Automatically add labels to page attachments

[Karrie Donbergs]

Is there a way to automatically add labels to new page attachments?

I know that labels can be included with a page template, so when a new page is created in a space the page labels will carry over. Is there anything similar for page attachments?

Thank you

[Helmy Ibrahim _Adaptavist_]

Hi @Karrie Donbergs

Adding on to @Aron Gombas _Midori_ 's comment - your requirement is definitely possible with ScriptRunner for Confluence Cloud.

Please follow the following steps to set it up:

1. Create a Script Listener
2. Listen to the 'Attachment Created' event
3. Use the following sample script:

   attachments.each { attachment ->
       def attachmentId = attachment.idAsString
   
       post("/wiki/rest/api/content/${attachmentId}/label")
           .header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
           .header('Accept', 'application/json')
           .body([
               prefix: 'global',
               name: 'label-name'
           ])
   }

Currently, the script will add a label to all attachments created. Of course, you could tune the script by specifying various conditions so that it only runs when you want it to.

Please let me know if you have any further questions on this.

I hope this helps!

Kind regards,
Helmy

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

This use case sounds something typically solved with Confluence Automation.

But:

1. There is an action to add labels, but it works only for pages and blog posts.
2. And, there is no trigger "attachment created"...

So, it won't work.

If you don't mind writing Groovy code to implement this automation, then ScriptRunner could solve this for you. It isn't a very hard problem. If you are lucky, Adaptavist (the vendor of SR) will be able to give you a ready-made script for this.