Glad this exists but wish it was possible to do this en masse - multi-select pages to update the owner of. Being able to bulk update would help a lot since there are many pages/subpages and all need to be changed.
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June 30, 2023 edited
Hey @Darrel Jackson page owner is currently not queryable in the page properties report macro. We hear your feedback and are undertaking initial work to make this field queryable so that it can be used in macros. Thank you!
Only the current page owner, and space and site admins are able to change the owner of a page, including when the owner you'd like to change is deactivated/deleted.
Someone at Atlassian apparently thought space home pages/ overview pages somehow are so different from "regular" pages, that you shouldn't be able to change the owner on them, although one can swap out an arbitrary page as a new space home page.
@Friedrich Beyer Yes, that's a really weird decision to distinguish homepages from normal ones. In addition to what you mentioned, you can't easily edit labels on them, you can't see the byline items (grey row under the page title). I don't get it why.
@Tiffany Chung I'd like to see an option for an Org Admin to be able to make updates without notifying the original owner. I can see many cases where an employee who is soon being terminated or leaving the company may have to have their pages re-assigned and I wouldn't want to send up some warning signs or red flags. I think there should be a distinction between the actions taken by an Org Admin vs. a Space Admin in this case, with the Org Admin having more stealth capabilities.
Otherwise this is a fantastic update for the community and Confluence and thanks for sharing!
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July 19, 2023 edited
We're really happy about this feature and we're using it nearly on a daily basis (especially to update old pages). My team and I even created a Tl;dr short about this news. Thanks for implementing this!
This is a great feature! Are there any plans to be able to use a "Team" to own a page? I see no mention of this as an option. We have quite a few pages where ownership is collective rather than individual.
One important missing sub-function, in my opinion, is the ability to perform batch ownership change on selected pages or on all pages in an entire space, for example.
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That feature has been awaited for a long time. I really didn't like becoming the owner of the pages that I helped move or copy to a new Space. This created confusion about who the real owner of the page is.
When can we assign an owner to a Space, just like a project lead in Jira projects? Implementing this feature should not be too difficult.
In everyday work, people are requesting access to different Spaces and pages. Without ownership information, it creates a situation where I don't have the information about whom to ask for permission. I see this as a basic feature; there must be someone who owns the Space.
I usually go and check who created the Space, but this doesn't help because that person may have left the company a long time ago. In the next step, I'll check who the Space administrators are, but this data is sometimes out of date as well.
If users organize their Spaces well, then they have a main page with team information, and most of the time, this helps to solve the problem. It is better to have the option to assign an owner rather than not having this feature.
This is a great feature and finally basic functionality implemented. However, there is still a difference between page creator and page owner, and the Content Report Table macro shows the creator not the owner. Maybe this should also be the owner?
@Tiffany Chung Very interesting feature. This is key feature for many key stakeholders and will help them to change the page owner who already left the organisation or team.
@Tiffany Chung Hi Tiffany! Would be great to do this in bulk. Also, if there is a way to change the creator of the page (or to hide them altogether) that would be great. We had an intern move all of our stuff from our previous documentation solution to Confluence, and now his deactivated account name is on every single article. It's not a huge deal, mostly just an aesthetic thing.
Looking forward to being able to specify the current page owner for use in Confluence automations similar to the way {{content.author.fullName}} works to identify the original author. When should we expect to see a corresponding smart value for current owner?
This is great, but practically unusable without ability to query current page owner using REST API. Still only page author/version author are available. In fact, reports become more confusing, when ui shows owner, and any automatic reports - don't
If an employee leaves the company, it will be a nightmare to change the owner of the pages without a bulk change functionality. Not all pages need to have a new owner. It would be nice to filter out pages created by a certain person and then do a bulk change of ownership for those pages.
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