Is there a way to accurately audit user changes with collaborative editing enabled?

Ryan Wild

Hi Folks,

Apologies if this has in fact been asked before, my google skills are not helping me.

 

I've been setting up Confluence now and we've got users that are actively using it, however one of our requirements is that all changes must be attributable back to the user that made them, and not another person. Mainly so someone can't 'Sneak in' and make a change to 'Frame' the other person editing it sort of thing.

 

From what I can see, the only way to do this is to disable collaborative editing entirely (Which we've done so far), I'm wondering if there are any tools / add-ons that can be used that accurately audit the changes that the individual users make to the pages? I'm keen to re-enable collaborative editing, but need to be able to put something in place to make sure we don't end up potentially getting 1 person in trouble for something "They wrote" when in fact there were 11 other people there editing the page at the same time.

 

Any guidance here would be great

Diego_88dj6o

Hello @Ryan Wild !

As I understand, you need to have the exact information of who added any specific part of the page edit. This does sound useful to avoid problems, as you have stated.

However, this is not available natively in Confluence. Here is an excerpt from our documentation:

Limited content auditing

We don’t yet have the same auditing capabilities with collaborative editing. All page changes are currently attributed to the person that publishes the page, rather than the person who made each specific change.

Here is the complete document:

• [Confluence Server] Collaborative Editing

The next best thing I could manage to find were plugins from our marketplace that would make it possible for you to enforce approval workflows before pages are published:

• [Atlassian Marketplace] Confluence Server – approval

I hope this helps! Let us hear from you.