push email notification when content changed

Question

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 · Answer

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 · Answer

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:

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

Michelle Pasker · Answer

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