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Autowatch and Email Notifications Issue is resolved
Terrell Johnson posted on Nov 15, 2011

Hey everyone,

The Wikis Service Team is very happy to announce that we implemented a solution to the "Autowatch email notifications issue" many of clients were having. Last Friday, Novembver 11th, we turned off the autowatch feature that automatically emailed page and space notifications to all users of the space. 

What does that mean? Users who create or edit pages will not automatically recieve notifications about changes made to those edited pages. If you want to allow users to watch a page and recieve notifications please follow the instructions below.

You can 'watch' a page, a blog post or a space. Confluence will then send you a notification by email whenever anyone adds or updates content on that page, blog post or space. You can also subscribe to daily email reports and other notifications of various updates, as described below

For instructions on configuring an email server so that Confluence can send email notifications, see the administrator's guide to Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail.

On this page:

Receiving Regular Email Notifications of Updates by Watching a Page, Blog Post or Space

You can 'watch' a Confluence page, a blog post or a space. To do this, you need 'View' permission on the page, blog post or space. Once you have added a watch, Confluence will then send you a notification by email whenever anyone updates the page, blog post or space. The updates include editing the page or blog post, adding a new page or blog post to the space, and adding a comment to the page, blog post or space.

  • There is no daily digest for these notifications. You will receive an email notification every time someone makes a change.
  • You can choose the pages, blog posts and/or spaces that you want to watch. You can stop watching them at any time.
  • By default, Confluence will assign you as a watcher of any page or blog post that you create or edit. This behaviour is called 'autowatch'. You can turn autowatch on or off.
  • When you add a comment to a page, Confluence will by default put a tick in the 'Watch this page' check box in the comment. You can remove the tick before posting your comment.


To set up a watch on a specific page, blog post or space, see:

The above pages also tell you how to stop watching.

Editing Your Email Notification Settings in Your User Profile

In addition to watching a page or space, as described above, you can set up various other notifications and configure the format of your notifications.

To configure the settings described on the rest of this page, you need to go to the 'Email Settings' page in your user profile.

To edit your email notification settings,

  1. Go to the 'Settings' view for your user profile. To do this:

    • Log in to Confluence, if you have not already done so.
    • Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'User' menu. A dropdown list will appear when your cursor hovers over the 'User' menu.)
    • Select 'Settings' from the dropdown list. The 'Settings' view will open.
  2. Click the 'Email' link in the left-hand panel. The 'Email Settings' screen will appear.
  3. Click the 'Edit' button.

Turning Autowatch On or Off

By default, Confluence will assign you as a watcher of any page that you create or edit. This behaviour is called 'autowatch'. Autowatch is turned on by default. You can turn it off and on, as described below.

  • Turning autowatch on has the following effect:
    • You are automatically a watcher of any page or blog post that you create.
    • You are automatically a watcher of any page or blog post that you edit.
    • When you add a comment, the 'Watch this page' check box in the comment is ticked by default. You can remove the tick before posting the comment.
  • Even after you have turned autowatch off, you will still be watching all the pages that autowatch has already marked for you to watch (as well as any pages you have 'watched' yourself). You will need to stop watching each page or blog post individually. The links at the bottom of the email notification make this easy.

To turn autowatch off,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Remove the tick from the check box beside 'Autowatch'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

To turn autowatch on,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Select the check box beside 'Autowatch'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

Receiving Notification of Your Own Actions

You can choose to receive an email notification about content changes that you yourself have made.

  • This setting will affect all of your subscriptions and page/space watches.
  • If you have not subscribed to any email notifications and are not watching any pages/spaces, then selecting this setting will not do anything.
  • The email message is sent immediately after a change is made.

To subscribe to email notifications for changes that you yourself have made,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Select the check box beside 'Notify on my actions'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

Receiving Regular Email Notifications of All New Blog Posts

You can subscribe to email notifications for all new blog posts in your Confluence site that you have permission to view.

  • This includes all new blog posts. It does not include updates to or deletions of blog posts, nor any comments added to blog posts.
  • The email message is sent immediately after a change is made.

To subscribe to email notifications about all new blog posts,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Select the check box beside 'Subscribe to all blog posts'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

Receiving Regular Email Notifications of New Blog Posts in a Given Space

You can subscribe to email notifications for new blog posts in a specific space, provided you have permission to view that space.

  • This includes all new blog posts in the space. It does not include updates to or deletions of blog posts, nor any comments added to blog posts.
  • The email message is sent immediately after a change is made.

See Watching a Space.

Receiving Regular Email Notifications of Changes by Users You Are Following

You can subscribe to email notifications for changes to content by all users that you are following. You must have permission to view the content that has been changed by the user for it to be included in the notifications.

