Delete a blog post without notifying watchers?

[it@oni.gov.au]

I am running Confluence 6.10.2 on premises. Is there any way I can delete a blog-post without notifying everyone that's watching the page? 

[Ravi Varma · Accepted solution]

Hi it@oni.gov.au,

Go to Manage Watchers link in the blog post as shown in the below image

Manage Watchers popup will be shown (Refer below image)

1. Delete all the users mentioned under Watching this page by clicking on the respective Trash icon. This would ensure that there are no watchers to this page and hence, if the blog post is deleted, no notifications would be sent.
2. If there are watchers at the space level,
   1. You may want to remove them first
   2. Delete the blog post
   3. Add them back after the blog post is deleted.
   4. You need permissions to manage the watchers, to perform this action.

For further details, please refer Atlassian documentation - https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-watchers-218271870.html

Regards,

Ravi Varma

[it@oni.gov.au]

Hi @Ravi Varma, 

Thank you for your answer, however there are ~400 users watching the page - for the express purposes of being kept up to date. I would hate to:

1. Trash each one individually

2. Expect each of them to re-subscribe again 

Can you confirm that there is no other way?

[Ravi Varma]

Hi it@oni.gov.au,

Refer to the below screenshot

You have to delete the records from NOTIFICATIONS table where CONTENTID={BLOG_POST_ID}. 

If you are not aware about the BLOG_POST_ID, you need to hover over the Edit button of the blog post and the browser will show the URL with pageId. In my case, the CONTENTID/pageId is 1671171 (Refer to the below image for URL at the bottom left corner highlighted in RED)

 This should work for you.

Please test this in stage/test environment as this involves deleting database records, before executing in production.

Regards,

Ravi Varma

[it@oni.gov.au]

Thanks @Ravi Varma I will give this a try and let you know how I go.