How to disable Collaborative Editing through REST API call
Purpose
If you are unable to edit pages you might need to temporarily disable the Collaborative Editor while following the Troubleshooting Collaborative Editing guide. Sometimes the Collaborative Editor cannot be disabled via the UI as described in Administering Collaborative Editing. If you are affected by this, you can alternatively disable it through a REST call.
Solution
Disabling Collaborative Editing will delete any shared drafts that might exist.
- Send a POST to
<base_url>/confluence/rest/synchrony-interop/disable
Sample Python script that will disable Collaborate Editing:
import requests def main(): # Change the following to work with your Confluence instance including any context path base_url = 'http://localhost:8090/' username = 'admin' password = 'admin' # End change block session = requests.session() session.auth = (username, password) headers = {'X-Atlassian-Token': 'no-check'} resp = session.post('{0}/rest/synchrony-interop/disable'.format(base_url), headers=headers) print(resp) print(resp.content) main()