Automation for Confleunce to send an e-mail when a page is created under a folder

[Brian Taylor]

I have a use case regarding a folder when a page is created in a folder to send out an e-mail to specific people that a page has been created.  

Does Confluence automation have this ability?

I tried using a CQL of 

space = "Atlassian Support" and title = "Active Projects (Migrated)"

But that did not work. 

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

@Brian Taylor You can use the ancestor CQL field to find all descendants (children, grandchildren, etc.) of a given ancestor.

In your case, you should use something like:

ancestor = 1234

... where 1234 is the ID of the folder.

Maybe you could just run a scheduled job e.g. every hour and that runs this to find the pages created under that folder since the previous run:

ancestor = 1234 and created > now("-1h")

[Brian Taylor]

Aron - Thank you for the sugestion 

I modified the CQL as follows. I did not get any returned.   I tried this both on a Folder as well as an under and existing page 

space = "Atlassian Support" and title = "Test Sub-space" AND ancestor = 1234 and created > now("-1h")

I also tried changing the folder ID that I got from the results of a copy link (I am not sure if that is how you get the folder ID or not based on some of the Community articles)

[Amanda Barber]

Oooh, thanks for sharing this @Aron Gombas _Midori_! 

[Amanda Barber]

Hi @Brian Taylor - I don't think any automations are available based on folders just yet since those are a new feature, but this might work for you? You could also set up a specific template or label to ensure the correct items are notifying users.

[Brian Taylor]

Amanda - Thank you for the suggestion, but it does not appear to have worked as the audit log status is not action performed.