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Overview

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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Requires Comala Document Management v6.17.6+

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Activating snapshot publishing

There are

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

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  1. Install Comala Publishing

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  1. to your instance and enable snapshot publishing

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  1. for a space

  2. Set up

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  1. snapshot publishing in your space tools snapshot publishing dashboard

  2. Update your workflow to trigger the snapshot publishing process and apply to your documents (see below)

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Publishing a snapshot using a workflow trigger

A snapshot can be published using

  • the snapshot-page macro to create a snapshot that is added to a specified snapshot collection

  • the pdf-export macro to create a snapshot that is added to the page as an attachment

Both action macros can be used in the same trigger.

Snapshot-page action trigger 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
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:collection=
@collectionname@
mycollection|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 value is required to add the snapshot to a named collection

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  • the editor parameter

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  • value is the user who

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  • is set as the creator of the snapshot

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  • document

In the example above

  • the value for the collection parameter must be the name of a snapshot collection that has been linked to or created in the space by the space administrator

  • the value for the editor parameter is a metadata value set

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  • in the workflow trigger prior to the snapshot-page macro action

The user who is added as the value for editor parameter must have be added as a collection contributor to the collection permissions by the

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collection owner/creator.

Info

For snapshot publishing all the work is done by the snapshot-

page macro

page macro.

 The snapshot

 The snapshot-

page macro

page macro can be used to publish the content from any state using an appropriate trigger event. 

pdf-export action trigger workflow markup

With Comala Publishing installed, the pdf-export macro can be used as an action to export a snapshot of page or blog post in PDF format and adds the pdf to the page as an attachment.

The pdf is added with a filename in the following format:

  • <confluence_filename>_<document_version>_<date_pdf_file_created>_<time_pdf_created>.pdf

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{trigger:statechanged|state=Published}
      {pdf-export}
{trigger}

There are no macro parameters to configure.

The pdf-export macro can also be used with Scroll PDF Exporter 4.10.11 or higher.

Macros

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cqllabel = "app-comala-publishing" and label = "snap-publish-macro" and space = currentSpace ( )

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