great updates, @Avinoam. Looking forward to using these smart values. {{page.owner}} will be really useful. Thanks. 

[Filip Callewaert]

Looking forward to see all the content/blog/page-related smart values becoming metadata for "linked pages" in Confluence Databases!!

@Christina Ristevski @Siddharth Reddy Malkireddy @Jena Slezak