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Resolution: Obsolete
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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
It's quite hard to convince the users to leave a comment in the 'What did you change?' field after they have modified a page. They just ignore the field. Since 'Notify watchers' is switched on by default, the watchers get notification mails but they cannot see what the change was about. To find out, they have to click the link and check. Quite often it was a small change and not important for them, so this proves wasted time.
We would like configuration options in Confluence administration:
- 'What did you change?' required field yes / no
- 'Notify watchers' default on / off
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- Closed
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- Gathering Interest
- is superseded by
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[CONFCLOUD-33546] Add configuration option for 'What did you change?' or 'Notify watchers'
Hi Sunny,
According to https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-cloud-editor-roadmap/, the functionnality to notify watchers on Publish was maintained in the new editor (and still exists in the legacy editor to this day).
According to https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/The-ability-to-add-version-comments-is-BACK-in-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1464221, version comments are now supported in both the legacy and new editors.
The only conclusion is that this Suggestion is no longer "Obsolete" for Confluence Cloud.
Please consider reopening.
Thank you!
Hi everyone,
This is Sunny from the Confluence team. Thank you for your feedback on adding a configuration option for 'What did you change?' or 'Notify watchers'. With the rollout of the new editor, we made a decision to remove the 'What did you change?' box. If you are a user who use this feature and would like to see it come back, please add yourself to this suggestion ticket: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65695. I will be closing the current ticket as this suggestion will be out of date with respect to the new editor. Thank you again for your feedback, and we will update https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65695 if there are any changes.
Best,
Sunny
Documentation development without change management is not documentation development, it's note-taking.
This feature will be very useful to us to distinguish between minor corrections and major changes in a document.
Hello this feature would be extremely useful when we are using confluence as a document management system in quality process. Our proposal is to have at least a warning if the comment is left empty. Even better, it should be a configurable option: mandatory, warning, nothing.
Is this functionality still not considered?
for us it is important to have this function
Any progress people? It looks like the issue was created 4 years ago.
It would also be good to trigger this if the document contains a certain label.
Please implement this into the tool.
And here we are in 2023. The what did you change box still exists in confluence cloud and there is still no way to make it mandatory.
Mandatory explanation of what you changed would be a very useful feature for compliance as it will make it easier to follow changes over time, especially after the original change author may have left the company.