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Turn off default auto watch in 3.5?

Emily Johnson

Does anyone know if you can change the default setting in Confluence 3.5 so that people do not have watches auto-added to pages that they create or edit? This will keep us from having every individual go uncheck this box manually.

Thanks,

Emily

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Colin Goudie

Hey emily, have a look at this link, http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content From those docs though it only seems to discuss setting setting it on/off per user

Mark Hrynczak

The config lives in an XML file: <tt><confluence install>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-x.x.x.jar/preferences-default.xml</tt>.

You need to change the boolean value to false, thus:

<preference type="Boolean">
       <name>confluence.prefs.watch.my.own.content</name>
       <value>false</value>
   </preference>

Then place it as <tt><confluence install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/preferences-default.xml</tt> and restart Confluence.

For more details on modifying jarred config files, please refer to this doc: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+Files+within+JAR+Archives

Akeles

I see that users can turn on/off via the instructions at

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content#SubscribingtoEmailNotificationsofUpdatestoConfluenceContent-TurningAutowatchOnorOff

Akeles

It will be good to have this as configurable on the UI instead of the xml file.

Emily Johnson

Yeah, it would be nice to have it configurable via UI---we have a hosted instance so I can't modify jar files myself.

Akeles

Hi Emily,

Please check out http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content#SubscribingtoEmailNotificationsofUpdatestoConfluenceContent-TurningAutowatchOnorOff

Jon Verville

Here is a quick solution I put together to disable autowatch on particular pages. It is done by adding a macro to the content of a wiki page. http://jonverve.posterous.com/confluence-control-auto-watching-behavior