Disable autowatch in Confluence globally Edited

[Jung-Whan Cho]

I'm using Confluence server 6.4.

Is there any way to disable Autowatch in Confluence globally?

Or at least limit to certain space?

Thanks.

[Leo _DEISER_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jung-Whan Cho

In your profile:

Cheers!

[Jung-Whan Cho]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

I meant, when I create a new user,

can that option be disable by default?

[Leo _DEISER_]

Hi,

ok!, for that you have this workaround of Atlassian:

Workaround

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

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 <confluence install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/preferences-default.xml and restart Confluence.

More info here

Cheers!

[Jung-Whan Cho]

Nice information.

Will try this if our company decides to disable autowatch.

Thanks!

[Pierre Herman]

I am using Confluence cloud.

The main reason why we use a tool like Confluence is to AVOID constant email exchanges and yet Conlfluence by default sets the Autowatch "on"...  and apparently it is not possible to GLOBALLY disable it... None... Nada... Zero! We DO NOT WANT EMAILS BY DEFAULT!

Why? But why would you think that I am interested to receive an email every time I edit a page...?

It is by far the most annoying feature... Silly and useless... A massive waste of time to (on top of that) manage the email filter to trash the garbage emails received.