When you watch a page, you are notified by email whenever the page is modified.
You will receive email notifications for:
- page edits (unless the "Minor change" checkbox is ticked before saving) or page deletion
- attachments (including new versions of an existing attachment or deletions of an existing attachment)
- comments (including new comments, edits of existing comments or deletions of existing comments).
Note: You will not receive notifications when page content changes simply due to the output of a macro.
For example: The output of the {children} macro will change if someone adds a child page. The page when displayed will show the new child page. But the page content itself has not been edited, so no notifications will be sent.
To watch a page, you require 'View' permission for the page.
To start watching a page,
- Go to the page.
- Click the Tools menu at the top of the page.
- Select the 'Watch Page' icon
from the list. This will be replaced with the 'Stop Watching Page' icon 
.
To stop watching a page,
- Go to the page.
- Click the Tools menu at the top of the page.
- Select the 'Stop watching Page' icon from the list. This link will be replaced the 'Watch Page' icon .
Here is an example of the email notification you will receive when a comment is added to a watched page:
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You can manage your watches via the 'Watches' tab under your user profile settings. See Managing Watches. |
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Comments (6)
Jul 24
Anonymous says:
It would be helpful if you could watch a page and all its children. For example,...It would be helpful if you could watch a page and all its children. For example, we set up project pages within our office's Wiki Space. Each project page has multiple child pages related to that project. If team members could watch the project page and all of the child pages. In this way, they could be notified when new pages are created and be automatically following them.
Jul 24
Azwandi Mohd Aris says:
Hi there, You might want to try Descendent Notification Plugin to achieve your ...Hi there,
You might want to try Descendent Notification Plugin to achieve your requirements.
Cheers,
Azwandi
Sep 14
Anonymous says:
Is there any way to watch for news, other than watching the space?Is there any way to watch for news, other than watching the space?
Sep 15
Azwandi Mohd Aris says:
Hello there, There is an improvement request at CONF-6478 that addresses this i...Hello there,
There is an improvement request at CONF-6478 that addresses this issue. Please add your comments, be a watcher and cast your vote to increase the popularity of the request. Also, please bear in mind on how we schedule improvements and new features in our products. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Azwandi
Nov 13
Bill Winett says:
How often are the email notifiations sent out? With every change? On...How often are the email notifiations sent out? With every change? Once a day? And if once a day, is there a way to change that? Even better, is there a way to allow the watcher to specify how often s/he wants to be notified of changes?
Nov 14
Azwandi Mohd Aris says:
Hi Bill, The page notifications are sent out for every change in the page. The ...Hi Bill,
The page notifications are sent out for every change in the page. The emails will be waiting in a queue that flushes every minute. To change this frequency, you can modify the cronExpression of mailQueueTrigger in schedulingSubsystemContext.xml. There is a similar tutorial on how to change the schedule of Confluence daily backup that may serve you as a reference:
I am afraid that it is currently impossible to set the schedule per user.
Hope that could be of some assistance,
Azwandi
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