Automation in Confluence?
Asked by Christian Ax?n:

I've read several times here at Atlassian Answers that if you have to do stuff in Confluence several times you should automate. I guess you would do this to work more efficiently. I would like to know more about that concept in Confluence, how you utilize automation in your instance of Confluence and why this is important you. Examples would be great.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Another thing to take advantage of and is somewhat like automation for less techy people would be templates. If you have certain types of documentation that you create on a regular basis you should consider standardizing the creation via a template.

comments: author: Christian Ax?n
body: I agree, templates is a must. Space templates would be great.


author: Davin Studer
body: You use the Copy Space addon to get space templating-like functionality. You would create a space that acts as the template and then copy that space when you need to create a new space.


author: Alexey Matveev
body: Hello,

You could use the Power Scripts for Confluence add-on:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219507/power-scripts-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219507/power-scripts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

It is a free add-on. I've found Power Scripts for Confluence really handy for Confluence admins who want to automate their work and apply bulk actions to Confluence.

comments: author: Maria
body: Hi Alexey,   

I'm a newbie and not that techie... I would like to inquire if you know the best practice in creating the release notes in Jira where we can link an epic/stories (for every update on the tickets or projects)?


author: Benjamin Feagin Jr
body: Power Scripts requires access to the admin console and is not accessible to typical Confluence users.


author: Davin Studer
body: [@Benjamin Feagin Jr](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2681587) You can create scripts in the admin console and then surface them on pages via included macros.


author: Benjamin Feagin Jr
body: Typical users cannot access the admin console and thus can't do this.


author: Davin Studer
body: Sorry, what I meant is that an admin can create the scripts and then surface that for regular users via the included macros.


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Take a look on the [Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli)

comments: author: Christian Ax?n
body: Thanks Steve!


author: MattS
body: I believe that script runner is coming to confluence soon which is another way to do it

comments: author: Christian Ax?n
body: I will look into that, thanks.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: It depends what exactly you mean by automation, but I suppose those answers refer to the REST APIs the Confluence (and all other Atlassian tools provide). And the APIs are very extensive, you can basically script (automate) quite a lot

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api>

comments: author: Christian Ax?n
body: Could you give me some examples of when this could be useful? I'm not a developer so this is way too difficult for me.


Tags: confluence-administration