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Snapshot publishing allows you create static versioned documents from your dynamic Confluence content, freezing content from Confluence macros that display live content in the snapshot document. A

Snapshot Publishing can be used as a standalone feature of the Comala Publishing app to create a snapshot of a document but a snapshot of a Confluence document can also be created using a workflow trigger.

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Activating snapshot publishing

There are two three steps to setting up snapshot publishing to take place on a Comala workflow event:

  1. /wiki/spaces/AHPD/pages/5869568008 to enable snapshot publishing in a space

  2. Set up /wiki/spaces/AHPD/pages/14160625680 in your space tools snapshot publishing dashboard

  3. Update your workflow to trigger the snapshot publishing process (see below)

Workflow markup

The publishing is triggered by an action macro, snapshot-page, which must be used in a trigger.

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{workflow:name=Snapshot Publishing}
   {state:Editing|submit=Review}
   {state}
   {state:Review|approved=Published|rejected=Editing}
      {approval:Review|assignable=true}
   {state}
   {state:Published|final=true|updated=Editing}
   {state}
   {trigger:statechanged|state=Published}
      {set-metadata:lastapprover}
      @user@
      {set-metadata}
      {snapshot-page|collection=@collectionname@|editor=@lastapprover@}
   {trigger}
{workflow}

The example markup above based on the example from same-space publishing, but we've added the trigger at the bottom.

When the state changes to Published, the trigger is activated and the snapshot-page macro instructs the Comala Publishing app to create a snapshot document from the Confluence document.

  • the collection parameter is required to add the snapshot to a named collection. The example uses a workflow parameter value reference @collectionname@ for the value of this parameter

  • the editor parameter adds the user who be set as the creator of the snapshot. The example uses a metadata value set on transition to the Published state for the value of this parameter

The user must have been added as a collection contributor to the collection permissions by the user who created the collection.

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For snapshot publishing all the work is done by the snapshot-page macro. The snapshot-page macro can be used to publish the content from any state using an appropriate trigger event. 

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