When I create a new page with a Rest call in Confluence Cloud, the pages are set to full-width by default. But I need them to have that narrow layout, which should be default as what I read, but it isn’t. I set the editor version to v2, so I’m using the new editor.
Can I set the page width somewhere in my Rest call?
Hi @hauke.hoerhold, did you find a solution? I have exactly the same problem. It looks like the POST /wiki/rest/api/content endpoint sometimes (but not always!) creates a page with a full-width layout.
I found out that you can, in theory, set the "content-appearance-draft" and "content-appearance-published" properties to "default" to create a fixed-width page but then the API call fails with an internal server error about 50% of the time.
This is how I set the properties when creating the page:
metadata: {
properties: {
"content-appearance-draft": { value: "default" },
"content-appearance-published": { value: "default" },
editor: { value: "v2" }
}
}
And this is the error I get sometimes:
{
"statusCode": 500,
"message": "org.springframework.transaction.UnexpectedRollbackException: Transaction rolled back because it has been marked as rollback-only"
}
When the error occurs, the page is still created but uses the old editor instead of the new one. I haven’t yet found a way to reliably create a page with a fixed-width layout. 
Also have the same issue, would looking forward to a solution. I prefer having fixed-width…
No I didn’t find a solution…
I have assigned the metadata as you did (setting the content-appearance-draft and -published), but pages still are full-width.
Did you happen to find a solution here?
I am plagued by same bug.
Thanks in advance.
I actually got a solution by Atlassian Support. However did not yet had the chance to verify it:
After some communication with the developers and some testing, the correct keys for content-appearance-draft and content-appearance-published needs to be using an underscore character instead of a hyphen.
To correct the previous metadata property that we have previously shared, it should look like this:
"metadata": {
"properties": {
"editor": {"value":"v2"},
"content_appearance_draft": {
"value": "fixed-width"
},
"content_appearance_published": {
"value": "fixed-width"
}
}
}
So simply try to use “_” instead of “-”.
The version with underscores doesn’t work either, unfortunately. The endpoint for creating pages still sets the content-appearance-draft and content-appearance-published properties (with dashes) to full-width for some requests. The only solution I’ve found is to delete both properties after creating a page.
As you wrote, replacing dashes with underscores doesn’t help.
In some requests it sets the fixed width, in some it doesn’t. It seems to be random. I tried it with one page over and over, and in 30% of the cases it’s fixed. Very strange.
How do you delete both properties afterwards? Also with a Rest call?
@hauke.hoerhold I just got the feedback from the development team, that they are aware of the current issue and they will release a fix in the next 2-3 weeks. I try to keep you posted here.
How do you delete both properties afterwards? Also with a Rest call?
@hauke.hoerhold Yeah, I’m deleting the properties with a DELETE call.
@LarsStuber Thanks for following up! Do you know if this issue is tracked publicly somewhere?
@klaussner it got tracked internally. They replied that it has been fixed. I can also confirm that it is now working with
"metadata": {
"properties": {
"editor": {"value":"v2"},
"content_appearance_draft": {
"value": "fixed-width"
},
"content_appearance_published": {
"value": "fixed-width"
}
}
}
At least with my few testing its now working as expected.
What the heck, now I want to create pages in full-width and that wouldn’t work anymore?
Same here. Could you get it done in the meantime ? Or have a workaround ?
I think like this is working again:
"metadata": {
"properties": {
"editor": {
"value": "v2"
},
"content-appearance-draft": {
"value": "full-width"
},
"content-appearance-published": {
"value": "full-width"
}
}
}
(again switched _ to -)