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5 Blockers Slowing Down Your Confluence Approvals and How to Fix Them with Approval Path
Confluence includes a built-in Automation feature that allows admins to create rules for actions like sending notifications, changing page status, or triggering events based on page updates. More recently, Atlassian introduced Smart Buttons as a way to make automation more accessible, letting users trigger those rules manually from a page. However, the usage is directly tied to your automation usage quota, which depends on your Confluence plan. If you’ve tried building approval workflows using Confluence’s native features alone, you may have already run into some of these challenges.
How to Improve Content Reviews in Confluence with Approval Path
In today’s article, we’ll cover why having an approval process for Confluence pages matters, how to create your own approval process using Approval Path for Confluence , and share a real-life example from our Warsaw Dynamics team! Why Set Up an Approval Process for Confluence? Without an approval step, content can be published before it’s ready. Documents may include sensitive data, outdated information, or content that hasn’t been reviewed by the right people.