How to bulk reassign pages/space creator from one person who's gone to me?

[Anthony Pena]

Hello

We have many Pages and Space created by someone in my department that is no longer with us, now, all those still showing this person's name when he's no longer with us and he left in a very bad way. So, the Executive asked me to reassign all those pages/spaces to myself in order to remove him from there. Is this possible? If yes, how please?

Thanks, 

Anthony

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anthony Pena and welcome!

Currently this is not possible, see this Suggestion, which you can vote on and watch.

There does not seem to be a firm date on the ability to change owners of Confluence pages. It's currently under development, I am told, and they are hoping that we'll see it on the roadmap at the next update.

HTH,
KGM

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Confluence does not have the concept of a page "owner" - pages belong to the space owners.

The author is not the owner.

The author of a page is the person who created it, and that should never be changed.  You rarely want to destroy the information of who created a document, and it's illegal in a lot of cases too.  The "owner" is a different concept.

You should tell your Executives that the author of a page is an audit item, the ownership is a function of space ownership (for now)

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Mind you @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- that with Confluence Automation, there are use cases where one wants the author of the page to be a current employee of the company. For example, we are looking for a way to keep the pages up to date and will use Automation to notify the page author if a page hasn't changed in 4 months (as long as the page does not have the label 'evergreen' on it). This process will not work very well if some of the authors have left the company. So in this use case, we want to swap out inactive authors for active users.

Just sharing our use case :)