How to best track Exported pages?

Question

I was wondering whether an export event might show up as a notation somewhere, perhaps within the Page History...

The purpose is not to restrict, but in the spirit of the collaboration, it would be useful to know if someone needed to export a document to work on it offline... then those who access the page can see that the present version may be in the process of being updated...

We can always update with a notation within the page itself.  Moving it elsewhere might create confusion as to its absence.  Create a label for this temporary status?

I am new to the system, so perhaps there is a more obvious way to do this?

Thank you

Kevin Meehan_rm0tqp · Answer

Thank you, Srinatha.

It seems that page export is indeed available as an auditable event, however only through the Data Center, and not Cloud.

I've seen that notion in other posts as well; that this type of feature is not conducive to collaboration... Not sure I agree... the idea is to provide all users a 'heads up' that a particular document may be in the process of offline revision... this helps with collaboration by providing open communication and avoiding confusion.

Ideally the notation would be within the Page History for anyone who accessed the Page to see, and not buried within an Audit log as a security component.

Anyway, I guess it does indicate that there hasn't been a need for this within the community... we'll think of how to implement using existing functionality... Perhaps a Label that could be added/removed as needed to identify this status might work.

Thanks again, your reply is most appreciated.

Srinatha Tondihal · Answer

Hi @Kevin Meehan ,

Welcome to Atlassian community. Hope your doing fine.

I think you can use the Audit logs and check for page exports. You might want to check on the same. To be honest we never had the requirement to audit for page exports because confluence is a collaborative tool . So, you will have to experiment on that . Below URL will help you.

* Auditing in confluence.

Also, you might want to vote for the below feature request.

* CONFCLOUD-62555 - Audit the page export

I hope the above information helps. Have a good day.!

Thanks,

Srinath T