confluence: Howto add checkbox "notify watchers" to creation of comments?

[Sven]

Hello,

often comments are used as a discussion thread. But some of my co-works get angry about the "email-storm" that is generated by a "living" discussion in the comments.

How should I proceed if I want to add a "Notify watchers"-checkbox next to the Save button in the comments editor (in the same way the checkbox exists in the normal 4.x confluence WYSIWYG-editor.

Which type of extension to use? Could this be done entirely with jquery (guess not).

Which module does contain the source-code for the comment-editor (so that I could modifiy it...)

Thanks in advance for any hint,

Bye

Sven

PS: Is there a way to get all confluence notifications only once a day?

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

And for the confluence part, in your user profile I guess you can set your preference to receive a daily digest.

[Sven]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try out what "daily updates" does in fact...

Perhaps there would be somewhere a possibility to manipulate the "message queue", so that mails gets send only once a day for everybody?

[Sven]

Finally this is what we do. It's not the best solution but it works more or less...

[NielsJ]

I think it would be very hard to add such a feature. But you can do some things to work around the problem:

• Modify your Notification Scheme so that watchers do not get notified for comments
• Maybe you add a new transition (e.g. called "Public Notification" or so) in your Workflow that triggers a custom event. This event could be referenced in your Notification Scheme and notify the watchers too.
• You can subscribe to a filter and receive dayly digests for all issues where you are a watcher (JQL: watcher in (currentuser()).

[Sven]

I guess you are talking about JIRA? I'm talking about confluence and I think there is no "Notification Scheme" there? (and no transitions and no filters)

Sorry for not saying it more precisely (I had added the tag "confluence-development", though).

Thanks anyway!

[NielsJ]

Oh, sorry. You are right. I was in a JIRA-mood or so :-)