Summary

By default, Confluence has the Collaborative Editing feature so multiple users can edit the same draft together and have all changes published.

This is a great feature to help with collaboration, avoiding losing changes published by someone and also, make it practical to publish it all at once. However, for users that would like to keep their changes in the draft state for further review, this provides a challenge if someone publishes the page.

Although Confluence has a warning stating that changes added by other users will be also added, people can still publish the changes without the consent of the other user that is adding content to the draft.

Suggestion

This is a suggestion to allow the changes made by a specific user to be kept as a draft while other users will publish the page. For example, some alternatives:

• Allow users to only publish their own changes.
• During the warning, ask if People want to publish changes made by X, Y and, Z user(s) and select which one of them should be published.
• Restrict the publishing until all users editing the page confirm that the changes are ready from all sides.
• Allow users editing the page to select a "sharing" or "not sharing" mode. This way, if the user selects the "not sharing" mode, the changes will be only displayed for the account that selected it, avoiding other users publishing it.