If you are creating pages with the Confluence API and you want to turn on numbering, you can use the numbering API.

PUT https://localhost:1990/confluence /rest/numberedheadings/1.0/page-configuration/:content-id

Configure page numbering

This endpoint allows to configure page numbering. You can effectively turn numbering on or off, configure formatting, or anything that you can configure using the UI.

Parameters

Path

content-id        string          ID of the page

Header

Content-Type      string      application/json

Responses

200 Cake successfully retrieved.

{}

The request payload that you should send for this request is as documented in Page properties.

Curl example

curl 'https://localhost:1990/confluence/rest/numberedheadings/1.0/page-configuration/360482' 
-X 'PUT' 
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' 
--data-binary '{"isEnabled":true,"numberFormatField":"decimal","startingNumberField":"3","startingHeadingField":"H1","skipHeadingField":"","customFormatFieldH1":"","customFormatFieldH2":"","customFormatFieldH3":"","customFormatFieldH4":"","customFormatFieldH5":"","customFormatFieldH6":""}'

PUT https://localhost:1990/confluence /rest/numberedheadings/1.0/space-configuration/:spacekey