Comala Workflows

Forms for Confluence

This section requires Forms for Confluence to be installed.

Creating a page when a form is submitted

Using a custom event listener and Forms for Confluence, you can automatically create a new page when a form is submitted. For example, you could want a page created when a user submits an internal feature request or events proposal using Forms for Confluence.

Follow these steps to create the form and event listener:

Verify that Forms for Confluence is installed.
In your Confluence instance, create a new form that includes input fields to collect the following named input fields:
- pageTitle
- spaceKey
- pageContent
  You can also include additional fields, like an attachment.
Navigate to General Configuration > ScriptRunner > Event Listeners.
Select Custom Event Listener.
Enter Create a page when a form is submitted for the Name.
Enter FormsSubmitEvent for Events.

Enter this code into Script:


import com.atlassian.confluence.core.DefaultSaveContext
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.PageManager
import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceManager
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator
import com.atlassian.xwork.FileUploadUtils
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

def spaceManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SpaceManager)
def pageManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(PageManager)

def eventFormSubmission = binding.variables.get("event")

String eventData = eventFormSubmission.structuredValue

//  any uploaded files. ie - uploaded using the "Forms - Attachment" macro
List<FileUploadUtils.UploadedFile> uploadedFiles = eventFormSubmission.uploadedFiles

// Space key, page title, page content, in a map.
Map<String, String[]> inputtedValues = new JsonSlurper().parseText(eventData) as Map<String, String[]>

def parentPageTitle = getValue(inputtedValues, "parentPageTitle")
def pageTitle = getValue(inputtedValues, "pageTitle")
def spaceKey = getValue(inputtedValues, "spaceKey")
def pageContent = getValue(inputtedValues, "pageContent")

// construct a new page
Page targetPage = constructNewPage(spaceManager, spaceKey, pageTitle, pageContent)

validateSpace(spaceKey, spaceManager)
validateParentPage(spaceKey, parentPageTitle, pageManager)

setPageAncestryAndSave(parentPageTitle, targetPage, spaceKey, pageManager)

private static String getValue(Map<String, String[]> data, String key) {
    if (!data.get(key) || data.get(key)[0].isEmpty()) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("A \"" + key + "\" was not provided.")
    } else if (hasMultipleUniqueEntries(data.get(key) as List<String>)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("multiple \" " + key + "\"'s were provided, please enter a single \"" + key + "\"")
    }
    data.get(key)[0]
}

private static boolean hasMultipleUniqueEntries(List<String> entries) {
    Set uniqueEntries = [] as Set
    uniqueEntries.addAll(entries)
    uniqueEntries.size() != 1
}

private static Page constructNewPage(SpaceManager spaceManager, String spaceKey, String pageTitle, String pageContent) {
    def targetPage = new Page(
        space: spaceManager.getSpace(spaceKey),
        title: pageTitle,
        bodyAsString: pageContent,
    )
    targetPage
}

private static void validateSpace(String spaceKey, SpaceManager spaceManager) {
    def space = spaceManager.getSpace(spaceKey)
    if (space == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid space key")
    }
}

private static void validateParentPage(String spaceKey, String parentPageTitle, PageManager pageManager) {
    def parentPage = pageManager.getPage(spaceKey, parentPageTitle)
    if (parentPage == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid parentPageTitle. " + parentPageTitle + " is not found in " + spaceKey)
    }
}

private static void setPageAncestryAndSave(
    String parentPageTitle, Page targetPage, String spaceKey, PageManager pageManager
) {
    Page parentPage = pageManager.getPage(spaceKey, parentPageTitle)
    parentPage.addChild(targetPage)
    targetPage.setParentPage(parentPage)

    pageManager.saveContentEntity(parentPage, DefaultSaveContext.DEFAULT)
    pageManager.saveContentEntity(targetPage, DefaultSaveContext.DEFAULT)
}

This code determines that the spaceKey, pageTitle, and pageContent correspond to the name parameter defined for the macros in your form.
This event listener is not directly tied to the Forms configuration. The results of the Forms configuration can be recorded and/or sent to a different destination that you choose.

Result: When the form is submitted, a new page is created with the values entered by the user.

This is the form:

The following image is the resulting page that is created when the form is submitted:

Jira

This section requires Jira to be installed.

Jira and Confluence need to be properly linked for this to work. If you haven't done so, you can find instructions here.

Creating a Jira project when a Confluence space is created

This event listener example automatically creates a Jira project every time a space is created.

Follow these steps to create the listener:

Navigate to General Configuration > ScriptRunner > Event Listeners.
Select Custom Event Listener.
Enter Create a Jira project when a Confluence space is created for Name.

Enter the following Script:

import com.atlassian.applinks.api.ApplicationLinkService
import com.atlassian.applinks.api.application.jira.JiraApplicationType
import com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.space.SpaceCreateEvent
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator
import com.atlassian.sal.api.net.Response
import com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseException
import com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseHandler
import groovy.json.JsonBuilder

import static com.atlassian.sal.api.net.Request.MethodType.POST

def appLinkService = ComponentLocator.getComponent(ApplicationLinkService)
def appLink = appLinkService.getPrimaryApplicationLink(JiraApplicationType)
def applicationLinkRequestFactory = appLink.createAuthenticatedRequestFactory()

def event = event as SpaceCreateEvent
def space = event.space

def input = new JsonBuilder([
    projectTypeKey    : "business",
    projectTemplateKey: "com.atlassian.jira-core-project-templates:jira-core-task-management",
    name              : space.name,
    key               : space.key,
    lead              : event.space.creator.name,
]).toString()

def request = applicationLinkRequestFactory.createRequest(POST, "/rest/api/2/project")
    .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .setEntity(input)

request.execute(new ResponseHandler<Response>() {
    @Override
    void handle(Response response) throws ResponseException {
        if (response.statusCode != 201) {
            log.error("Creating jira project failed: ${response.responseBodyAsString}")
        }
    }
})

Pick SpaceCreateEvent for Events.
Select Add.

Result: A Jira project is created every time a space is added.

Comala Document Management

This section requires Comala Document Management to be installed.

Jira and Confluence need to be properly linked for this to work. If you haven't done so, you can find instructions here.

Create a Jira issue when a page or blog post is approved

Using a custom event listener, you can track every time a page or blog post is approved in your Confluence instance by creating a Jira issue.