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With CONF-5114 I asked for a very related feature: to be able to restrict a search to a page and all its children. The key issue here is that as spaces grow they become too large to search and/or watch the entire thing. One suggestion that might be satisfactory is if spaces could be broken up into logical sections that could be watched/searched separately. Two ways to do this are: I agree that the link to watch a space is too obscure and hidden - users tend to miss it unless it's pointed out them. Absolutely "must have" feature! With a space that consists of 500+ pages it's absolutely necessary. A) This might be greatly facilitated by the new "AncestoryIds" content metadata that has been added to each page once you install the PageTreeSearch plugin (the plugin allows searching of a page and all it's descendents). What before might have been a user interface challenge AND a daunting computational task now may become just a user interface challenge. B) rather than cycle, why not an AJAX/Javascript popup window that allows the user to select the watch mode. Also, you should be able to toggle space-wide-watch on and off without affecting your individual page watches, or in the case of this enhancement, individual pagetree watches. C) IF RSS feeds use the leucine search, you can set up an RSS feed that uses the ancestorIds field from the pagetreesearch macro to accomplish this goal. This is a MUST HAVE feature. Our space currently have more than 1000 pages. By the end of the year we expect this will have double. And this is only the beginning. We must absolutely provide to our moderator a more user friendly way to get notified of new pages for their area of coverage 1) We might need to further specify the "DEPTH" of children to watch, or at least (as guy stated but with one addition), cycle or select between:
2) In case it is not obvious, when 'watching a page and all children', you should also by default get a notification for 'new' children created in the sub-heirarchy, plus subsequent edits to that child. 3) Note: Child pages need to have an 'indicator' to show if they are being watched directly, or indirectly through some page heirarchy watch (much like they currently show if 'space-watch' is in effect. 4) As per my previous comment, space, page, children, descendants watches should be independantly selectable. For example, I should still be able to turn on/off a page watch for page B, even if it's parent A is already 'watching all children' and the space is being watched. Then if later the space watch or parent A watch are turned off, I'm still watching page B (but not the rest of the space or page heirarchy). This could dramatically reduce the number of watches a user has to manage, and is more intuitive to our users that have used other products with 'folder' style notification. We had a dev here submit a helpdesk ticket to our Confluence admin asking for this feature. In general we have a lot of requests for better notifications. While a sophisticated scheme like James Mortimer proposes might be useful at times, I'd be happy enough with just the addition of a "watch page plus descendants" option. It looks quite straightforward to implement; start with the watch-this-pagers, then climb the tree and add anyone with a "watch descendants" flag then include space watchers. Notification on new descendants is a must. What we need is to be able to assign watching briefs for branches of the knowledge base to people so they can stay informed and/or review changes. Has this issue made any progress? I can see a need for this in my current work today. Just hit a scenario today where this feature would have been perfect. Number of child pages that I wanted to watch in a space that contained top level pages covering related but discrete topics. Watching entire space would provide too many notifications. We're finding that, as we rely upon Confluence more and more, this feature is becoming more important. Due to document size, we have to break documents into smaller chunks.... we now lack the confidence that the correct people are being notified of changes. It's too easy (and painful) to find all the children to try and 'watch' them. A feature, like mentioned above... would make things a lot easier. Any Update on this feature? I can only echo the comments made by others here. A 3rd party plugin to watch a page and decendents was entered in Codegeist. Haven't installed yet bit it looks nice! Here's the link: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CODEGEIST/Descendent+Notification+Plugin We agree that this is a good feature request and popular. We want to revamp the notifications part of the product including the watch functionality, which may be a large effort. This is not currently scheduled in the roadmap, but something we will try to improve in the future. The current workaround is to watch the entire space or watch pages individually. I would also like to know if anyone has used the plugin mentioned by Jim above and any comments on it. If you're interested to know how we decide on which features to implement, please read this: Hi Audra, I believe I evaluated that plugin long time ago. The problem I found is that the notifications are statically assigned when the user signs up for notifications and are not updated when new children are added or old ones are removed (or moved). /i As far as I am concerned, http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Descendent+Notification+Plugin |
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Possibly not the most appropriate place to put this, but....
It would be really nice if a set of options appeared when you click the "watch page" icon:
You'd basically cycle through these options. The space watching option should be on there as nobody ever thinks to click "Browse Space" then "Advanced" to get to the watch space option so it would be nice if it had some greater visibility.