How to receive notifications when deadlines are approaching?

[Sara Franzini Gabrielli]

If I've been assigned to a task or an action item and there is a deadline, a date within which I have to complete the task, is there the possibility to receive a notification when this date is approaching? Like receiving a notification 1 week before, then 3 days before, and the day before.

[Hamza Chundrigar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sara Franzini Gabrielli 

Welcome to the community.

At the moment, without a 3rd party option, this isn’t possible with out of the box Confluence functionality.

However there was a status update by Atlassian on March 11th, 2022 that suggests this is coming:

Hi folks, my name is Daniel Ayele and I'm a Product Manager on the Confluence team where I manage our collaboration feature family. Thank you for your feedback and suggestion to add the ability to create task reminders in Confluence. I'm excited to announce that we have plans on our roadmap to make a number of improvements to the tasks experience in Confluence in the next 12-18 months, including improving task creation, a new tasks home experience, updates to the task report macro, and a new task reminder notification.

You can view details and vote/watch on the ticket here: 

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-36087
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-35150
  
  

One of the most, if not the most cheapest option I’ve found available for an add-on to satisfy your use case could be this app: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214272/task-reminder-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=pricing

Best regards,

Hamza

[Sara Franzini Gabrielli]

Thank you so much Hamza, very appreciated.

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sara Franzini Gabrielli ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

There is an open request for this purpose https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-34389

Please vote it and keep up to date. As workaround, there is an external app https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214272/task-reminder-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

Hope this helps,

Fabio

[Sara Franzini Gabrielli]

Thank you so much Fabio, I'll look at the links.

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

There are several apps (like this one) that can send you task reminders.

Try if any of those are configurable to your use case with multiple periods.