Approvals for Confluence Cloud - April 2023

Release Date

13-04-2023

Type of Update

new feature

We’re delighted to announce the April 2023 update to Approvals for Confluence has just been released.

New features 💎

  • Display Approval Requestor in the page byline

    • Added the ability to see who requested approvals within the page approval pop-up window (example below). Note: this will only apply to new pages approval and will not update retrospectively for existing approvals.

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  • Introducing the Page Approval Status Macro 🎉

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  • Users can now add a new macro which displays the information of the page approval, including:

    • Page approval status:

      • can be ‘In review’, ‘Approved’ or ‘Rejected’

    • Date of approval:

      • displays the full date and time of the last given approval that changed the overall page status to ‘Approved’

      • displays ‘N/A’ when current page status is ‘In review’ or ‘Rejected’

    • Current page version

    • Approved page version:

      • displays the last approved page version as a hyperlink

      • displays ‘N/A’ when current page status is pending or rejected

    • Minimum required approvers

      • if the option is disabled (from page approval config), then minimum required approvers will be the total number of approvers

    • Approvers list:

      • including Approver, Status and Approval Date

  • The macro can be exported to pdf and word; if users want the exported tables to take the full width of the page, then they can:

    • go to Space Settings → Look and Feel → PDF export → PDF stylesheet

    • copy the following and save:

      • table.approvalStatusTable {width: 100% !important}
        table.approversStatusTable {width: 100% !important}

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        Changing table width to be full page width


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        PDF export example


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Initial state if page approvals is not setup



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Warning message if page approvals is not configured
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In review Page
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Approved Page
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Rejected Page
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Adding Page Approval Status Macro


Updating to the latest version: this update has been automatically applied to Approvals for Confluence Cloud, so no action is required from you.


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