User Status Updates

Setting or updating your status

To set or update your status:

1. Log in to Confluence, if you have not already done so.
2. Go to your name (the 'User' menu) at the top of the page and choose Update Status. The 'What are you working on' dialog will open.
3. Enter a short message (140 characters maximum) that describes your current status or what you are working on.
4. Click Update to publish your new or updated status to the activity streams (mentioned above), your personal space sidebar, your profile page and your status updates page.

Screenshot: User status window

Viewing your status updates

To view your status updates:

• Go to the 'Status Updates' view for your user profile. To do this:

  1. Go to your name (the 'User' menu) at the top of the page and choose Status Updates.

You can also view another user's status by going to their profile.

Screenshot: Status updates view

Clearing your current status

You can clear your current status message using your profile or your status updates view.

Clearing a message is not the same as deleting it. If you clear a message, it is still shown in your status updates view until it is deleted.

Deleting a status update

To delete your current or a previous status message:

1. Go to the 'Status Updates' view for your user profile.
2. Click Delete next to the appropriate status message. Your status updates view will be refreshed and the message you deleted removed from the list.

More about user status updates

There are a number of activity streams in Confluence that show different types of status updates. These include:

• The 'Recently Updated' list on the Confluence Dashboard, which shows all status updates (when the All tab is selected).
• Your Network page, which shows the status updates of Confluence users you are following.
• The Network page of Confluence users who are following you, which shows your status updates.
• The Recently Updated and Recently Updated Dashboard macros, which shows all status updates (provided that these macros' space parameters have been set to '@all').
• Any Confluence user's 'Activity' section of their Profile Sidebar, which is available on all pages within their personal space and shows their status updates.

While activity streams show recent status updates, they may soon disappear from the end of the list as subsequent user activity items appear on these streams. However, you can view any Confluence user's current status message in the following areas:

• Their Hover Profile.
• The Profile section of their Profile Sidebar, which is available on all pages within their personal space.
• Their Profile page.

You can also view any Confluence user's entire history of User Status updates in their Status Updates page.

Disabling status updates

The functionality is provided by a plugin called 'User Status'. To remove the status updates functionality from your site, you can disable the plugin. See Disabling or Enabling a Plugin.

You can also control which users can and cannot use status updates with the global permissions. By default, users will not have permission to use this feature. See Global Permissions Overview.