push email notification when content changed

[Michelle Pasker]

I am trying to push an email to all users after i publish a change.  I have added the names to the manage watchers.  I change content , the notify watchers is checked, hit publish and they don't get an email.  What don't I understand or have right?

Thank you

[leigh morresi]

If you wanted to go one step further than email to something more modern, and get  push notifications to your team via Discord, Slack, Rocket.Chat, email, MS365, AppRise and about 80+ other methods you could use changedetection io website change notifications  and/or their OpenSource code at https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

Then just point it at your confluence page or whatever it is that you need, they have an API that you can call to automatically add/follow pages too

This works best for my team because we're using RocketChat and are flooded by emails :)

[AnnWorley]

Hi Michelle,

The users also have to have the Show changed content box checked in their profile>settings>email:

Did the users get the email after you posted this question? I ask because I was testing notifications in Confluence Cloud earlier and found it can take 10 minutes to get the email for an edit. This is because of batched email notifications for multiple edits.

I look forward to hearing if the users that did not get the email have the Show changed content box checked under their profiles, or whether they did get the notifications after a few minutes.

Thanks,

Ann

[Michelle Pasker]

Thanks Ann,  

That is what I had to do is mark the 'show changed content', we got the emails  I will assume I would need to change each users email settings to do a 'mass email' if I change content on a page??  

It did take about 10 minutes for the emails to come thru.

Thank you,

Michelle

[AnnWorley]

Yes, if you need everyone to get an email triggered by an edit then everyone would need to have the show changed content option checked. One way to work around this for a mass email would be:

1. Create an email distribution list with all the users
2. Create a user account in Confluence, using the email address of the distribution list for the email of the "user"
3. Check the box for the 'show changed content' option for that user's profile
4. Set that user as a watcher on the page
5. Edit the page - it should send a notification to the distribution group