Use a link to create pages with the current date in the page title

Scenario

You may force the creation of pages with a standardized page title. This is useful when organizing meeting notes pages, budget documentation, status updates, or any time-sensitive documents.

By using an injection notation, you can dynamically add the current date to a page title.

Result

Recipe

Apps	Linking for Confluence
Platform	Server and Data Center
Level	Intermediate
Estimated time	15 minutes
Macros	Add Page
Suppliers	N/A

Storage format

You can copy and paste this code into the Confluence Source Editor:

<h2>Meeting Notes</h2>
<hr/>
<p>
  <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="b55ea749-f097-4051-ade1-9e50e8833bc1" ac:name="children" ac:schema-version="2">
    <ac:parameter ac:name="sort">creation</ac:parameter>
    <ac:parameter ac:name="reverse">true</ac:parameter>
  </ac:structured-macro>
</p>
<p>
  <ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="b80ffac8-1fc4-4497-a7aa-33ae44c57e92" ac:name="add-page" ac:schema-version="1">
    <ac:parameter ac:name="name">Meeting Notes for %global:current date&gt;date:MMM d, yyyy%</ac:parameter>
    <ac:parameter ac:name="linkText">Create a new meeting notes</ac:parameter>
    <ac:parameter ac:name="source">Meeting notes template</ac:parameter>
    <ac:parameter ac:name="live">true</ac:parameter>
  </ac:structured-macro>
</p>

Macro structure

You can recreate the example in the editor view:

Steps

Add an Add Page macro.
To set the title of the pages, use the Name parameter. In this example, we want to create the pages with the title format Meeting Notes for February 20, 2018, so we will use an injection notation with a keychain from Date Supplier:
Meeting Notes for %global:current date>date:MMM d, yyyy%
This can be customized to your liking. See full description here. For example:
- %global:current date>date:yyMMdd% will appear as 170814.
- %global:current date% will appear as Mon Aug 14 16:05:16 MYT 2017.
- %page:creation date% will appear as 2017-08-14 14:46:51.553.
For the link inside the current page, let's specify Create a new meeting note for the Link text parameter.
If you want to create the pages based on a template, configure the Source and Source Type parameters and enable the Live Template parameter.
Add a Children Display macro to show the list of pages created through this Add Page macro.