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Today, users can only Publish without notifying watchers by clicking into the ellipsis menu, and selecting "Publish without Notifying Watchers." Users can only do so on consecutive updates to their page, but NOT on initial Publish.
At Confluence, we hear the need to provide quick and easy ways for creators to control who gets notified and when.
Customer Feedback noted here with the release of the new Publish Dialog.
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[CONFCLOUD-76412] Provide more control and accessibility over user ability to 'Publish without Notifying Watchers'
| Support reference count | New: 3 |
| Link | New: This issue is related to CONFCLOUD-6373 [ CONFCLOUD-6373 ] |
| Remote Link | New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 807703 ] |
Hi All! Thank you for all of your feedback here. We've heard loud and clear that the need to update/ publish a document with version comments and without notify watchers is an important part of your workflow.
Therefore, we have added the "notify watchers" check box into the "Update Dialog" for consecutive updates to your published pages. You will now be able to click the 'carrot' dropdown next to the "update" button to update your pages with version comments, and without notify watchers.
This improvement should land in your instances in the next couple of days! No action is needed on your end.
We will continue to discuss the notify watchers functionality for the initial publish dialog.
Thanks again!
Sam
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Today, users can only Publish without notifying watchers by clicking into the ellipsis menu, and selecting "Publish without Notifying Watchers." Users can only do so on consecutive updates to their page, but NOT on initial Publish.
Additionally, users can no longer "Publish a new version with version comments AND publish without notifying watchers" with the release of the new Publish Dialog. At Confluence, we hear the need to provide quick and easy ways for creators to control who gets notified and when. Customer Feedback noted here with the release of the new Publish Dialog. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/A-better-publishing-experience-is-coming-to-you/ba-p/2395090/page/2 |
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Today, users can only Publish without notifying watchers by clicking into the ellipsis menu, and selecting "Publish without Notifying Watchers." Users can only do so on consecutive updates to their page, but NOT on initial Publish.
At Confluence, we hear the need to provide quick and easy ways for creators to control who gets notified and when. Customer Feedback noted here with the release of the new Publish Dialog. [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/A-better-publishing-experience-is-coming-to-you/ba-p/2395090/page/2] |
I would also like to be able to publish a new version of a page with:
- changes so small I don't want a notification sent
- BUT a version comment to record what those changes are (and therefore why there was no notification needed).
Coming from a coding background, adding a "commit message" to log what changes I made for future reference is a habit I'd like to maintain.
| Remote Link | New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 805151 ] |
Please let us use a functionality that we have already grown accustomed to and make use of on a daily basis: adding version comments without notifying watchers.
I am concerned that one of two things will happen:
- Our users will update pages with a version comment every time and notify all watchers. This is great for versioning and creating a changelog for the page - but will inundate our users with email notifications! This will reduce the impact of email notifications and lead to more users to either: a) stop watching a space, or b) ignore their email notifications from Confluence. We do not want either of these outcomes to occur.
- Our users will use "publish without notifying watchers" more often, and not add any version comments. This maintains the integrity of the email notification as a signifier that "hey, an important update has happened", but it means our version history will cease to function as a usable changelog, and users will have to painstakingly crawl through dozens of versions to identify when a specific minor update was made.
Please bring back this functionality!
| Remote Link | New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 804185 ] |
Great to see a checkbox today for "Notify watchers by email" (that I can un-check for my spelling/grammar/formatting nitpicks)
That's my request done.