  • If you are not following any users, then selecting the setting below will not do anything.
  • Confluence will only send you notifications if you select the setting described below. If you follow a person but do not select the setting, Confluence will not send notifications of the user's actions.
  • The content changes that will trigger a notification are:
    • Pages being added, edited or deleted.
    • Blog posts being added, edited or deleted.
    • Comments being added, edited or deleted.
    • Status updates by the user.
  • The email message is sent immediately after a change is made.

To subscribe to email notifications for changes made by users you are following,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Select the check box beside 'Subscribe to network'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

Receiving Daily Email Reports

You can subscribe to a daily email report showing all changes to content in all spaces that you have permission to view.

  • The daily report is not a digest of the notifications from pages/spaces that you are watching. You will receive the daily report in addition to those notifications.
  • The changes in the report include:
    • Pages being added, edited or deleted.
    • Blog posts being added, edited or deleted.
    • Comments on a page or blog post being added, edited or deleted.
    • Updates by users who have changed their personal profile.
  • Daily email reports do not include information about attachments that are added, edited or deleted on a page or blog post.

To subscribe to the daily report,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. Select the check box beside 'Subscribe to daily updates'.
  3. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.

Setting the Format and Content of the Email Messages

You can decide on the format of the email message (HTML or plain text) and the content of the email message (changes made and/or full content of the updated page or blog post).

To configure the format and content of the email notification,

  1. Go to the email notification settings page in your user profile and open the page for editing, as described above.
  2. From the 'Email format' drop-down menu, select whether you want to receive your notifications as HTML or plain text. This will apply to all your email notifications, including your page/space watches.
  3. If you want your notification to include a list of the changes made to the content, select the check box beside 'Show changed content'. This requires HTML format for your emails.
  4. If you want your notification to include the full content of the updated page or blog post, select the check box beside 'Show full content'. This requires HTML format for your emails.
  5. Click 'Submit' when you have finished updating all settings as you wish.


Screenshot: Subscribing to email notifications

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SSO & Editing Office Documents
Terrell Johnson posted on Sep 20, 2011

We are pleased to announce that the issues with editing Microsoft Office Documents after the SSO upgrade have been completely resolved.

 Please expand to review the resolution information

Feature Explanation

The Office Connector is bundled with Confluence 2.10 and later. It allows you to:

  • Use Microsoft Office or OpenOffice to edit a Confluence page.
  • Import an Office document into Confluence, converting its content to wiki format.
  • Attach an Office document to a Confluence page and display its content in Confluence, without converting the content.
  • Edit the attached document in the Office application, directly from the Confluence page.

For more information about this feature click the following: ¿¿¿Working with the Office Connector

Issue

When a client clicks the "edit document" button after embedding a document into a page or by clicking "edit document" in the attachments section of a space, the appropriate office application launches and a permissions prompt asks the user for their netid and password. Upon entering their credentials, the user is allowed to make changes to the office file within the office application and save the changes back to their wiki page. After the SSO upgrade, when entering the credentials, the user is presented with a login loop that is cancelled out after four attempts.

This incident has been tested on Windows 7/XP with Firefox, IE and Chrome.

Resolution

This issue has been resolved as of September 20, 2011

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¿¿¿Working with the Office Connector

Scheduled Maintenance and SSO
Terrell Johnson posted on Sep 08, 2011

Dear NYU & ITS Wikis users,

We are going to take NYU & ITS Wikis offline on Friday, September 9 from 10¿ p.m. - Midnight for scheduled maintenance. This work will include ¿the inclusion of NYU & ITS Wikis in NYU's "single sign-on" system, by which¿ users can be signed on to many different NYU-supported services at¿ once.

After NYU & ITS Wikis comes back online, you may notice that the login ¿process has changed slightly. Here's what you'll see:

NYU Wikis

You will still access NYU Wikis by typing https://wikis.nyu.edu into the address bar in your browser.  The login page will be the same as the NYUHome login page.  Enter your NYU Netid and Password, click GO and you will be directed to the normal NYU Wikis Dashboard.

ITS Wikis

You will still access ITS Wikis by typing https://jira.nyu.edu into the address bar in your browser.  The login page will be the same as the NYUHome login page.  Enter your NYU Netid and Password, click GO and you will be directed to the normal ITS Wikis Dashboard.

Questions?

If you have any questions about this, please write to askits@nyu.edu.

Thank you,

NYU Wikis Service Team

Confluence 1.3.4 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Feb 14, 2005

Confluence 1.3.4 is a maintenance release which includes a small number of important fixes to Confluence. It is a recommended upgrade for all customers.

Confluence 1.3.4 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

Further Reading

Confluence 1.3.2 Released
Unknown User (nick@atlassian.com) posted on Jan 21, 2005

Confluence 1.3.2 is a maintenance release which includes 30 bug fixes and improvements which users may have noticed or requested.

