You can 'watch' a Confluence page, blog post or space. Confluence will then send you a notification email whenever anyone updates your watched content.
You'll receive email notifications for:
- Edits (unless the author clears the 'Notify watchers' check box).
- Deletions.
- Attachments, including new versions or deletions of an existing attachment.
- Comments, including new comments, edits of existing comments or deletions of existing comments.
By default, Confluence will assign you as a watcher of any page or blog post that you create or edit.
There's no daily digest for email notifications. You'll receive immediate emails for important notifications (like mentions and new pages), but when lots of changes are being made at the same time, you'll only receive a single email with all the changes (within a 10 minute window).
You will not receive email notifications for content changes due to the output of a macro, because the page content itself hasn't been edited.
Watching a page
To start watching a page or blog post:
- Go to the page
- Choose Watch and select the relevant check box.
To stop watching the page, deselect the relevant check box.
Watching an entire space
You can choose to watch all the pages in a particular space.
The quickest way is to use the Watch option on a page.
To stop watching the space, deselect the relevant check box.
Manage watches from your user profile
The 'Watches' page in your user profile displays a list of all pages and spaces you are currently watching.
To manage your watches:
- Choose your profile picture at top right of the screen, then choose Watches.
- Choose Stop Watching for any unwanted spaces or pages.
Manage watches from the email message
The email notifications that you receive from Confluence have some useful links at the bottom of the email message.
- Stop watching page – Click this link to stop watching the page that triggered the email notification.
- Stop watching space – Click this link to stop watching the space that triggered the email notification.
- Stop following this user – Click this link to stop following the user whose update triggered the email notification.
- Manage Notifications – Click this link to go to the email settings page in your user profile.
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