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  2. CONFSERVER-41018

Change author/owner of a page

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      Hi Atlassian,

      in many cases, we have the need to change the author/owner of a page. In most of the cases, responisiblity changes or persons come and go. In other cases, pages are created by our support, due to complex imports or similar actions.

      The impact of page ownership is massive, as you know. We struggle with the archiving plugin for ex, which tends to produce spam to all contributors, if it is not the author who is to be notified.

      By now, the only supported workaround is recreating the page and moving all subpages, which is complicated and has many drawbacks (linking for ex).

      It would be very helpful if changing the owner of a page could be a simple task for confluence-administrators, space-admins and the current owners of the pages.

      I thank you in advance for your consideration.

      Best wishes

      Matin

            [CONFSERVER-41018] Change author/owner of a page

            Iain Davidson added a comment -

            FYI, after searching around various answers on similar questions.  There was a post to this paid plugin to change the owner of a page.
            (disclaimer: I have not used this plug in to see how successful it is in updating. But I don't see any reason why one can't use the plug-in for only a month to change the pages, then don't renew subscription.)
            https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225778/page-owner?tab=reviews&hosting=cloud

            Here is some background on how to create a query to do it yourself.
            https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-change-the-creator-of-a-page-720830744.html

            Iain Davidson added a comment - FYI, after searching around various answers on similar questions.  There was a post to this paid plugin to change the owner of a page. (disclaimer: I have not used this plug in to see how successful it is in updating. But I don't see any reason why one can't use the plug-in for only a month to change the pages, then don't renew subscription.) https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225778/page-owner?tab=reviews&hosting=cloud Here is some background on how to create a query to do it yourself. https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-change-the-creator-of-a-page-720830744.html

            sanjay added a comment -

            We also have such requests to change the Page ownership.

            Thanks

             

            sanjay added a comment - We also have such requests to change the Page ownership. Thanks  

            Adam Barnes (Inactive) added a comment -

            Thank you for your interest in this feature request, this request is a duplicate of CONF-7247. Please vote and comment on the linked issue if you have not already.

            Adam Barnes (Inactive) added a comment - Thank you for your interest in this feature request, this request is a duplicate of CONF-7247 . Please vote and comment on the linked issue if you have not already.

            Midori added a comment -

            Matthew is probably right, because it seems even the official recommendation is to do this through the database.

            Midori added a comment - Matthew is probably right, because it seems even the official recommendation is to do this through the database .

            Matthew Page added a comment -

            Im pretty sure that the REST API doesn't allow update of the Creator .. the "author" isn't the right word here because that might mean the last editor.  The request is to change the "creator" and that isn't available to the REST interface.

            Matthew Page added a comment - Im pretty sure that the REST API doesn't allow update of the Creator .. the "author" isn't the right word here because that might mean the last editor.  The request is to change the "creator" and that isn't available to the REST interface.

            David Luke added a comment -

            If anyone verifies Ferenc's suggestion, please let us know.

            David Luke added a comment - If anyone verifies Ferenc's suggestion, please let us know.

            Midori added a comment -

            Assuming that this should be a bulk operation (transferring pages originally created by "john" to "jack", by updating the author property), you could try this workaround:

            1. use CQL to find all content where "john" is an author
            2. change the author to "jack" using the Confluence REST API

            Note: I haven't verified if point 2 is allowed by the REST API, but we are also a little affected by this, being the developers of the Archiving Plugin.

            Midori added a comment - Assuming that this should be a bulk operation (transferring pages originally created by "john" to "jack", by updating the author property), you could try this workaround: use CQL to find all content where "john" is an author change the author to "jack" using the Confluence REST API Note: I haven't verified if point 2 is allowed by the REST API, but we are also a little affected by this, being the developers of the Archiving Plugin .

            Dennis Lawrence added a comment -

            +1 - I have requests in to change ownership of a page as well.

            Dennis Lawrence added a comment - +1 - I have requests in to change ownership of a page as well.

            IT Access added a comment -

            +1 - We need this.

            IT Access added a comment - +1 - We need this.

            Matthew Page added a comment -

            Are there any comments on this one? It says that it still "needs verification" ? I think this is a high value enhancement especially since I did a migration of 50,000 pages in from a different system so now it thinks I'm the creator of all of them. As you may imagine I just have to filter all confluence mails to the trash to not get copied on every edit.

            Matthew Page added a comment - Are there any comments on this one? It says that it still "needs verification" ? I think this is a high value enhancement especially since I did a migration of 50,000 pages in from a different system so now it thinks I'm the creator of all of them. As you may imagine I just have to filter all confluence mails to the trash to not get copied on every edit.

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