Confluence 1.3.2 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

Further Reading

Confluence 1.3.1 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Dec 19, 2004

Confluence 1.3.1 is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs that users may have encountered using Confluence 1.3.

Confluence 1.3.1 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

Further Reading

Confluence 1.3 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Nov 30, 2004

Confluence 1.3 is now available for download. Confluence 1.3 introduces a powerful mail archive to better capture your team's communication. We've also revamped the space summary and administration pages, overhauled content indexing and referrer tracking, enhanced space permissions, and written a whole new setup wizard to make getting Confluence up and running even easier.

Be sure to read the release-notes for upgrade instructions and a detailed run-down of all the new features.

Confluence 1.3 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

More Information

Confluence 1.3 DR3 released
Unknown User (mike@atlassian.com) posted on Oct 22, 2004

Confluence 1.3-DR3 is the third of our experimental Development Releases on the road to 1.3. These snapshot builds let us deliver features more regularly to people who don't mind being on the bleeding edge, give customers early access to features they may have been waiting months for, or just let you guys see how the next major Confluence release is shaping up.

While we make an effort to ensure that we're in a stable and releasable state in time for each DR build, development releases may contain unfinished features, or interesting bugs. If you don't want to follow the development releases yourself, we'll be running the most recent DR build on on http://confluence.atlassian.com/. (We're also running our private extranet on DR3. We don't release anything we wouldn't run ourselves.)

More Information

Confluence 1.3-DR1 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Sep 24, 2004

Confluence 1.3-DR1 is the first of our experimental Development Releases on the road to 1.3. These snapshot builds let us deliver features more regularly to people who don't mind being on the bleeding edge, give customers early access to features they may have been waiting months for, or just let you guys see how the next major Confluence release is shaping up.

While we make an effort to ensure that we're in a stable and releasable state in time for each DR build, development releases may contain unfinished features, or interesting bugs. If you don't want to follow the development releases yourself, we'll be running the most recent DR build on on http://confluence.atlassian.com/. (We're also running our private extranet on DR1. We don't release anything we wouldn't run ourselves.)

More Information

Confluence 1.2.2 - Recommended Upgrade
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Sep 23, 2004

Confluence 1.2.2 is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs that users may have encountered using Confluence 1.2 or 1.2.1. It fixes problems with attachment downloading, text file imports and text-only emails.

Confluence 1.2.2 is a recommended upgrade for all Confluence customers, as it fixes a serious bug that can cause corrupted attachment downloads.

Confluence 1.2.2 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

Further Reading

1.2.1 Errata - Thumbnail Quality
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Sep 09, 2004

It has been pointed out to us that the bicubic image scaling hint that we use in Confluence 1.2.1 is in fact ignored by all JDK's prior to version 5.0. The sole exception is Mac OS X. As such, customers upgrading to 1.2.1 will only see increased thumbnail quality if:

  1. You are running Confluence on JDK 5.0 (not recommended, since it's still a pre-release, and we haven't tested Confluence in this configuration)
  2. You are running Confluence on JDK 1.4.2 on Mac OS X

We apologise for the error.

Confluence 1.2.1 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Sep 09, 2004

Confluence 1.2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs that users may have encountered using Confluence 1.2. It incorporates improvements to performance for large Confluence installations; and fixes bugs related to the remote API, over-use of disk space, and a few annoying errors users were experiencing when setting up a new Confluence instance.

Confluence 1.2.1 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

Further Reading

Confluence 1.2 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Aug 23, 2004

Confluence 1.2 is now available for download. Confluence 1.2 features an enhanced search interface, new ways to explore the content of spaces, threaded comments, image thumbnails and galleries, a new permissions interface, and a raft of additional improvements and bug fixes.

Be sure to read the release notes for upgrade instructions and a detailed run-down of all the new features.

Confluence 1.2 is a free upgrade for any existing Confluence customer. If you're not a Confluence customer, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial, Also don't forget we offer free licenses to registered non-profit organisations and qualifying open source projects.

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Confluence 1.1 Released
Unknown User (cmiller) posted on Jun 09, 2004

Confluence 1.1 is now available for download. Confluence 1.1 features several new features including attachment versioning, WebDAV support and page-level locking, as well as many bug-fixes and performance enhancements. Be sure to read the release notes for a comprehensive list of new features, and upgrade instructions.

Second Confluence Client released
Unknown User (mike@atlassian.com) posted on Apr 22, 2004

Jon Lipsky has been doing some wonderful work on a Confluence client recently (see his blog entry and the XMLFace examples page for screenshots and webstartable versions).

Although primarily intended as an example of using his companies' XMLFace library (an XML gui definition library which allows you to generate Swing and SWT interfaces) it is actually quite a useful Confluence rich client. It doesn't yet have TimTam's sexy tree view, but it does work with Swing (albeit with an ugly HTML renderer) and support searching across all spaces - neat!

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