Update content owners in Confluence

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Hi Atlassian Community,

Matthew here from the Confluence Cloud team! I’m writing to share with you that we’ve added the ability to change and transfer ownership of whiteboards, databases, and Smart Links in the content tree. This was previously only available for pages.

We know how important accurate content ownership is for maintaining Confluence as a source of truth, so we’re happy to support this functionality beyond just pages.

How does it work?

When a page, whiteboard, database, or Smart Link in the content tree is created in Confluence, the person who created it also becomes the owner by default. The content item’s owner (or a space or Confluence product admin) can transfer ownership to another user at any time, as a way of indicating who should be the “point person” for the content.

For details on how to change ownership, review our documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/transfer-ownership-of-your-page-to-another-person/ or https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/transfer-ownership-of-a-page-from-one-user-to-another/.

Thanks!

[Dave Mathijs]

@Matthew Machuca How to change the ownership of the space home page without temporarily switiching to another home page?

[Matthew Machuca]

Hi @Dave Mathijs  like mentioned in our docs "It’s not currently possible to transfer ownership of space overview pages or blogs."

So the work around you have found, to temporarily make a different page your space overview, is the best solution at this time.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Matthew Machuca So if I own 4 whiteboards and transfer ownership of the inactive one to my colleague, who owns 1 whiteboard, will that whiteboard be active again?

[Matthew Machuca]

Hi @Barbara Szczesniak  unfortunately no, if you have a Whiteboard that has been marked as inactive and is in view-only, it will remain inactive even if you transfer the ownership of it to someone else with available slots.

[Matt Reiner [K15t]]

Thanks @Matthew Machuca! I love these nice little cleanups of the experience! Here's a sharable video version of the news!

[Matthew Machuca]

@Matt Reiner [K15t]  Amazing! Thanks for sharing!