Editing created Confluence pages from within Jira automation

[Yury Gorshkov]

Hello fellow Atlassians,

One my use cases is creating HR tickets for onboarding, offboarding and team change requests. I see that Jira now has the ability to create Confluence pages from templates using Jira automation.

I'm creating a master issue for HR, as well as lots of subtasks going to different departments/stakeholders/tool owners in the company. I want all of these people to have access to a common page containing all the changes that need to be done so that people could coordinate and not get lost in this system of multiple tickets.

My question is, is it possible to edit the page that the automation has created to include information from the issue that created it? E.g. information from fields, and a link to the issue that triggered the creation of the page.

Many thanks.

[Armin Meyer _Seibert - Coderay_]

Hi Yury,

if third party apps are an option for you, Autopage could be a solution for you. It's not only designed to create pages in Confluence with one time insertion of Jira field information. It keeps the information from a referred Jira work item in the Confluence page permanently in sync. We are seeing a lot of people using the app in HR-Scenarios.

You can find us at the Atlassian Marketplace

➡️ https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218503  

[Charlie Gavey]

Hi @yury_eo - the "Edit page" Automation action is now available in both Jira & Confluence: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-quot-Edit-page-quot-action-now-available-in/ba-p/3066529

[Anzar]

Hi @yury_eo ,

You can use smart values in that case.
Please refer to this documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-create-confluence-page-automatically-with-jira-issue-content-once-jira-issue-created-1189506097.html

Under custom data section of your automation action, you can set the content according to you and use smart values to depict Jira issue custom fields.

Please let me known if this helps.

Regards,

Anzar Khan

[Yury Gorshkov]

Hiyas! Thanks for your input, will check!

[Yury Gorshkov]

Also, two questions:

1. Can I use the built-in 'Create confluence page' action to create a page from an existing template and populate it with the values from the automation?
2. If not, can I do the same using a raw API call like you suggested?

I don't really want to keep the whole page markup inside the automation, though it's possible as a last resort.

[Anzar]

1. Can I use the built-in 'Create confluence page' action to create a page from an existing template and populate it with the values from the automation?
   >>I don't think it is currently possible.
2. If not, can I do the same using a raw API call like you suggested?
   >>You can do it via a raw API as mentioned here
   https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-custom-content/#api-custom-content-post
   You can configure this rest call in a script on an event or a post function.

Let me know if this helps and don't forget to accept my answer